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Reported to not only be cooperating with prosecutors but to have been granted immunity in conjunction with doing so, it -- and the type of leverage youre describing here relates to the serving president of the united states, it raises all sorts of very big questions that are more than about the "inquirer"s competitive advantage in the marketplace. one of the things im wondering here, jeff, is whether theres a financial element here, a business leapt here? i mean, i find it hard to tell whether o...

Playboy model karen mcdougals catch and kill deal, those assets became a liability. fearful that the documents might be used against ami, picker and the companys chief content officer dylan howard removed the documents from the safe in the weeks before trumps inauguration according to one person directly familiar with the events. "the a.p. cannot say whether the documents were destroyed or removed to a location known to fewer people." joining us now is the reporter who broke the story, jeff horo...

To be the one whos going to bring down ms-13 and street gangs. ill tell you what, without cooperating witnesses hes never going to touch the real leaders of those organizations. >> talk about your organization reporting upon this safe. >> my colleague whos really been covering this story for over a year, talked to former ami employees. >> ami, american media international. >> exactly. the folks under the confidentiality agreement. what they told jeff is theres actually a safe in the offices ther...

Editorial process was being run in terms of the political slant is a really interesting one. and i dont know what exactly the benefit would be bust theyre the money behind a.m.i. >> if that ends up being relevant to this story, that story will be told to federal prosecutors if in fact mr. pecker is operating under immunity. a really interesting scoop tonight, jeff, thanks for being here. congratulations on this. >> youre welcome. >> and while i was talking to him, we have more breaking news. con...

People in the press, the a.p. and other outlets, we didnt take seriously the a.m.i. as a business and one that was capable of making bad stories about the president go away. and to answer your question, the ownership and all that, theyre owned by a hedge fund out of new jersey. while david pecker is held out as the king of a.m.i., he makes all the decisions. these guys are owned by a company called chatham asset management. it is a hedge fund in chatham, new jersey. that company is close to chri...

Hillary clinton. she failed a secret fbi lie detector. she gained 103 pounds. it just goes on and on. she is corrupt, racist, criminal. they did donald trumps dirty work for him, it seems? >> they did. one of the -- when you own a media company, you own it for a couple of reasons. to make money, which pecker is good at. to have influence over public opinion, what people think. looking at that wall of covers, when you are at a newsstand, an airport or a train station, and ami owns vast properties...

Ami as a business and one that was capable of making bad stories about the president go away. and to your question as to sort of owner slp, theyre owned by a hedge fund out of new jersey. while david pecker held out as the king of ami, the guy who sort of you know makes all the decisions, these guys are owned by a company called chatham asset management. its a hedge fund in new jersey and the -- that company is close to chris christie, got a lot of public pension money during the christie admini...

And kill worked, and many a.m.i. employees told us, the "wall street journal" and other outlets that did ground breaking work on this. this catch and kill was about getting an advantage for the national enquirer and other a.m.i. publications. wasnt just that you were buying up dirt on a celebrity or a presidential candidate out of the goodness of your heart. you were buying it up because that person would know that you had some material sitting in a safe somewhere. and as a consequence, they mig...

"the wall street journal" and other outlets that did ground breaking work on this, that this catch and kill was about getting an advantage for the "national enquirer" and other ami publications. so it wasnt just that you were happening to buy up dirt on a celebrity or presidential candidate out of the goodness of your heart. you were buying it up because that person would know that you had some damaging material sitting in a safe somewhere. and as a consequence, they might be pretty nice to you....

But after the "wall street journal" initially published the first details of playboy model karen mcdougals catch and kill deal shortly before the 2016 election, those assets became a liability. fearful the documents might be used against a.m.i., pecker and dylan howard removed the documents from the safe in the weeks before trumps inauguration. according to one person directly familiar with the events. quote, the a.p. cannot say whether the documents were destroyed or simply removed to a locatio...