Welcome to the lead. We have some breaking news for you. I'm Jake Tapper.

Moments ago we learned there is a settlement, a settlement and the high

stakes trial between Dominion voting systems and Fox. Dominion was suing Fox

for $1.6 billion dollars. The trial was expected to be a barn burner. Check out

the long line to get into the Delaware courtroom. Court documents revealing

how the most prominent Fox News stars and executive privately mocked Donald

Trump's election lies while promoting them publicly.

Quote, the wind tells me I'm a ghost.

You're listening to civics 101. I'm Nick Capitice. I'm Hannah McCarthy.

And today we are talking about defamation, specifically a breakdown of the

terms and legalities surrounding the recent lawsuit, Dominion voting

systems versus Fox News network. We are going to cover such salacious

words as slander, liable, actual malice and also some more benign

sounding words like discovery and settlement. Okay, Nick, before we get into

the definitions, we always say that we love talking about court cases because

they are at their foundation stories. What is the story of this lawsuit?

It seems like yesterday, Hannah, election night, November 3, 2020.

You remember that night? I do.

It's been clear for a while that the former vice president is in the lead in

Arizona, and was most likely to win the state. It has been in the

category that we call knowable, but not callable for about an hour.

It would take several days until the tally was final, but Joe Biden defeats

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