Page 246 - Ami News Today

Were back with michael avenatti who says today there are new women coming forward claiming they were also paid by donald trump or others for their silence. he mentions it could even include the same tabloid company if the middle of this whole cohen case. >> there are three additional female clients of mine that have not been disclosed that were paid hush money prior to the 2016 election, whether it be from michael cohen on behalf of the president, an entity that michael cohen formed, or ami, tha...

Is the one character who knows all of that. he has kind of full visibility into the financial portrait of the trump organization and of donald trump personally, and has had that visibility for decades now. so he has a lot of value to the mueller team, you know, if, in fact, he is questioned on this. >> michael schmidt, youve been reporting on this, too, and we know this has been the presidents kind of red line as concerns of the mueller investigation broadly, but what is your reporting telling y...

That the most substantive exchange involving the president is the one released tuesday. whats the danger for trump in these other tapes? >> the danger here is whether or not those conversations are going to be privileged. just because you speak to a lawyer doesnt mean its going to have the attorney-client privilege stamp on it. if the nature is not about a legal matter or further isnt trying to get legal advice or legal counsel or trying to get a crime to go forward then its not going to have th...

Listen to this. >> what are we going to pay? >> funding -- yes. and its all the stuff -- >> i was thinking about that. >> all the stuff. because here you never know where that company -- you never know what hes -- >> maybe he gets hit by a truck. >> correct. >> maybe he gets hit by a truck. thats trump speculating about why they have to be careful to secure what they want. and what is that? is it just mcdougal? i dont think so. why? because he keeps referring to it in the plural which raises a q...

And what was donald trumps involvement? thats what we want to know. the tape tells us something, but its just the beginning of a longer story. >> and just in terms of the context, i believe it was ami that made the deal with karen mcdougal in august 2016. this conversation was in september. so that deal with ami had already been done. they are clearly trying to or talking about paying back david pecker for making this sweetheart deal to kill the story. >> correct. the issue, the very specific is...

And what is that? is it just mcdougal? i dont think so. why? because he keeps referring to it in the plural which raises a question. is there a trove of stuff that had been accumulated to insulate trump which they wanted and which theoretically is still out there? now, another important part of this audio is when trump says so what do we got to pay for this? 150? thats a reference to $150,000 that a.m.i. paid mcdougal for her story. a fact that trump appears to remember without prompting. he say...

Exchange involving the president is the one leased tuesday. whats the danger for trump in these other tapes? >> the danger here is whether or not those conversations are going to be privileged. just because you speak to a lawyer doesnt mean its going to have the attorney-client privilege stamp on it. if the nature is not about a legal matter or further isnt trying to get legal advice or legal counsel or trying to get a crime to go forward then its not going to have the protection. the president ...

Trump. he says, you just have to wait a couple weeks or a couple months until the election. that tells you right there that he is thinking about the information being disseminated in terms of the election. obviously, the legal issue here is a campaign finance law violation. if ami was undertaking this catch and kill operation with more than one woman -- it looks like it was a pattern or practice. trump is talking about potentially reimbursing or even if he didnt reimburse, we know it never ended...

>> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david, you know, so that -- >> yeah. >> im going to do that right away. >> reporter: cohen says hes already set the wheels in motion with a top trump organization official. and trump apparently mentions a price tag. $150,000, the same amount a.m.i. paid the former playmate. >> ive spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding. >> so, what do we got to pay, 150? >> yes. >> repor...

And talking about embarrassing information that our friend, david pecker has. of course david pecker is the ceo of ami, the publisher of the "national enquirer." and has damaging information that might come out before the election. and cohen is proposing to the president, then, the gop nominee that they buy the rights from david pecker just to be on the safe side. just to have this material certainly in his hands rather than amis hands. one month after karen mcdougal who claims she had a ten-mon...