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Mcdougal. prosecutors say ami admitted to paying mcdougal in coordination with trumps campaign to keep her from publicizing damaging allegations about trump before the election. it is important to remember that earlier this year, both michael cohen and president trump denied that payments were ever made to stormy daniels or karen mcdougal. obviously, those were blatant lies. so please follow along with me. you want to pay attention to this. its important. im going to take you through the evoluti...

Trump campaign. how will republicans respond to this? new information, we remind you. joining us now, rick santorum, former republican senator and presidential candidate. thank you for being with us. in our last episode of as the senator turns, and this was prior to the ami revelation. let me read you what you told chris prior to ami entering into this deal. you said, he could have been paying off for a variety of reasons. thats not what ami says now. let me read you from the court documents. it...

Presidential candidate we endorsed i think in history, this is our editorial judgment, were allowed to make these decisions. we can decide we dont like hillary clinton and were going to write about her in this way and write about donald trump in that way. thats what they were saying consistently. and now this gives light to that in a major way. >> pecker, long-time buddy with donald trump, all the trips to mar-a-lago, the fact that years ago he was nudging trump to run for president or created t...

Non-prosecution agreement between federal prosecutors and ami. it was just disclosed yesterday. the company admitted making $150,000 payment in concert with the campaign. it says pecker, cohen and at least one other member of the campaign met in august 2015 to identify negative stories about trump, that they could then purchase and not publish, and according to the source the other member in that room was donald trump, and so this certainly is significant also in the wake of michael cohen, his f...

Now you have a corporation and its executives, plural apparently, who were in meetings with candidate trump and cohen, and a lot of conversations -- and we know from the reporting that there are e-mails, there are texts, so forth. we dont know if there are tapes on it, but there is now suddenly a lot of corroboration of the facts here that go beyond just what cohen says happened. >> right. and we know the tape that weve had of cohen talking to trump about this and saying that it was all being se...

Agreement a company makes with prosecutors so they dont do future misdeeds, they dont commit the same crime. certainly ami promised not to do this again, and its hard to imagine how this type of situation would exist again. her suggestion is this cooperation agreement is about more, its about further prosecutions, maybe the president but maybe not just the president. look at the trump organization and look at the trump campaign. do you see it that way? >> i think thats certainly possible in one ...

>> well, of course, partly we dont know so were speculating. >> right. >> what we do know is that cohen has said in his plea agreement that he coordinated his activities with senior officials of the campaign. presumably a.m.i. was in those discussions as well because part of the deal here is that a.m.i. would purchase the story, front the money, which is itself a campaign violation because its corporate funds, it cant be used for this, would be reimbursed. there was an agreement all drawn up, a ...

Payoff. >> i have spoken to allen about how to set the whole thing up with funding. 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 for crimes which included arranging payments and lying to congress about the trump tower project in moscow during the campaign. cohens advisor speaking out stating cohens false testimony was shared with the white house and its possible presi...

The president is said to be seegting 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 tell you why that could be. so much to test. weve done the work. lets get after it. this is ...

Committing an illegal act by getting involved -- by getting involved with this. you know, the whole point, it now appears, of these payments, the money to stormy daniels, the money to karen mcdougal, was to protect donald trump on the eve of the election from two very embarrassing stories which given the closeness of the election may very well have won the election for donald trump. so figuring out all the cast of characters in -- in these payments will be enormously important for mueller. >> ri...