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Then was paid extra for additional services, i think approximately $60,000, something of that nature. >> what additional services? >> well, he continued to be an adviser to donald trump on retainer. there are many clients that i represent that pay a monthly retainer for me to be available for advice. and mr. trump was willing to pay slightly more than the amount that would be the equivalent of $130,000, including the income taxes to be paid to hush up ms. daniels. >> there are a couple other que...

Out, the benefit of this is for the president. doesnt make sense for a lawyer in good standing to have done these actions without the permission and the direction of the president. you could make a case. im just saying i dont know how much direct hard evidence there is to corroborate. >> not regarding stormy daniels. theres audiotape regarding the karen mcdougal situation in which donald trump and michael cohen, i dont know if conspiring is the right word, but they seem to be talking about and d...

So many different roles, as you know. donald trump produced a reality show for me. you may not know i also went, at the direction of trump new mexico, to work for ami and david pecker, also involved in the stormy daniels deal. i know a great deal about how trump world works and how donald trump operates. when donald trump asked michael cohen to do something, for instance, in my case, work on a television show or work on getting me a deal with ami, when michael cohen is directed to do that, he do...

Cohen deal with hush payments to the women that trump allegedly had affairs with. campaign money may have been used and it was done in secret to have an influence on the election in one case the contribution was more than would have been allowed any way. cohen said in court that the payments were made, quote, in coordination with an at the direction of a candidate for federal office for the principle purpose of influencing the election. this is the part that is relevant, for the principal purpos...

Knew about it contemporaneously or before. why was he having money paid from ami and having his lawyer pay it. why did they set up a dummy comfortable. >> robert what do you make of this? we went from home to work last night, all came home thinking this is a very, very bad day for the president. two things happened. the guy who ran his campaign for many months looks like he is facing hard time and i dont have any particular animus to the guy but facing a large time. this guy is in serious, he is...

Be a communicator for him, and it is interesting that people have not really examined the fact that he would rather have someone who has no political experience and no knowledge of politics at all, because she is pretty. and i am someone who served in two tours of indict, and this is my second time in the white house and he calls me a dog. >> did you feel like you were harassed in the white house as a woman, in a sexual way or harass anyone in a metoo moment? >> i saw in your book where he grabb...

>> did donald trump talk directly to david pecker. >> we talked together on a conference call. he called me to tell me that he learned about the lawsuit after the murder of my brother that i had against the enquirer and that david pecker was a really good close friend of his and a that he thought that we should work it out outside of ocourt, because he did not want to see any harm to david pecker. he was persistent to make sure that i negotiated a deal to him and because i respected him and he i...

President trump has a chummy relationship with the national enquirer and its owner, david pecker, but "the daily beast" has a new exclusive that suggests that relationship is changing. pecker made a conscious decision to pull back on his pro-trump coverage just as his media empire found itself increasingly embroiled in trump worlds legal woes. as pecker and his team were distancing themselves from trump publicly, a more surreptitious effort was under way to cleanse the public record of details o...

Been for several years now, to at least not seem like an overt mouthpiece for team trump and the trump presidency. look, im not at all saying that david pecker is completely severing his friendship and close personal relationship to president donald trump, but there have been conspicuous actions taken publicly, which as you pointed out earlier in the segment, includes the conscious effort from team pecker to scale back the coverage in the pages of "the national enquirer" shortly after the raid o...