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
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
now, all along fox has denie dominion s allegation that publicly argued that the cases but the rights of a free press on the line, and in a ne statement the network said dominion s lawsuit is political crusade in search of a financial windfall, but th real cost would be cherished first amendment rights. just last week, judge davis sai that he was imposing a sanctio on the network and would ver likely start an investigatio into whether fox s legal tea had deliberately withhel evidence, scolding the lawyers for not being straightforwar with him. now, that review cam after fox lawyers disclosed in court that rupert murdoch is a executive officer of fox, afte he repeatedly claimed that h did not have an official title at the network. nbc news has confirmed that fox jus formally apologized to judge davis, taking responsibility for the quote, misunderstanding. also las week, abby grossberg, th former fox producer who is accusing the network o pressuring her to give false testimony, filed an
accusing the network o pressuring her to give false testimony, filed an amende legal complaint accusing her e employer of also failing t turn over audio recordings o conversations with leading 202 election deniers that coul hurt fox s defense fox has previously said that grossberg s lawsuits are riddled with false allegations and says its lawyers never acted improperly the network far aired grossber after she initiated th litigation fox says that she was fired fo divulging private information. my conch my colleague, ale wagner - referenced by abby grossberg take a listen. and going to be asking yo for as much evidence as you ca tell us about these lawsuits whatever you can tell us i terms of evidence would be really helpful okay, great. i can tell you exactly what we have. perfect and what about the software, this dominion software that s a little harder
a quid pro quo, bribery, extortion or whatever, by withholding a meeting or security atssistance as a way o pressuring ukranian president zelensky to investigate the president s political rival, former vp biden. for the president s political benefit in the upcoming election. the secondary allegation that has been levied is whether president trump obstructed congress during the inquiry. the evidence obtained during the inquiry does not support either of those allegations. the republican report of evidence lays out the reasons in more detail, but i will summarize. i will begin with the substantive allegation about an abuse of power. the inquiry has returned no direct evidence that president trump withheld a meeting or security assistance in order to