Gretchen Carlson’s reaction to Fox’s settlement with Dominion
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
4.1 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson, who reached a $20 million settlement with Fox's parent company after alleging sexual harassment and retaliation joins Anderson to talk about Fox’s settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. And, Russia launched 60 airstrikes in the past 24 hours, in and around the beleaguered eastern city of Bakhmut, according to the Ukrainian military. During the strikes, CNN's Nick Paton Walsh and his producer were just feet away from being hit by a missile.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, the shockwave sent by the decision of the Fox Corporation to settle a defamation |
| 0:05.3 | lawsuit brought by Dominion voting systems continued today, Fox will pay Dominion a record |
| 0:10.1 | $787.5 million. |
| 0:13.2 | While Fox News was largely silent on the massive payout, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer |
| 0:17.4 | was not. |
| 0:19.8 | Rupert Murdoch's legacy is forever sealed as the network that sought to undermine American |
| 0:25.8 | democracy one prime time segment at a time. |
| 0:30.6 | And Dominion isn't done either. |
| 0:32.3 | They have pending lawsuits against the right-wing networks, OAN and Newsmax as well as against |
| 0:36.4 | allies of the former president Rudy Giuliani, Michael and Dale and Sydney Powell. |
| 0:40.1 | Now in a moment we're going to talk to former Fox anchor and Krelson in her first interview |
| 0:44.4 | since the settlement, but before we do it is worth noting that Fox's legal jeopardy |
| 0:48.6 | is far from over. |
| 0:49.9 | The voting technology company Smartmatic is suing the network for $2.7 billion for |
| 0:55.4 | what they say were over a hundred falls in this leading on our statements about them. |
| 1:00.5 | And Fox also faces the very real possibility of lawsuits from shareholders, which will |
| 1:04.7 | explain more about in a moment. |
| 1:06.6 | First, former Fox anchor Gretchen Krelson who reached a $20 million settlement with Fox's |
| 1:11.0 | parent company after a living sexual harassment and retaliation. |
| 1:14.7 | Thank you so much for being with us. |
| 1:15.7 | Thanks for having me, Adam. |
| 1:16.7 | Were you surprised by the settlement? |
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