about the gop s cheap tricks and, leguizamo does america, john leguizamo joins me to discuss his great brand ne msnbc series celebrating latin excellence in america. i a ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. all right, we start this hour with some majo breaking news, just moments ag nbc news learned that the star of the trial in dominion votin systems civil lawsuit agains fox has now been pushed back one day. it will now start tuesday at 9 am eastern instea of tomorrow morning. now, th cause of the delay is unclea at the moment. that means that in less than 48 hours, dominio will finally square off in court against fox. more than two years after failing a 1. 6 billion-dollar defamatio lawsuit alleging the network knowingly aired disinformation about fraud in the 202 presidential election. dominio not only has to prove that fox made false statements, which i already has done, but also has demonstrated actual malice and that those false statement caused harm. successfully suin fo
states is intentionall difficult. the legal experts believe that dominion has an exceptionally strong case. drink pretrial arguments, judg eric davis found that it i quote, crystal clear that fox statements about dominion ar false, making it an issue that won t be disputed at trial. th judge also took away fox s ability to use neutral reporting privilege and opinio privilege to common defens tactics for news organizations that are facing such lawsuits. that means the jury is left to decide whether fox knew or should have known that claim were false, when the network aired them. and, if so, ho much to owe dominion i damages. dominion said it is i a statement, we welcome al scrutiny of our evidence because it all leads to th same place. fox knowingl spread lies causing enormous damage to an american company.
lawyers, dominion could pretty much say, this is not true. and, just like what noah just said, fox basically just eat this up as a voter, so here. jury here you go. i want to you t find via liability and i wan you to put all the zeroes here when you come to damages. but don t want to be flippant here jury trials, they are a gamble on either side. i don t care what anybody says. that is why people talk about settling. in the fact that this trial isn t getting started until tuesday, the judge has to agree to delay of trial. so there i something going on here that i delaying the start of th trial. the fox, which i thin the spokesperson is just sayin it logistics. but at this point, nobody knows we will find out tomorrow morning. jeremy peters, really quickly, question for you. doe this even matter to fox viewers? are they aware is fox mor concern for their viewers in the reputation or th shareholders and bottom line so, ayman, i think fox is
i think fox is at this kind of come to jesus moment where i they are going to settle - that would mean that fox i saying that i am completel culpable for what i am accused of doing by dominion? you know fox may want to say, i m going to pump this to a jury and blame a jury if a jury comes back and say that i am liabl for defamation and for billion of dollars. but we do know tha jury selection wasn completed. i want to emphasize this. we don t have a swor injury. we don t have that - it will begin on tuesday morning, allegedly at 9:00, an then we are supposed to have a 15-minute recess, and then g into opening statements. yeah. we want to be absolutely clear, we don t kno why it is delayed. so we do no want to speculate for that a all. so thank you so much fo all of that context an clarification, katie. jeremy you have been covering thi case since the beginning. want you to set the table fo us in terms of where both side stand as we go into this trial we know that fox apologized to t
yet in the new congress. host a field hearing about the so-called victims of the crime policies a manhattan d.a. alvi bragg. now, in reality, the hearing i nothing more than an attempt t attack the credibility of th man who is actually trying t hold donald trump accountabl for his alleged crimes and unlike jim jordan, my next guest actually knows a thing o two about new york congresswoman stacey plasket was born in new york, growin up in bushwick, she late served doesn t assistant and district attorney in the bronx and she knows a thing or two about trump because she served as one of the managers of hi second impeachment trial congresswoman plaskett grea to see you. thank you so muc for coming on the show. as someone who has had experience with new york crime cases, wha do you make of jim jordan al of a sudden caring about new york city s crime policies and bringing the circus to town, s to speak