to discuss his great brand new msnbc series celebrating latin excellence in america. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s ge started. all right, we start this hou with some major breaking news, just moments ago nbc new learned that the start of th trial in dominion voting systems civil lawsuit agains fox has now been pushed back one day. it will now start tuesday at 9 am eastern instead of tomorrow morning. now, the cause of the delay is unclear at the moment. that means that unless in 48 hours, dominion will finally square off in court agains fox. more than two years afte failing a 1.6 billion-dollar defamation lawsuit alleging th network knowingly aire disinformation about fraud i the 2020 presidential election dominion not only has to prove that fox made false statements which it already has done, but also has demonstrated actual malice and that those fals statements caused harm successfully suing for defamation in the united state is intentionally difficult the legal experts belie
the day where that actuall came to light. and it has already in the tria that hasn t even started kitty, dominion will need to, as i mentioned there a convince the jury that fox acted with quote, actual malice talk to us a little throug what this means, how difficult it will be to prove. so, this is why everybody keeps on saying, you are never seeing a case for defamation really go to trial, and yo certainly don t see one that i allegedly the strong on behalf of dominion. actual malice, it is kind of one of these things that you can reel off the legal definition and aim and, you di a great job in your set up t this block in terms of what th definition is. but having a jury really understand it is going to be the nuance trick for dominion. it is the idea, as you said, that fox put forth fruits of you are s to consume information that they knew was false, which frankly, with judge davis s ruling on thos motions, dominion s going in it already -