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A child. so now we are learning from the doorman some details about what he was allegedly trying to claim in his interview with ami, and we have some interesting reporting from my colleague, a little more about just the agreement and what the ramifications for this doorman are. a source in touch with both ami and this doorman says according to the agreement, he can speak about the story itself. so the story being that donald trump had this love child, but what he cannot do is speak about the agr...

I will csay a very important angle is david pepper, the man that is a publisher at ami, we know hes a very big supporter of donald trump and very close to donald trump and hes viewed as someone who would have incentive to help kill a story about someone running for president. hes denying all of this took place. i want to read a part of his statement -- or a statement from ami. it says "ami categorically denies donald trump or michael cohen had anything to do with its decision not to pursue a sto...

Trumps personal life. >> third party beneficiary of a lot of actions. right? david pecker and american media twice accused of paying women or a guy and a woman of -- to quiet the stories. michael cohen accused of paying stormy daniels. the whole russian attack on our election. he was the beneficiary of saying i didnt participate in it in any way and things happen that benefit donald trump that other people do for him and he never knows about it. >> some people are lucky. we have lots more to tal...

Of the company, and this is significant every legal expert told us because it establishes a pattern now. this is the third elicit payment during the election cycle, stormy daniels which was a direct deal with that woman to silence the story that she had and then karen mcdougal story which she first talked to us as well and another example through this same company, a story being caught and killed. >> sources suggest to you that this is somehow part of the matrix of interest in this current warra...

After they contacted ami about the deal wednesday, one of the companys other publications radar online published a story that included a memo about the arrangement and e-mail and a polygraph report which states that he took a lie detector test and passed it and concluded the story was not true and didnt publish it, the deal of $11 million penalty to share the account without permission. the personal trump attorney was in contact. >> we do report that michael cohen according to multiple individua...

Things to establish, even if this was all to benefit the president hypothetically speaking, but michael cohen was doing it to benefit the presidents personal life, that would be a potential out from any election law violations. there are also exemptions to these elecleks law standards but the legal experts we talked to pointed out, if this can be established that this was a pattern and ami were not acting journalistically, those exemptions might not apply. >> not easy. side question. you are bec...

Maybe blunt is saying if i deny everything -- not blunt. graden saying if i deny everything, admit nothing. these are serious criminals. president trump and stormy daniels accused of a consensual affair and denies it. nothing compared to this. >> hes also being accused by association and we have yet to see evidence of this but of intimidating stormy daniels, stephanie clifford. >> right. >> with remember he said a thug that approached her years ago before he was running for president or anything...

Part of a pattern of that close allegiance toward the president. we do report that michael cohen according to multiple individuals involved in this story was making regular calls. now we should say we reached out to michael cohen. he hung up on us a couple of times. we do not get a response from him. he did talk to some other reporters circling the story and confirmed that there was some communication about this. >> the pocket becomes relevant, right? it gets tricky when its ami. catch and kill ...

Wrong thing to do -- >> reporter: several people have now said peckers company bought the right to stories potentially damaging to trump just to keep them out of the public eye, a practice called "catch and kill." and at one point msnbc hosts claimed the white house threatened to launch a hit piece on them in "the enquirer." >> they said, if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike the story. >> reporter: peckers company, a...

National enquirer bought the story, the store would never run. the national enquirer denies that trump had a single hinthino do with killing the story. >> this appears to be one more story of an evident to pay to kill a damaging story about donald trump. in 2015, there was a story they paid $30,000 to one of the doormen at one of trumps building who claimed to have a salacious building about donald trump. the story is he claims that donald trump had a secret child with one of his former employee...