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Enquirer." ami, the publisher of "the enquirer" has flipped on the president. they admitted to accepting a payment to silence a adversary of trump. at the suggestion of one more members or agents of a candidates 2016 presidential campaign to ensure a woman did not publicize allegations about that candidate before the 2016 presidential election and therefore influence the election. who knows what else the company has already or will soon tell prosecutors? this all comes as the presidents former l...

We expect any minute shell be entering her guilty plea. >> much more to come, and really interested to hear more from coming inside the court. thank you so much. i really appreciate it. >> at the same time, president trumps legal times are growing darker and deeper. as another longtime ally has turned on him. federal prosecutors say ami, the publisher of "national enquirer" tabloid let by a longtime friend of the president, has flipped on the peds. after two years of denials, the company is now ...

To cohen, is that these payments could very well just be the tip of the iceberg in terms of any other, in cohens words, dirty deeds, that he and the president may have been involved with. >> of course. you can only go back to cohens own secret recording where he talks about all of the things, all of the stuff that david pecker would need to know and resolve in case he was hit by a bus, for example. >> right, they were talking about getting all of it away from david pecker. they were worried if d...

Im dave briggs. >> im christine romans. it is thursday, december 13th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. a three-year prison sentence for the presidents former lawyer, michael cohen. and another bombshell. bombshell for an already shaken white house, prosecutors striking a non-prosecution agreement with ami. the parent company of "the national enquirer." >> in exchange, ami admits making $150,000 to silence karen mcdougal. part of the effort to bury bad press about donald trump. michael cohen recorded a co...

Joining me for his take, neal katyal. neal, do you agree with senator schiff and justice blumenthal that the justice department needs to reexamine its guidelines that a sitting president cant be indicted? >> i do. lets put this in context. so, you know, i think as your last guest showed, theres kind of been a sputtering defense by %-p had nothing to do with those payments. that was proven false. then his second defense was i didnt have the criminal intent to do so but now michael cohen and today...

There are definite factual differences here, and, you know, im not one frankly who thinks that the rise and fall of donald trump and his presidency should be on the basis of campaign finance violations. but right now the southern district has staked out a very clear position that these were felonies and that he was involved -- more than involved in them. he directed them. so this is wholly different from the edwards case factually, and it is -- and, look, every indication is that the special cou...

While trump said flynn didnt lie. >> i have a feeling that maybe he didnt. hes a tougher kind of a guy than cohen, but they took a general that they said didnt lie, and they convinced him he did lie, and they made some kind of a deal. >> reporter: thats precisely what flynn pleady guilty, to -- pleading guilty, to and now hes awaiting sentencing. >> reporter: that sentencing is next week and its unclear what that sentence will be. the special counsel has recommended no jail time for michael flyn...

Telling on some level. in cohens court filings, prosecutors mentioned several unnamed trump organization executives and employees involved in the scheme to pay cohen back for the hush money payments. we know from the tape and we know from reporting one of those is allen weisselberg, the cfo. hes cooperating. who else? the only people who can authorize those kind of payments are the president himself, the children, or the organization cfo, allen weisselberg. and hes cooperating. who else or what ...

The stuff, after the president asked if it was just about the two women. what other stuff? the president is said to be seething after the sentencing. calling cohen a liar. well, if thats true, then the company behind the enquirer is lying, too, because just out today, they admit to acting with his campaign to break the law. and investigators hinted there may be more there. what more might a.m.i. ceo david pecker spill? he is cooperating. could he be even more crucial than michael cohen? well tel...

>> in exchange, ami admits making $150,000 to silence karen mcdougal. part of the effort to bury bad press about donald trump. michael cohen recorded a conversation he had with the then candidate about that payoff. >> i have spoken to allen about how to set the whole thing up with funding. >> so what are we going to pay? >> yes. and its all the stuff. >> allen weisselberg is the cfo of the trump organization. he was granted immunity. news of the deal with ami came moments after cohens sentencing...