Hey folks, Crete here. ABC News and host George Stephanopoulos have settled a defamation lawsuit brought by President-elect Donald Trump.

ABC agreed to pay $15 million toward Trump's future presidential museum and issue an apology.

In other news, FBI director Chris Ray announced he would resign at the end of President Biden's

term, setting up an expected clash between the Senate and Trump over his nominee for the role Cash Patel,

and a New York judge rejected Trump's effort to overturn his Manhattan conviction due to presidential immunity.

Joyce fans and I discuss all that and more on a new episode of the Cafe Insider podcast.

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Let's go to the question of falsity, right?

Was what George Stephanopoulos said, and he said it again and again and again, false?

So one commentator, along with a number of other commentators, I think with respect, gets it a little bit wrong.

So one commentator said, public figures like Trump are held to a higher standard of proof and defamation cases,

so he should have been required to prove that ABC and Stephanopoulos knew calling Trump a rapist was a lie

or had recklessly failed to investigate whether that was true.

And I think in some of the debate and discussion, people have focused on whether or not Trump could accurately be called a rapist.

That's not what Stephanopoul said in the interview of Nancy Mace.

He says repeatedly again and again, and I'll give you some examples.

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