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Old what can you do to help. if stories come out about women from the past, allegations of affairs. i can help you kill them. as i have done for others in the past. by buying their story. ill alert cohen and take care of it. >> based on all the reporting. thats exactly what the national enquirer did. >> thats right. the following june, karen mcdougal the play mate of the year 1998 was looking to sell her story. and her lawyer contacted dillen howard. of american media and howard called cohen. tr...

Understand and probably cant spell. so you see -- you see the breakdown here in the complete and out per breakdown, which we have been watching occur for the last months between michael cohen and donald trump. and it seems to me that the southern district has done an awful lot of interviewing, not only with cohen, but with other people from ami, for example, who were all involved in this. jeffrey is more qualified to make the case about whether there is a case that could be made on campaign fina...

Off and out come stormy daniels. from what i read in the journal, david pecker was like, nope, i draw the line at paying off porn stars. so it then becomes something that trump and cohen have to deal with. its where that money comes from. we remember when the journal first broke the story about this payment, now it shows where it came from. >> right. in the cohen charges, theres two different elements to what he was charged with. one was the direct payment, fairly direct payment from cohen to st...

Members of the campaign including through meetings and phone calls about the fact nature and timing of the paymen payments." how serious is this for the president? >> its quite serious. he said i did this at the direction of a candidate for office. the big question coming out of that proceeding was does he have the proof of that, does he have the goods? i think michael cohen probably has some credibility issues that the southern district im sure is working with. does he have the proof? i think w...

Report has a lot of important, new information. >> reporter: it certainly does, an explosive report really when you consider the details in it that could put trump in more hot water, if you will, when it comes to the two women he is accused of having an affair with and paying off and trying to silence. the "wall street journal" reports that donald trump not only knew about hush money payments made to two women to keep their alleged affairs with him out of the press before the 2016 presidential e...

Court documents suggest trump knew about the deal with the women. cnn obtained audio tapes from cohens attorney of a conversation cohen taped between himself and trump, allegedly discussing details made with tabloid owner pecker. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david. >> reporter: now, ami has not responded for comment as we have requested. as you know, you had michael avenatti on, the attorney for stormy daniels, hes on the warpath saying...

Personally, but theres almost a certain likelihood he will have a lot of inquiries. it will take up a lot of his time, a lot of the white houses time. it is going to cost a lot of money, and it is going to put a lot of people around the president in some legal jeopardy or in the position where theyre facing subpoenas. this is going to be a real headache for the white house, in addition to all of the stuff related to mueller, which they are not totally prepared to deal with in terms of what is co...

Involved in these two payments, one to stormy daniels and another from ami, the parent company of the national enquirer to karen mcdougal. what this does is shed light on the depth for donald trumps involvement. it tabs a closer look at the start of the agreement between donald trump and david pecker, the chief executive of a.m.i. to have a.m.i. operate in service of the trump campaign and help suppress negative stories about donald trump during the campa n campaign. that started with this augus...

♪ were following multiple breaking stories on the federal investigations weighing right now on the president as he begins a trip over the weekend to paris. tonight the "wall street journal" is reporting that the feds have gathered evidence of mr. trumps personal involvement in hush-money payments to women refuting his past denials and potentially -- potentially violating campaign finance laws. lets get some more from our reporters, commentators and analysts. laura coates, this bombshell repo...

Trump and david pecker, ami declined to comment on this story. but in this meeting, donald trump essentially says, look, what can you do to help me? and david pecker apparently replies and says, well, what i can do is i can make sure that i can silence these women. i can make these stories go away if women start coming out and making these allegations against you. and so this is sort of the beginning, allegedly, of this scheme that now, you know, president trump has been implicated in, jake. >> ...