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>> there would be legal consequences of that. obviously, if youre acting as a publisher, you can hire and fire editors and contributors and make decisions whos on covers and who gets columns. all of that stuff. all of those decisions are absolutely protected by the first amendment and the government has no say there. there would be no criminal implications of any decision like that. but if those decisions were a ruse in order to disguise what was in effect a political action, an action designed ...

Become legal trouble for the president if in fact that legal trouble is so worrying those entities and people consider flipping and cooperating with prosecutors for any other larger case this is a might be bringing. that part i care about. joining us now is rebecca obrien who has been on this story. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me here. >> my preface is totally honest, i dont care about the personal dynamics between president trump and michael cohen and dont feel eddified by...

Company, at times shifted away from being just a strictly media -- whether ami wasnt a straightforward media organization all the time and whether at times it acted as an appendage of sorts of donald trump and his campaign. >> there would be legal consequences of that. obviously, if youre acting as a publisher, you can hire and fire editors and contributors and make decisions whos on covers and who gets columns. all of those decisions are absolutely protected by the first amendment and the gover...

Obrien, a law enforcement reporter on the "wall street journal" who has been reporting on this story. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me here. >> my preface is totally honest, i dont care about the personal dynamics between mike cohen and president trump and i dont feel edified by the tape. but this issue about potential legal jeopardy for people associated with the president in this case, do i get that right? is there anything wrong there with the ways those things might shake...

With the creation of that company other than we know they did not buy the rights from ami. that deal did not go through. >> let me stop you there, it is weird. the whole way this goes down is weird. catch and kill. thinking about buying it, but never do buy it but it never runs. that is weird. >> it is kind of weird and a lot of people ask the question why was michael proposing that they buy it from david pecker. and here are possible scenarios. i am not putting any odds on them. but one is that...

To have an overall umbrella in case theres something that happens to the company or the stories go someplace else or david pecker is hit by a bus. he talks about all these different things. remember, hes the head of a magazine and a number of magazines that allegedly has been able to protect the president of the united states as citizen and now as president from damaging stories that are against his actual interest. that could be true. the second part of it is why its so important this cash vers...

Look, this is our boy in ami, he is plify to information that is dama damaging. so share suggesting that we have to cake care of that, all of it, in case we were to lose that asset pb they think she a contribution to the role in some way ship or form, i know that pecker has said im not that person, its not my role, but you hear it with their own ears, it suggests a connection, that number $150 means theyre willing to pay for that asset as well. >> this is the moment when michael cohen says he wi...

It is an ongoing cast of shady characters of which michael cohen has just been summarily dismissed. as an attorney, i have problems with the fact he reported a conversation. i have problems with the fact that theres even some discussion about how to set up some type of corporation to pay for a story that exists with donald trumps friend. i was reading earlier about ami and "national enquirer" and the fact that one of the senior editors said there wasnt a single story published in the "national e...

Lawyer or accountant for trump, so lets listen to the shorter fergs -- version where michael cohen explains. >> i need to open a company, i spoke to allen weiselberg about how to set that up, the funding, all of the stuff, you never know, that company, you never know where that will be. so im all over to that. i spoke to allen about it, when it comes time for the financing. >> pay cash?

Duchdo you accept that reckoning of the tape? >> i said would, not would not. it is an ongoing cast of shade i characters of which michael cohen has just been summarily dismissed. as an attorney, i have problems with the fact he reported a conversation. i have problems with the fact that theres even some discussion about how to set up some type of corporation to pay for a story that exists with donald trumps friend. i was reading earlier about ami in national enquirer and the fact that one of th...