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But did have communication with her lawyer the day this agreement was struck. there have been questions about the role that ami played here. ami is in the hot seat. her attorney, keith davidson, who was the attorney for karen mcdougal and also for stormy daniels has been in the hot seat, under a lot of scrutiny. we know he appears to be talking to the feds in this now criminal investigation, so theres -- i think what were seeing today, its possible these various players involved in these secret ...

Controlled by a trump ally and in the center of this mess we reported in our special tonight because it was involved in the payments to try to silence another trump accuser, i read to you what stormy daniels is saying in this case, he is basically tweeting ami, the national enquirer is starting a campaign to undermine cohens capability and predicts that could lead to him flipping. could you walk us through this admittedly confusing situation? because the enquirer is spot in the middle of this wh...

Runs the national enquirer, normally in the business of publicizing salacious stories, in this case, stepped in and purchased the story from her, said, listen, well buy the exclusive rights to this story, and they promised her she would basically be featured in their various publications. >> they went on to settle with her. folks recall some of that. what do you take of the significance today of the enquirer going after cohen? >> theres evidence, we at the new york state were able to identify we...

Now paul manafort is a nice guy, but you know, he worked for me for a very short period of time. literally for like, what, a couple of months? a little period of time. then what happens, he worked for ronald reagan, he worked for bob dole. they worked, i think, as a firm for john mccain. they worked for others. does anybody say that? no. but hes out there fighting. >> very similar to what the president has been saying about michael cohen. worked for him just a little bit. the president is trying...

Their statement was donald trump has never told us to kill a story, but other people have. >> jeffrey, youve done reporting on "the national enquirer" and ami, its parent company. >> and they dont need to be told by donald trump which side to take. they know which way the wind is blowing, and that cover story is a sign that its blowing against michael cohen and hes in a lot of trouble. >> what do you think, david? >> i think president trump is his own roy cohn. hes as good as anyone he could get...

Him for his business practices. theres been wide speculation if cohen is charged, he will turn on the president. last week the president called into fox news and distanced himself from cohen and the investigation. >> michael is a businessman. hes got a business. he also practices law. i would say probably the big thing is his business and theyre looking into something having to do with his business. i have nothing to do with his business. >> but the trump campaign is paying some of cohens legal ...

These sort of whats called catch and kill stories, right? >> yeah, absolutely. so this was a real turn-about. this was a very -- the ami is completely changing its tune in terms of now not just going on the attack, but going on the attack viciously against cohen. >> how do you interpret that? >> theyre in the same business, right? they are the print version of michael cohen. they have been running interference for donald trump. to the extent of paying six figure sums to sexy time ladies so they ...

16 cell phones were recovered in this search warrant. >> thats a hell of a detail, isnt it? >> and all three sets of these prosecutors can share information. and again, its not looking really good for michael cohen. >> i would point out actually that part of the -- when the feds went in and gathered all these records from cohens -- well, the hotel where he has been staying and from his office, some of the records that they collected were related to ami. i mean, there have been allegations that a...

Proving no russia collusion. spoiler alert no. no he did not. its not true. all of this as abc news suggests the trump campaign is footing some of cohens legal bills. here megan tooey. msnbc little analyst paul butler, a former federal prosecutor. matt welch of reason magazine. you reported on ami and david packer. what is that relationship between trump world and that publication? >> well, its been very close. in fact, several months ago when several of my colleagues were zooming in on michael ...

Ami. i mean, there have been allegations that ami actually colluded with michael cohen in silencing karen mcdougal. there was evidence that mcdougal was in contact with ami as it was working to catch and kill her story there are questions here not just about michael cohen but also ami that may be under criminal investigation. >> >> thats a great point. whether ami, do they function as a first amendment protected media entity, which would be my strong bias to view them that way for criminal purpo...