Welcome to Begg to Differ, the Bullworks' weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil

conversation across the political spectrum from center left to center right.

I'm Sunny Bunch, culture editor at the Bullwork, and I'm sitting in for Mona Cher in this week.

She's off, she's enjoying her vacation, but hopefully you can hang with me.

Joining me are regulars Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal,

Linda Chavez with the Nascannon Center.

Damon Linker who writes notes from the middle ground on Substack.

You can normally find me hosting the podcast the Bullwork goes to Hollywood and across the movie aisle.

We're talking news today, which is always fun for me.

Welcome, everybody. Thanks for being on the show.

Hello.

Hi.

Good to be here as always.

Let's start off with what would have been the big news of the week and the upcoming weeks as a matter of

fact. And that would be Fox News itself.

At the last minute, the network bought itself out of the embarrassment of having to have

Rupert Murdoch, Tucker Carlson, and Sean Hannity testify in Dominion Voting Systems defamation case.

First Amendment attorneys are calling the record-setting $787.5 million settlement deal as a blowout

in Dominion's favor, but somewhere disappointed we wouldn't get to see the full Fox humiliation.

All they my cards out on the table first, I feel like this is a pretty straightforward win.

Fox gets hurt and hurt badly.

I'm sorry, like $787 million, that's a lot of money no matter how much they have in reserve,

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