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About mr. trump providing direction to mr. cohen who was his attorney. >> i dont have an opinion on whether or not the president directed michael cohen to do so or not. what i do have is an opinion about what michael cohen said out loud in court. he said he was directed by the president of the united states. i have also read the "wall street journal" today which says david pecker, a friend of the president, chairman of ami has told prosecutors under oath about the nature of these deals, includin...

>> and michael cohen said that under oath this week. april, to you. i want to quote a former staffer at ami who told ronan farrow of the new yorker when he did this big profile on pecker months ago, he said, in theory, you would think that trump has all the power in that relationship, but in fact, its pecker. he has the power to run these stories. he knows where the bodies are buried. does pecker have the upper hand on the president here? >> pecker has the upper hand and the president is not hap...

A personal turningint poit poi conversation with his father saying he didnt survive the holocaust to have his name sullied by trump. now he faces jail time. a.m.i. has not responded to our request for comment. a lawyer sent out this tweet saying to all media asking for comment here is our official statement, told you so. >> pretty short statement. our legal and political experts are all standing by. they are getting ready to weigh in. well take a quick break and be right back. its time for the b...

President. i mean, you dont know how far this goes. and its like every day, what level of crazy are we in? what level of reality show, white house reality are we in? it just keeps going and going. this president has something to fear. he has something to fear. >> let me read to you, stu, something from gus winter, who sold "us weekly" to david pecker. this is what he told "the new yorker" about a discussion that he had with pecker regarding then citizen trump. he said, quote -- this is what peck...

Entered the race, back in 2015. brian stelter is with me. he is our senior media correspondent. this is your reporting. walk us through how extensively we now know michael cohen worked with ami to bury this stuff. >> we heard about catch and kill for several months. it had been based on media reports. now for the first time, michael cohen in his own words is admitting to this behavior. thats part of the guilty plea. theres so much detail in these government court filings. some of the detail does...

That the prosecutors would have to file where theyd have to weigh, is it in the public interests for this person to be granted immunity? >> right. >> and then the details of that would be -- would depend on the specific agreement that the prosecutors would have worked out with mr. peckers lawyers and ami. so i dont think we quigt know enough publicly about what the scope of that immunity agreement is. in other words, whether he has agreed to provide information discreetly about these two particu...

Sullied by mr. trump." >> reporter: cohen is facing his sentencing in december. we reached out for comments and we have not heard back. karen mcdougal is speaking out. she filed a suit against ami, in that tweet, her lawyer says, i told you so. >> thank you very much. joining us now is michael avenatti, thank you so much for joining us. what do you say, what does it say to you that the government was willing to grant immunity to david pecker? >> well, it says that the president is no a lot of ...

That even from the president is quite brazen. >> his argument seems to be, there is no accountability. there is no laws. like the matrix, there is no spoon. its just not there. you can do whatever you want with it. and his current argument about campaign finance law, that there was no law there, thats broken -- >> or crime. >> or crime, what do you make of that? despite what we have heard from federal prosecutors saying that they have all kinds of law that there was a law and a crime committed. ...

Late today the associated press reports the national inquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and damaging stories as part of cozy relationship with donald trump leading up to 2016 presidential election. throughout the campaign, ami would act as de facto wing of the trump campaign promoting the candidate and savaging opponents. thats hillary clinton. meanwhile advisers to the president admitted there was no strategizing to the bombshell. represented rapid desen graduatiod...

Of puts the light of this whole mess about the girlfriends, and that is that hes in a conversation, and its all about the campaign. one is about talking to reverends in the south somewhere, another is about whether the divorce and those details will come out before the election is over. and then the third one is how do we pay off ami? how do we do that? and he says cash. that is trump says cash. and its cohen thats coming back and says no, no, no, well do it by checks and we now know that that t...