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Mcdougals story to prevent it from influencing the election. the key thing here is this idea that they did this in concert with the 2016 campaign, the trump campaign. they say its with one or more persons in the campaign. are there other people attached to the campaign that are potentially going to face problems? just to remind viewers, ami, "national enquirer," the chairman of ami -- >> david pecker, buddies. >> with trump. knows a lot of secrets, this whole idea of a vault with a lot of secret...

That he will make the judgment that while the constitution doesnt prohibit him from seeking an indictment, that there are potential reasons why he might not do that. that he would follow this precedent set by the olc. but if there is an issue about whether justice can be had after he leaves office, i think that ought to get the justice department to examine whether either an exception to that policy is necessary or whether a reconsideration of that policy is in order. >> the prosecutors said tod...

Prosecutors. >> this is muellers team? >> yes. >> youll sometimes hash out certain specific terms. ami admits it makes the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidates presidential campaign and that the principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the womans story to prevent it from influencing the election. so one more strong piece of evidence, we just saw the presidents tweets where he said it wasnt campaign related, on top of cohen and circumstantial evidence, you have the company...

The question now is how does trump respond? we saw trump last week saying throw the book at him. in that reuters interview last night, trump said, number one, it wasnt a campaign contribution. if it were, its only civil. and even if its only civil, there is no violation based on what we did. we did. >> hes all over the map. he didnt know about it, now he knew about it, now its something we did. ultimately i think the wagons are circling on the president here. the news that just came out is that ...

We have heard a lot about david pecker, the chairman of ami and he is close. he was close to donald trump. they were good friends. so he knows a lot, right. theres a lot of information out there that david pecker knows a lot of secrets. theres a vault that apparently contained all sorts of information, and as far as now based on what the sdny released today, david pecker is cooperating in this investigation. theres potentially a lot that he has shared with the sdny and it is clear that the sdny ...

About that deal, that it was going on deep into the presidential campaign, and that michael cohen at the direction of the president actually committed these campaign finance violations. it is the first time that any of the individuals in terms of public knowledge said that they were directed by the president to do something that is a violation of law. so it seems to me that the walls are closing in on the president as we see those who lied for him, his former campaign chair, his former lawyer, m...

There are several crimes he committed that he was charge ared for that have nothing to do with the president. but he also had a very clear message to president trump which effectively amounted to, if im going down, im taking you down with me. and thats precisely why the president was so concerned about cohen and his cooperation with investigators. >> you know, ron brownstein, the whole ami, the david pecker, the parent company of the national enquirer, that is all of a sudden -- hes got immunity...

Im brooke baldwin. american media, the parent company of the "national enquirer" has reached a deal for them to avoid prosecution for their hush money payment to model karen mcdougal. mcdougal talked about why she thinks she was offered the money. >> do you think the presidential race had anything to do with this deal getting done? >> when im looking back at it now, possibly, yeah. >> how so? >> well, as an american citizen, we know that if you dont put all your evidence out, so to speak, that y...

>> reporter: thats right. this is a very big headline involving the media company that made that payment to karen mcdougal. the sdny saying today that it will not prosecute ami in exchange for for cooperation from the media company, in addition to an admission. and let me just read a key line describing that admission. sdny says ami admitted it made the $150,000 payment in concert with the candidates presidential campaign, and in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegati...

They have everything they need and more. so you have a president who has said, first of all, that he didnt know about this, right? look where we are now. today he is saying it is peanuts. he went from "i didnt know about it," you have recorded conversations about how youre going to do this pay-off. you have his good friend, mr. pecker and ami, saying, yes, we did this to influence the election. you have michael cohen testifying to that. i mean, you know, the president now is kind of in a pickle ...