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American media supposedly is that its kept under wraps. >> the word collusion is a loaded word right now. is that the proper word? is that the word you want to use? >> im very comfortable telling you that personally im very troubled by mr. davidson, mr. cohen, their relationship and the work that theyve done together. and i do view the things that theyve done as collusive. >> a spokesman for davidson says any characterization of attorney davidsons relationship with mr. cohen as anything other th...

Anymore. she doesnt have to worry theyre going to sell it. >> if she does, ami will get a small cut. but stress says any such sale is unlikely. >> there was never the objective here. all we sought in this lawsuit was to void the contract. this wasnt a lawsuit for money. >> someone you may hear from again, keith davidson. a spokesman says keith now cooperating with the federal investigators behind the cohen raid. now, there is a third publicly known attempt by someone close to trump to kill a neg...

Mcdougal says the company called american media incorporated, the parent company of the national enquirer gave her a $150,000 contract in august 2016 ensuring her silence after passing on her story earlier in the year. her attorney for that deal, keith davidson. >> youre saying ami suddenly came back to you? >> well, to keith, yes. >> mcdougal says she thought she was signing onto a deal that would buy her silence but allow her to publish a few health and fitness columns for ami publications. sh...

All we sought in this lawsuit was to void the contract. this wasnt a lawsuit for money. >> someone you may hear from again, keith davidson. a spokesman says keith now cooperating with the federal investigators behind the cohen raid. now, there is a third publicly known attempt by someone close to trump to kill a negative story about him in the lead-up to election. this time the person reported to be behind it is a man named david pecker, a trump supporter who is also the wealthy owner of ami. re...

But that does not explain why after he sealed the deal in 2016, he called michael cohen. >> i think i called him as a professional courtesy, to let him know that a matter was resolved and as a professional courtesy that it may or may not have involved his client. >> was he involved in the deal at all? >> certainly wasnt involved on our end. and theres no reason for me to believe he was involved or had communication with ami. karen mcdougals current attorney doesnt buy it. keith davidson said aft...

Looking for was to see if there was any, for lack of a better word, collusion between michael cohen and ami, to make these payments. because now, once you have two or three, theres also the payment to trumps doorman from ami, and you have multiple payments right on the precipice of the election, now that starts to look like a conspiracy to violate the campaign finance laws and its a stronger case when you have multiple examples of that, than just the one that weve known about with stormy daniels...

A long and protracted court fight that has the potential to bankrupt just about anyone. >> daniel, something we just kind of skimmed by at the top of the broadcast seems to me could be more important than just a brief mention. the former attorney for miss mcdougal, former playmate turned model for stormy daniels, adult film star, is now working for the government. its been reported tonight, he was unhappy to learn that potential recordings of his phone calls with michael cohen were vacuumed up i...

The election. ami as a corporation has different rules, but it would be further evidence that that was the purpose for the stormy daniels payment. and michael cohen could be on the hook for campaign finance violations, if thats the case. >> so theres also cooperation and theres cooperation. and apparently the latter case is turning over documents and materials. vivian, last night, the view was, who among the republicans in the house, perhaps, thought the comey memos were going to be exculpatory ...

Because now once you have two or three, theres also the payment to trumps doorman from ami, and you have multiple payments right on the precipice of the election. now that starts to look like a conspiracy to violate the campaign finance laws, and its a stronger case when you have multiple examples of that than just the one that weve known about with stormy daniels. >> and for the folks wondering how that could be illegal, isnt the point that its at some point the allegation is its a de facto don...

The broadcast seems to me could be more important than just a brief mention. the former attorney for ms. mcdougal, former playmate-turned-model, for stormy daniels, adult film star, is now working for the government. its been reported tonight he was unhappy to learn that potential recordings of his phone calls with michael cohen were vacuumed up in this fbi raid. now, how damaging -- hes not one of the larger figures in this investigation, but how damaging might just that, flipping that one pers...