Floyd Abrams on the Fox-Dominion settlement

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In a stunning 11th-hour settlement, just as opening arguments were set to start, Fox chose to cut a huge check, rather than face a jury, for knowingly lying about the Dominion Voting machine company and the 2020 US presidential election. Dominion’s CEO says it’s a big step forward for democracy. But Fox does not have to admit on its air that it defamed Dominion Voting Systems. Floyd Abrams is the doyen of First Amendment law in the US and speaks to Christiane about the impact this will have on America’s democracy. Also on today's show: Hamid Khalafallah, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy; screenwriter Anna Winger; journalist Mike Giglio To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	This was not the case of a media company pursuing the truth and making a mistake. They knew.
0:16.0	The price of willful lies is a $787 million check enough to restore faith in US democracy.
0:24.3	America's preeminent First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams weighs in on Fox's huge defamation
0:30.5	settlement. Also ahead. The power struggle between two warring generals
0:35.3	plunges Sudan deeper into chaos, derailing its dreams of democracy. Plus...
0:41.3	Trump speaking even more openly in the terms and frames of the
0:45.8	military, the military groups. Coded message. Hurry Sri
0:49.4	of us and asked the journalist Mike Giglio why Donald Trump is launching his re-election campaign
0:55.1	in a place synonymous with extremism. Oh, Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London where news of
1:19.9	the Fox settlement has made headlines.
1:22.6	Telling lies about the 2020 election
1:24.8	has cost Fox nearly $800 million.
1:28.2	It was a stunning 11th hour settlement,
1:30.8	just as opening arguments were set to start, Fox choosing to cut a huge
1:35.0	check rather than face a jury for knowingly lying about the Dominion Voting
1:40.2	Company and the 2020 US presidential election.
1:44.2	Dominion CEO John Pulos says it is a big step forward for democracy.
1:50.5	The fact is that they published falsehoods about us and it wasn't just once or twice
1:56.2	it wasn't just on one day or two days. It was 20 statements made over two and a half
2:02.1	months and this was not the case of a media
2:06.4	company pursuing the truth and making a mistake they knew and at the end of the day
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