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Ami is cooperating. >> yes, they are. >> and pecker is cooperating. you told me you never thought he would flip. you thought he would stand by the president, but at the same time, he looks out for himself. >> and proof positive, look whats happening here. him or trump. and in any situation, he will always win. thats what hes done. >> let me ask you this, because the presidents essential argument here of many arguments and some of them contradictory, is basically cohen did it, or cohen as the law...

A bullet for trump at some point and now has turned on him, obviously facing his own legal jeopardy, he has done that. and allen weissenburg who is also cooperating as they are making more of a case against trumps business dealings with russians, i think these are devastating moments. people who are so close to trump completely turning on him. not only a cause for deep, deep stress for trump, as we move forward, but just a remarkable development for somebody who prizes loyalty the way the presid...

Put up the full screen for you, barrett, to bring you in on this. in or about august 2015, david pecker, the chairman and ceo of a.m.i. met with like l cohen and at least one other member of the campaign. why is there a campaign person involved in something that was just a private matter? barrett, my point is this. i dont know if its an f.e.c. violation. i know michael cohen pled guilty to it. i think he did that for several reasons. and i dont care. i care about the lying to federal prosecutors...

Chris, well get into the interview itself in a second. when you hear trump say "i dont think we made a payment to ami", the but is that we know now that ami admitted to making this $150,000 payment. so, chris, do the math for me. >> not just admitting to making the payment, brooke. if you read the southern district of new york press reese lease, admitted to making it in concert with the trump campaign. they were coordinating a payment with the trump cam pan paign to silence a woman who alleged s...

Matter. >> number one, its not a campaign finance violation. its not even under campaign finance. if it was, its not even a violation. number three, its a civil matter. >> again, the facts, whether this is civil or criminal is not in doubt. you cannot plead guilty in court to criminal charges that are not criminal. here is trumps response when asked about the separate deal prosecutors cut with the parent company of the "national enquirer," admitting that they paid karen mcdougal to silence her a...

Convinced now this was an effort to do a favor for donald trump in the last few months of the presidential race. >> unfortunately, yes. >> we now know, of course, that is true. back with jeff toobin, laura coates and gloria borger. jeff, this admission by ami today, how big a deal is it? you spoke to david pecker last year in an article for the "new yorker." he was open with you about the fact he paid karen mcdougal because he wanted to help then-candidate trump. >> right. he portrayed it to me ...

And show that he has lied about all of these matters, and may provide evidence that he has broken the law in a criminal fashion, that he knew what he was doing. or if they lie, they would be prosecuted for lying. and the people were talking about at this stage are the people that cohen referred to as senior officials of the campaign. now, who were those? theres manafort, until he left. a lot of this happened after he left. but its the presidents son-in-law. its don junior. the presidents legal c...

The way it was described to me by former staffers at ami was that pecker really understands on an institutional level how michael cohen and donald trump operated, particularly in this sphere. and its one that, you know, you talked about on your previous segment but its really significant to say that in august 2015 they sat down and said not only will we catch and kill stories that could hurt your chances, but well let you know about anything that might be coming. well sort of be your in-house re...

Their way to say, as long as you keep cooperating, as long as you keep giving us what we ask you to give us, what else is there? >> we dont know what there is. theres certainly more from cohen, and we must expect that theres more from a.m.i.. and we dont know -- its a really strange deal, very odd. barrett was right about that on cohen. he put himself in a lot of risk by not coming to some agreement on cooperation early. and the fact that the southern district of new york hammered him today, and...

Case, he would be in the soup. >> john avlon, we have been looking at everything happening this week, michael cohen and what not and saying theres a shakespearen aspect to it. i dont know if shakespeare and the right way to look at it now that "the enquirer" is involved. >> yeah, theres a certain justice. you have a candidate in bed with a tabloid. theres a keystone cops and covering up playboy playmates offering to give somebody a fit column. ami has great reach across the country and acting as...