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This report but youre talking to former workers at ami who have a different story? >> basically former workers are saying, this happened that hush money was paid, and the story was killed. thats according to "the new yorker." radar online, a tabloid also owned by ami, published a story outlining the deal, which included a memo, an e-mail, and a report of a lie detector test which they say the doorman took after he made hi claims. the tabloid says he passed that test. ami, which owns "the nationa...

Story it, smells. is that illegal if it werent for a campaign season going on. >> no, its not. if youre going to pay her -- what did you pitch to her? did you tell her you were going to run stuff? thats the crux of the lawsuit, she got snowed by a combination of her former lawyer and that with michael cohen in cahoots with ami. >> breaking news on michael cohen. "the washington post" is now reporting right now trumps allies worry federal investigators may have seized conversations recorded by mi...

Arranging payments to eem through the "national enquire enquirer"s ownership to keep stories out of the public eye for political purposes? >> so the answer to that is michael cohen would be trying to do an end run around campaign finance laws so instead of the direct individual contribution that weve heard about thats been alleged that he did to stormy daniels in the amount of $130,000, putting aside the salaciousness and who characterize about the underlying facts of this doorman, its the idea ...

Times," and rick, former under secretary of state for public diplomacy and former managing editor for time magazine. barbara mcquade is still with us, of course. nick, let me start with you since your paper had a lot of this report being today. your thoughts? >> well, look, the important thing is not the affair and the rumor which were not going to discuss too much because its unverified. >> right. >> we cant tell if its true. an apparent fact here is that the presidents lawyer had worked with a...

Today we got another report of a trump related hush money payment. according to articles in the "new yorker" and the "associated press," american media incorporated the parent company of the "national enquirer" allegedly paid a former trump tower doorman $30,000 to keep a salacious story quiet. the trump organization denied the story and says that the doorman is pushing a false story. nbc news has not confirmed the story and reached out to the white house for comment. this report is the second e...

$150,000 for the rights to her story. she alleged she had a nearly year long affair with trump. allegations he denies. michael cohen its reported was in touch with ami while they were negotiating the deal with mcdougal as federal investigators are examining how cohen might have played a role in quashing stories about his boss and his relationship with the chairman of the parent company david pecker and chief content officer dillon howard. federal investigators have requested all communications b...

Scenes and has a huge arsenal of information and evidence. hes sifting through it now. were ultimately going to find out what he has of value and who are going to be the targets in the crosshairs. >> lets try to be nice now. michael cohen, hes not a great lawyer, would he know he was breaking the law arranging third party payments to keep stories out of aply campaign? >> yeah, he would know that. its not that difficult to know the timing is suspect. if you have somebody like donald trump as your...

In 2016. she alleged a 2006 affair with donald trump. that story also never ran. pecker once described the president as a personal friend and called an attack on trump an attack on ami. heres what we know. when michael cohen was raided this week, fbi agents were looking for records on the mcdougal payment, records on the stormy daniels payment, a payment cohen admitted to facilitating even though hes given no reason as to why he paid her and who came up with the money, and any information or rec...

Post" representative. youre chasing down the story about a doorman who says he was paid money not to tell a story about a love child. what do we know, if anything, any this? >> well, i interviewed that former trump tower doorman today. his name is dino. and he essentially said, look, i took a lie detector test. i was told by executives at the trump org at the time, senior executives, that there was this love child. so it doesnt appear to me that he had first hand information, but he believed thi...

Enquirer," with regard to a story about president trump was leaked to the press. lets put that aside for a second, jim and talk about "the national enquirer" and its parent company. its probably not known to a lot of americans that theres a practice, generally not practiced by organizations like yours or ours or carols where you promise to buy a story or you pay someone for a story simply to kill it? >> yeah, the practice is catch and kill. and its not always and usually isnt applied to politici...