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More for the publication at all. so you have to ask a question, why david pecker and dylan howard, the top figures there, why they did that, but two, why the owner would have allowed them to do it. >> in terms of david pecker and dylan howard, the executives that you mentioned, it has been reported that they are cooperating, at least to some extent with prosecutors. obviously ami was implicated in the criminal information that was described by prosecutors when michael cohen pled guilty to two fe...

That publication had buried on donald trumps behalf going back several decades. the trump files were described at the time, mostly older "national enquirer" stories about mr. trumps marital woes, lawsuits, related story notes and lists of sensitive sources, some of the tips about alleged affairs and minutia like allegations of unscrupulous golfing. what is scrupulous golfing when you think about it? i kid, i kid. dont be mad. we learned last week the "inquirer"s parent company ami kept all those...

Often paying for stories, bury them in a practice of catch and kill. associated press reports unsavory stories were kept in a safe at ami. according to "new york times," that safe contained decades of material on trump, like his marital woes, lawsuits, list of sensitive sources, tips on alleged affairs. cohen and trump discussed a backup plan in case pecker, holder of the secrets, was no longer around. >> it is all of the stuff, all the stuff. you never know where that company, where he is going...

The campaign -- if the real estate developer, trump, wanted to buy up something in the national enquirer, there would be nothing illegal about that. >> unless it was for the campaign. it is also what michael cohen was charged with here. >> and in terms of how much money he spent. but it can go way over a limit. your know who presumably knows about this already? it would have been david pecker of ami who was granted some immunity, and allen wasselberg.

There were rumors he would want something to do with "time." i havent heard him about leaving ami for that. i had wondered -- ive been covering this for ten months. what i nevered into ed intunde would the candidate trump trust any third party. that seemed to be dawning on them as well. >> excellent reporting from "the new york times." thank you for being here. we will continue this discussion now with julie and page. julie, this story is about more potentially damaging stories that could come o...

Make sure they dont see the light of day. also shows trumps mindset, how he worked to control negative information about himself long before he became president. tonight, the "new york times" is reporting donald trump and former personal attorney michael cohen once discussed a plan to buy all stories the national enquirer collected on trump going back to the 1980s. that discussion was strongly hinted at in a secret audio recording made by cohen, released exclusively to cnn by his lawyers in july...

>> its all the stuff -- all the stuff. you never know where that -- you never know where he will be. >> he gets hit by a truck. >> we broke the story. jim, donald trump and michael cohen worked on a plan to buy material about trump from ami, which is the parent company of the "national enquirer." what type of material were they plans to buy and how far along were they in this process? >> per that conversation, that recording which you obtained, they were pretty far along. they were talking about...

Working to buy the silence of stormy daniels and karen mcdugal, who women who alleged affairs with trump. both pecker and weisselberg helped the case in exchange for immunity. it is unclear what other secrets they may be sharing with federal prosecutors. it is unclear if attorneys in the special counsel had interest in this trove of other negative trump stories that have not yet been reported. we reached out to a.m.i. and they declined to comment. lets play this section of the tape where cohen...

With trump and to protect him pecker would dig up the dirt on trump, often paying for the stories and burying them in a practice called catch and kill. according to the "new york times" that safe contained decades of material on trump like marital woes and lawsuits, lists of sensitive sources and tips about alleged affairs. cohen and trump even discussed a backup plan just in case pecker, the holder of the secrets, was no longer around. >> its all the stuff because you never know when the compan...

They had source notes. stories that are lost to our modern times because they dont come up on google. we know in more recent history about the contracts like the one involving karen mcdougal. ami also had insight into stormy daniels. there was a lot at risk in that building for mr. trump at the time. of course, david pecker was loyal. they could rely on him. maybe he gets hit by a truck. >> that was my next question. pecker becoming a central figure in this drama. you report that on trump and co...