A potentially massive story is brewing that connects Donald Trump, Stormy Daniels, Fox News, and potentially illegal actions by Fox network executives. On March 11, attorney Nancy Erika Smith appeared on The Beat with Ari Melber on MSNBC to discuss the publicly available facts relating to her client, former Fox News reporter Diane Falzone, who had the Stormy Daniels story before the 2016 election and was told to “let it go” by Ken LaCorte, a now-former Fox News executive.

Falzone is currently prohibited from talking about the case because she sued the network in an unrelated discrimination case, and her settlement came with a nondisclosure agreement that prohibits her from speaking out. She explained in a Vanity Fair op-ed why she accepted the terms of the settlement.

After the story’s publication, my phone lit up with text messages. After all, I was that reporter. But there isn’t much that I can say about the incident in Mayer’s story, because I am subject to an N.D.A. In March 2018, I settled a lawsuit that I brought against Fox News claiming gender and disability discrimination and retaliation. The settlement contained a non-disclosure clause. I was in the middle of a high-risk pregnancy and wanted to move on with my life.

LaCorte denies he killed the story because Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch favored Donald Trump, instead saying he did so because it was “not publishable.” Falzone and her attorney are asking for Fox News to release Falzone from the part of her nondisclosure agreement relating to the Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels story so the full facts can become known.

Stormy Daniels’ original attorney, Keith Davidson, has been speaking out this week and providing new details about the settlement. In an interview with Chris Cuomo on CNN, he made the case that the settlement was absolutely an effort to conceal the story from the public in the weeks before the election, because the Trump camp knew about Stormy Daniels’ efforts to tell her story, beginning in 2011 and continuing all the way until 2016. Davidson said that as soon as the Access Hollywood tape was released, Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, was on the phone with him to buy and kill the story as soon as possible.