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Things she was seeking. >> well today president trump denied paying ami. here he is. >> i dont think they even paid to any money to that tabloid. i dont think we pead-- we made payment to that tabloid. i dont think we made a payment. >> well however, just a month ago the "wall street journal" reports that michael cohen assured mr. pecker, the ami boss, that trump would reimburse him for the payment for mcdougal and pecker calls off the reimbursement because lawyer warned him it would undermine a...

Organization to be paid for legal fees. now, we dont know how much of these details trump knew or didnt know, but putting him in that room suggests, one, he may have infact directed it. but certainly the fact pattern we know to date suggests a criminal -- absolutely that he may be involved in the crime. this is the president of the united states of america. >> daniel goldman, the president keep uses -- keeps using that word "civil" to describe this. basically same question to you. how does this ...

Which was between him and daivi pecker and david peckers counsel. >> david pecker is the ceo of ami. here is what ami told the wall street journal about the payments back in 2016 right before the election. quote, ami has not paid people to kill damaging stories about mr. trump. except thats not what they told federal prosecutors when they struck a cooperation deal. quote, ami admitted that it did make the $150,000 payment in concert with the candidates presidential campaign and in order to ensur...

>> national security, it could be national security but it also could be obstruction of justice. and its part of a larger pattern. a total culture of corruption. we now know that the trump campaign was involved and alin some illegal actions, ami, all these different things and this all has to be investigated by the special counsel, by the congress as part of our oversight responsibility. and the essential question comes back to what they asked in watergate, what did the president know and when d...

President obama getting fined for that rather large sum and what donald trump is accused of doing with these hush money payments? >> i think that the big difference here is that obama km pa -- campaign was running almost a billion dollar operation. there was no evidence of wrong doing. as soon as they recognized their error, they fixed it. these are minor technical vie lag -- violations. nobody is trying to evade the law. thats not the same thing we see alleged in this case where we saw michael ...

Cohen in his varied statements have talked about the fact he believed the president was knowledgeable about what was happening and he was making a choice to try to protect himself and the campaign at a critical time. the white house will try to discredit cohen in every way they can and use instances where hes admitted being a liar against him. its a murky mess when you considers the president at many times earlier on talked about the loyalty and friendship and the goodness of cohen. its a thorny...

There was a period of time where for pecker, ami and national enquirer, jared kushner was their new michael cohen. >> talking about exposure to jared kushner, are you hearing anything when it comes to him? >> i think thats something well continue to report on. obviously, we know that, we were the first to break here, my colleagues at the white house that there was preliminary sort of inquiry or investigation into jared kushner. thats something we will continue to follow up on and well bring more...

Made a calculated decision to find a new point person in the west wing. the person they settled on was jared kushner who in our story today we report that kushner and pecker had several considerations and taconsideratn conversations and talked regularly. the conversations ranged everything from relations with saudi arabia because ami, mump like jared kushner and the trump administration were cozying up to mbs and petty and tabloids centric as the dirt that the enquirer had on your msnbc colleagu...

Up more to be revealed in the public in time. listen to this quote. im committed to proving my integrity and ensuring that history will not remember me as the villain of this story. theres lots of other news breaking in this drama with a.m.i.s cooperation today. the feds say, listen to this language. as long as they continue to cooperate, a.m.i. wont be prosecuted. what does that mean? that suggests that it wasnt just about corroborating what cohen told them. what else could be there? what e...

Yesterday even in court, cohens attorney said cohen is prepared to do this. he is prepared to continue his cooperation. >> it is very important. on top of that, there is another big cooperator with the government on this one, and that is ami, which is of course parent company of the "national enquirer." david pecker ran the "national enquirer." overly overtly friendly with the president up until a point and now a flip. >> we knew david pecker had been given immunity. what we learned yesterday is...