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David pecker, a long-time friend of the president. turns out, his story was never published, a tactic known as catch and kill. tonight, sajudin confirms to abc news he had an agreement with a.m.i. over his story. >> mr. cohen, why do you think they raided your office and hotel room? >> reporter: abc news has also learned that when fbi agents raided the home, office and hotel of president trumps long-time personal attorney, michael cohen, they were specifically looking for any records involving a...

Not even a crime necessarily in paying someone to shut up. but there is definitely a potential crime in undisclosed campaign contributions in the form of paying people off to shut up. and yes, amis story has been no we just made a good journalistic decision not to run this story because we decided it wasnt true. after the third or whatever number of people they pay off, that starts to become factually difficult to believe. and if the search of michael cohens office turns up communications with a...

And they were never going to run it. thats not when you call for comment. for its part, ami says that neither donald trump or michael cohen had anything to do with their decision not to print the story. nbc news asked for comment from the ap tonight and that was awkward. we have not heard back. joining us is jeff horowitz. thank you for being with us. much appreciated. >> thanks for having me. >> the "national enquirer" said they bought the story even though they dont believe it was true. >> tha...

That the fbi used to search michael cohens home, his office and a hotel he was staying in in targeted communications between michael cohen and the two top people at the "national enquirer." david pecker, the publisher, and dylan howard, the "national enquirer" editor and chief. ami the parent company released this statement. ami denies that donald trump or michael cohen had anything to do with its decision not to pursue a story about a love child that it determined was not credible. now, its mom...

The important thing is what they did to cover it up, whether or not its true. because thats where the crime is. theres no crime in an affair, not even a crime necessarily in paying someone to shut up. but there is definitely a potential crime in undisclosed campaign contributions in the form of paying people off to shut up. and yes, amis story has been no we just made a good journalistic decision not to run this story because we decided it wasnt true. after the third or whatever number of people...

Also at the center is ami, david pecker, the national inquirer. and so when were learning more and more about what the feds are looking at, theyre basically looking at how this media company and how michael cohen may have worked to try to sort of systematically silence these women. >> ami, its the national inquirer. ami is the parent company. the company issued a statement that said in part ami categorically denies that donald trump or michael cohen had anything to do with its decision not to pu...

The ap reporting that in 2015, ami, the parent company of "national enquirer," paid that doorman $30,000 for this rumor. theres no evidence the underlying story is true, we should be clear. the woman in question denies it, as does the trump org, which says the former doorman has a history of peddling false stories. the former doorman in a statement responded today, "today i woke to learn that a confidential agreement that i had with ami with regard to a story about president trump was leaked to ...

Tower, a building near the united nations on the east side of manhattan. today he released this statement. today i awoke to learn that a confidentiality agreement i had with ami with regard to a story about president trump was leaked to the press. i can confirm that while working at trump tower i was instructed not to criticize president trumps former housekeeper due to a prior relationship she had with president trump which produced a child. the associated press broke the story last night sayin...

Connected, well see how closely, to the money trail, about an organization so closely entwined with the trump campaign that one would almost want to give michael cohen a masthead, editorship. >> whats fascinating here is that pecker and ami in some ways have an ironclad thing to say, in both the case of mcdougal and this. >> well -- >> right? they can just say, like, it didnt work out. we didnt publish it. >> and you know what? that could well be -- >> im not saying -- im not impugning it, im ju...

People during the campaign when it appears he could have been playing a very important campaign role -- stop and shut down bad, negative publicity. in fact, there is some language in the warrant that specifically asks for all his communications with donald trump personally and all communications with others in the trump campaign about negative publicity that might arise during the run-up to the election. so if michael cohen was having conversations -- lets just -- i dont want to speculate and sa...