Topic: Intelligence Briefing

Lawyers are increasingly facing disciplinary action for filing legal briefs containing fictitious quotes and citations generated by AI. NPR reports on a Nebraska Supreme Court case where an attorney was grilled for using "hallucinated" case law. Legal scholars have documented over 1,200 instances of courts catching erroneous AI material, leading some jurisdictions to require lawyers to label all AI-assisted documents.

A federal judge declined to sanction Michael Cohen after he accidentally submitted fake case citations generated by artificial intelligence in a legal filing. The judge described the incident as embarrassing but did not end Cohen's supervised release stemming from his 2018 convictions.

Representative Eric Swalwell discusses reports that Bernie Sanders was also briefed on Russian efforts to assist his campaign. The hosts interpret the timing of these leaks as a "Plan B" by the Democratic establishment to disqualify Sanders as his momentum grows.

NBC News correspondent Cynthia McFadden reported that U.S. intelligence chiefs did not actually brief Donald Trump on the specific salacious contents of the Steele dossier during a classified meeting. This contradicts earlier reports and suggests the information was only an unverified addendum to the main report on Russian interference.

ABC News reporting is criticized for its juxtaposition of House Speaker Paul Ryan calling for Hillary Clinton to lose access to classified information while showing footage of Donald Trump arriving for his second intelligence briefing. The hosts analyze this as a form of subtle propaganda that highlights the contrast between the two candidates' current standing with federal agencies.