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Records related to the payments of women in the run up to the 2016 election to keep those stories quiet. and this is the perfect storm confluence of those two requests. here you have donald trump and michael cohen talking about payments to a woman who claimed an affair and was trying to keep that story quiet and i think that is super important to the fbi investigation campaign finance. if this was ultimately about the campaign. if they said on the tape and we dont know this, really important tha...

Was born. this is not about stormy daniels. it is a different alleged affair with a different adult performer involving a different hush money payment. in august 2016, shortly before election day. the parent company of "national enquirer," ami, paid mcdougal $150,000. and had her sign a disclosure agreements. the deal appears to be a so-called catch and kill. that brings us to todays revelation which was broken by the "new york times" and confirmed by rudy giuliani. federal investigators seized ...

Out. thats one explanation. ultimately, the rights were pald by ami. they never ran the story. and if not for the story in the journal, we wnlt have known before election day that this allegation even existed. and now were learning more of the story today. >> matt, good work from you and your colleagues on the reporting on this. matt of "the new york times." thanks for being with me. im joined for more on the legal implications of all of this by our legal contributor, a former u.s. attorney. als...

Discussing buys the rights to the story of ami. trump advised to pay by check to be documented. the recording one of several by the fbi during a raid of the cohen apartment, hotel room and office in april and there are other tapes and powerful individual that is the fbi seized beyond the president that could be embarrassing for the people on the tape and for cohen according to a source familiar with those tapes. prosecutors in new york city are examining possible election law violations related ...

To karen mcdoogle for the rights to her story where she claimed to have an affair with president trump before he ran for office. they never commented on that story. they claimed it was an additional payment for her silence. apparently on the audio, you can hear mr. trump saying it should be done through a check, and not by cash. what his lawyer said to us, rudy giuliani is that shows that he wasnt trying to hide it, that this was above board because he knows that a check can be subpoenaed or ban...

Any claim. on the substance it sounds like this is some sort of a reimbursement thats being said, that essentially ami was an intermediary, making a payment to mcdougal with the knowledge that trump was going to reimburse him to kill the story and she was going to sell it to become famous. >> so the "national enquirer." a parent company, owned by the trumps, it appears they were working together, not a surprise, but discussing it as opposed to just implicitly doing it. theyre saying, look, its n...

Nation"national enquirer," as w been reporting for a long time, he has a very close relationship with donald trump and a lot of information has been coming out in the past couple of months in revealing that donald trump could approve stories or not approve stories that are weighing in on him. so this might have been another story that ami has been trying to attack and coh during the election, any story that went through "the national enquirer" or any ami publication, if thats what michael cohen ...

To try to kill unflattering storiy ies throughout the elect and this is just going to be the tip of the iceberg, kate. >> and one of the most important things here with this is the timing, timing of the payment, timing of the conversation, specifically, right? if everyone can remember, because a lot of what we have talked about is the issue or stormy daniels ann s and that p, but this is another model, karen mcdoogle who says she had a long time affair with donald trump and this gets to the stor...

He was told of this information that he was unaware that ami had been paying karen mcdoogle until he was told during this conversation, again, i dont know if he actually believes that, but he says he believes this is not bad information for them when it comes to the presidents credibility versus michael cohens. >> but the legal issue here, for the president is potentially mag gimag -- maggie, and the legal issue is whether it was a campaign finance violation only weeks before an election, having...

$150,000 payment to karen mcdougal. theres a lot of questions whether cohen colluding with ami on that payment. so many issues. >> and if he recorded this call, most likely recording other calls. the question is what is on the other recordings, which we dont know. >> and to the question of cooperation and michael cohen. they already have the recordings. its not as if -- the ball is in michael cohens point at this point. whatever recordings he made, the federal government has. >> thanks, caroline...