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I wanted to make sure we cover this important story.

It's genuinely crazy, some of the details. Let's put this up there on the screen.

So ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million to Donald Trump's presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit.

So the reason why this is so extraordinary is that it almost never

happened that you have defamation lawsuits which are settled involving public officials.

The reason why is that the bar is so incredibly high to prove defamation. Nonetheless, ABC News agreed to this settlement on Saturday

after a quote-unquote statement by George Stephanopoulos that happened on ABC News some months ago

with respect to the E. Jean Carroll case. Now, if you look actually into the details, the settlement came right before

there was a deposition that was going to go through as well as discovery, which would have required

Stephanopoulos turning over all of his emails, deposition of all the people that were involved

in the segment. Now, the reason why, again,

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