Dominion’s Fox News Case Was Just the Beginning

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Host Brian Stelter speaks with Stephen Shackelford and Davida Brook, two of the lead attorneys in Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit against Fox. "We have so much work ahead of us," Shackelford says, because even though Fox paid $787.5 million earlier this year to settle the case, Dominion is still suing many other defendants, including Newsmax and Rudy Giuliani. Those cases are "all proceeding towards trial," Brook says. Shackelford says Dominion was "put through hell" by Donald Trump's election lies in 2020 – "hell that continues to this day." Brooks says the ongoing litigation is about "setting the record straight." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, more than six months after the historic settlement between Dominion and Fox, you just must be
0:06.8	chilling on a beach somewhere.
0:08.2	I wish Brian, but sadly no.
0:11.8	I, uh, this may be a good time to tell you that I'm cheating on you with
0:15.8	another screen right now as I review an email that needs to go out to Opposing
0:20.5	Council in the Mike Lindel, OAN, Patrick Byrne, Powell, and Giuliani cases.
0:27.2	The lawsuits continue, but what about you, Steve?
0:29.4	Stephen, you must be on vacation somewhere.
0:31.8	We have so much work ahead of us Brian. I mean we got a
0:34.2	little breather after the settlement but we've got a trial coming up next September
0:38.9	against Newsmax and multiple trials the year after that against five other sets of defendants in
0:44.8	DC so now we've got a long road ahead to finish up this work for Dominion.
0:49.1	You just heard from Stephen Schacford and Debita Brooke, two of the partners at
0:55.8	Susman Godfrey, the law firm that helped Dominion gain justice in the courts
1:01.0	after being defamed by Fox News.
1:04.0	And I'm Brian Stelter. Let me welcome you to Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair.
1:09.0	This week, we're going inside Big Lie accountability, in all the forms it can take. You know, before all the
1:16.7	Trump indictments, before all the Trump trials, there was this groundbreaking moment of
1:21.2	accountability. Dominion voting systems lawsuit against Fox.
1:26.4	So much was unearthed. So much was revealed that I felt compelled to
1:31.1	chronicle at all in a book. And that book, Network of Lies, is coming
1:36.1	out next week, November 14th. I hope you've pre-ordered. Thank you if you have, and if you haven't,
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