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About purchasing or trying to acquire that non-disclosure agreement entered into between ami and karen mcdougall, clearly, clearly reveals the president knew that karen mcdougall was telling her story or potentially telling her story about an affair she says she had with the president. so nothing else, it proves that trump and his administration have not been honest with the american people. >> thats one factor. the other big question is does the tape reveal in the payments made to miss mcdougal...

That means the feds now have similar recordings of trump and maybe others. for all the hype, whats out about the tape, this transcript tells us only a little part at best. how so? well, what if theres proof that trump, by tape, document, or testimony, that trump did know about the payment before? well then you have a mendacity issue potentially at a minimum, aka lying. what if there were communiques about the "national enquirer" chief david pecker helping trump in the election that are not in th...

Then-candidate was saying, lets do this all aboveboard, is not how this went down. were obviously not going to know without hearing this. the conversation is short. its around two minutes long. it cuts off at some point before the conversation is done. there are portions of it that are apparently inaudible in the transcript. and it will, you know, i think it will have to be heard, you know, by any of us to really understand whats being said. but what it clearly does, as you say, is undercut what...

Logically is theyre reimbursing ami for doing them a solid of buying karen mcdougals life right. that seems to be what donald trump is talking to his attorney of not buying her life rights so they can do something with it or bury them. ami have already buried them. >> it could be because theyre buying it because they had control over it and burying it themselves. >> what you do with them is there is no credible explanation why donald trump would have want those other than put them on a shelve so...

Legal issues for the u.s. president. lets bring in our legal analyst areva martin from los angeles. thank you for being with us. from what we know about this tape, does it hurt the president? one of his lawyers rudy giuliani says it wont. has he explained that? >> one thing we know for sure is that the president lied to us. this story broke in 2016, the wau "wall street journal" broke a story that trump knew about the negotiated deal between karen mcdug al and ami. when asked about that deal, do...

The transcript makes it clear that trump is finding out about this after the fact. so he didnt set it up. the transcript makes clear that he was thinking about buying back what ami, the parent company of the "national enquirer," had through a legitimate corporate entity. so it shows its not a campaign violation. and there is no proof that he ever paid back david pecker even though they have a conversation about it in here, which proves he wasnt paying pecker back, which means pecker wasnt doing ...

To the former playboy model karen mcdougal according to trumps current attorney rudy guiliani. mcdougal claims she had a nearly yearlong affair right after melania gave birth to baron in 2006. >> he is a nice looking man, liked his charisma. >> reporter: she said trump tried to hand her cash after her first night together. >> after we had been intimate, he tried to pay me and i actually didnt know how to take that. >> did he actually try to hand you money? >> he did. >> reporter: trump denies th...

Explanation in which he indicated this was a separate payment, that this was a payment to mcdougal that was separate and apart from this arrangement mcdougal had with ami. he called back later to clarify that this was actually supposed -- on the tape, what theyre discussing, is obtaining the rights to her story from ami. they are -- giuliani was strenuously denying that this should be construed as a reimbursementme reimbursement, although some i think would interpret it that way. hes adamant tha...

Mcdougal that was separate and apart from this arrangement that mcdougal had with the ami. theyre discussing of obtaining the right to her story from ami. rudy giuliani was strenuously denying it could be construe as a reimbursement and hes adamant that it is not and it has legal implication and of the finance piece of this. in his telling of it, it was trump that says lets do it properly and it was michael cohen who either suggested cash or did not suggest a check in the first place. someone cl...

That ami, the parent company, had? >> well, theres no criminal liability there. the potential is political embarrassment. conceivably, depending on the facts, a violation of some, you know, election law act. but in the end, you know, this story just doesnt help the president. and the more of it that comes out, particularly piecemeal, the worse i think he looks in the court of public opinion. now -- >> its not as bad -- but its not as bad as what had been happening. its the one thing i think you ...