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Deadline: White House

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News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

John Heilemann – in for Nicolle Wallace – discusses the massive settlement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems as other parties continue to attempt to hold Fox accountable for spreading the Big Lie, breaking developments in both Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s investigation and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s probe, the Supreme Court’s delay in making a ruling on medication abortion, how red states have become laboratories for authoritarianism, and more. Joined by: Davida Brook, Jeremy Peters, Laurence Tribe, Greg Bluestein, Harry Litman, Mini Timmaraju, Barbara McQuade, Fatima Goss Graves, Nick Suplina, Ben Rhodes, Charlie Sykes, and Cornell Belcher.

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0:00.0	Hello, Ha and Namaste everyone.
0:09.1	It's 4 p.m. here in New York City on John Highlam in Inferno, Kuala Loss.
0:14.0	$787.5 million.
0:19.1	Not pocket change and the precise price.
0:22.9	The Fox News is now paying for our repeatedly and wantonly aired the fall since cities
0:27.5	in Sanieri claims about the 2020 election out of the mouth of the disgraced, twice impeached,
0:33.1	now indicted, former president, and the amen chorus of enablers of betters, sycophants,
0:38.7	totes, lap dogs and co-conspirators on his own legal team and at Fox News itself.
0:44.6	That $787.5 million settlement, it's one of the largest ever for a defamation case in
0:51.2	US history and it's by no means the end of the pursuit for accountability from those who
0:56.4	knowingly, willingly, readily spread the big lie.
1:00.8	As the New York Times notes, quote, Dominion voting systems did more on Tuesday than settle
1:05.0	a lawsuit against Fox News for $787.5 million.
1:08.5	I'll also set the tone for the many related defamation cases that it has filed.
1:13.8	The targets of Dominions remaining lawsuits, few of which have deep pockets and legal
1:17.8	firepower at Fox's level, will likely take a cue from Dominion and Fox's face off legal
1:23.4	experts said.
1:24.4	Dominion has six more defamation lawsuits on deck involving far-right media outlets such
1:29.8	as Newsmax, One American News, elections in IR, such as Rudy Giuliani, Cindy Powell,
1:35.4	and of course our favorite, my pillow guy, Mike Lindell.
1:38.4	As for Fox News itself and the Murdoch family, this could be just the start of their legal
1:42.9	woes NBC News reporting last week, but a Fox corporation shareholder is suing the Murdochs
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