The Defamation Trial That Never Was
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The defamation trial brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News was called off after both parties agreed to settle for $787.5 million at the last minute. Crooked news contributor Max Fisher joins us to break down what happened and what comes next.
And in headlines: The white homeowner who shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl turned himself in to Missouri authorities, a Russian judge ruled that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich must remain in pretrial detention, and Nebraska lawmakers passed the first bill in their 90-day legislative session.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, April 19th. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Priyanka Arabindi. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm wanting to tell everyone this is what a day where we are busy comprehending this |
| 0:13.4 | flurry of new celebrity couples. |
| 0:15.3 | Yeah, Timothy Shalame and Kylie Jenner, Bill Hater and Allie Wong, Shawn Mendes and |
| 0:21.4 | Camilla Cabello, part two. |
| 0:23.4 | I don't know, all these. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm not into it. |
| 0:26.8 | I can't play Yawning to it at all. |
| 0:29.3 | I'm doing you rich people. |
| 0:30.9 | Rich celebrities do what they want. |
| 0:37.7 | On today's show, the 84 year old white man who shot Ralph Yarl, a black teenager, has turned |
| 0:42.9 | himself in to authorities in Kansas City, Missouri a day after he was charged with first degree |
| 0:47.6 | assault and armed action. |
| 0:49.8 | Plus, life goes on on the great Pacific garbage patch. |
| 0:54.4 | But first, the Dominion Fox trial ground to a halt yesterday before we even heard opening |
| 0:59.2 | statements when the two parties reached an agreement and settled on a $787.5 million |
| 1:05.5 | payout from Fox with no apology on air, which in my mind means that Fox kind of won |
| 1:12.0 | and our democracy lost. |
| 1:14.5 | Before we dig into the details of this settlement, let's do a little bit of a refresher. |
| 1:18.4 | Back in 2021, Dominion voting system sued Fox for $1.6 billion for spreading lies about |
| 1:24.3 | the 2020 election and blaming the Dominion voting machines for malfunctioning, which |
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