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formerly president and would be the largest story in the political universe if it were about anyone else who has fewer legal problems. that is my factual introduction to the ongoing civil defamation and sexual assault/rape trial for donald trump. e. jean carroll alleges donald trump raped her in the 1990s. today is the sixth day of the trial and we are learning a lot as we are right in the heart of it. the jury also heard in a way from trump himself, but not live. instead, this jury, which is assessing these very serious allegations, heard from trump in a deposition that was taped in...

Designed to have a politically useful effect on audiences, we realized that was part of what russia did in their attack on us. it wasn't the biggest part of what they did, but it was alarming that they radically upscaled over the course of 2015 and 2016 this sort of counterfeiting of the news process. so that became part of our national discussion about what russia had done, what russia harnessed to try to interfere in our election in order to benefit donald trump. and the term that was most easily and specifically and conveniently applied to that phenomenon, the phrase fake news, because thes...

Enhance divisions among democrats or make democrats feel like it wasn't worth it to vote. these made-up stories were also just sort of brutalizing made-up outraged stories about terrible bar barrism to make you feel like we were at the end of the line in terms of human beings being able to live alongside one another. when we came to understand what russia did in the 2016 election, those made-up false stories designed to have a politically useful effect on audiences, we realized that was part of what russia did in their attack on us. it wasn't the biggest part of what they did, but it was alarm...

Fake news process and then kick it into over drive. nbc news jacob ward is joining me now. i want to talk about the implications of this. obviously if artificial intelligence is made to be like human intelligence or emphasize the things that human brains can do but faster. it is important to understand, it is a non-profit organization, trying to create some sort of standard and free work and governing the responsible development of artificial intelligence in the future. they looked at many problems of a.i., the big one of which it is essential lily amplification. so one reason you would want t...

Reason to be concerned? >> well i think there is legitimate reason to be concerned because you are seeing the text messages that -- that do show a buy as but we have to remember that peter strzok get losts in the news process, that he also said bad things about hillary clinton and about bernie sanders. so it wasn't just isolated to donald trump. we also have to keep in mind that peter strzok wanted to testify to clear his name. he's been under assault from the gop and from the far right for the past five to six months since the text mess ajz came out. he wanted to go out there and prove that h...