nbc news that jack smith has a tape of donald trump talking about a classified document he took with him from the white house. an audio recording of the former president talking to aides about iran, and a document he knew was classified. detailing a potential u.s. attack. cnn reports that according to their sources trump allegedly acknowledged that its classification limited his ability to share it. nbc news has not heard the recording but our source tells us that it was played during grand jury testimony. donald trump has denied any wrong doing. ken dilanian is with us to explain what we know. andrew weissmann is here to explain the significance. and vaughn hillyard will join us in just a moment from the campaign trail with how things are going on the road as donald trump tries to block out ron desantis. what exactly are the two men saying or not saying about this new reporting? joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. so, ken, what do
where fox news network has reached a last minute settlement, in a defamation case brought against it by a voting machine company. the case is linked to claims that the 2020 us presidential election was rigged against donald trump. fox news agreed to pay dominion $787.5 million. with the settlement, fox will avoid a high profile trial. dominion voting systems sued fox news for $1.6 billion, so they actually settled for lesss than half of what they were asking for. let s remind you of the background to all of this. this all came about because dominion claimed that their reputation was damaged after fox knowingly spread lies about its voting machines after the 2020 us election. they were repeating claims by then president donald trump who had falsely claimed that dominion voting machines rigged the election to favour winnerjoe biden. dominion said fox hosts amplified the baseless allegations , but at the time, fox claimed it was newsworthy. this is how dominion responded to set
way he said this, the words that he used because when we ve heard donald trump talk about potential crimes in the past, the words he uses are very specific, and they re a bit squishy, and i haven t heard this call, so i m not entirely sure exactly which words he used, but is there something that he could say that would maybe let him get out of something like this, where it would not be a smoking gun, perhaps a gun, but maybe not one that was smoking? so, you know, people had speculated that he may have just been lying, in other words that he made this all up, that he didn t actually have this document in his possession, that he was just bluffing, and i think that obviously would fall into the category of a gun but not a smoking gun because it still would be helpful to the prosecution because it would show that he knew that it was improper to have it because the reporting is that he said this
iceberg right now. what concerns do you - iceberg right now. what concerns do you have i iceberg right now. what i concerns do you have on how iceberg right now. what - concerns do you have on how it may be used because of the brings up many questions about music and creativity? absolutely. i mean, art in itself is always imitating and inspired by other arts so it brings up a lot of different questions and a lot of generative music that is possible. in this case, this is using the vocal style of famous artists and replicating that. that is why it is so aggressively been taken down. i think there will be a question of how much generative ai is ok and has artistic license and how much of that is just copycatting anything someone else? in this case, if it is a similar case to this, we were using the artist name and their likeness as a selling point for the song, i think that is likely to take down but other uses a bit squishy. how do you think this surge in ai generated music will impact
class whites, the orthgoes and maybe you can keep governor romney from a big win tomorrow night and maybe keep him outright down the road in south carolina. you can be certain this romney is greedy and heartless will be central to the obama strategy if he wins the nomination. will it work? truth be told, that s a tough one. there are giant success stories in romney s bain record. both sides would have good examples. remember this, politically, those down scale working class voters were a giant obama weakness back in 2008 and remain a big soft spot now. what about the republican attacks? truth is, nothing else has worked and the clock is ticking. so class warfare and bashing the free market has at least a temporary home in the gop. for more on this, let s turn to two guests following the story closely. in new hampshire, cnn s chief business correspondent ali velshi. nicolas, i called it squishy. romney says over time 100,000