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Karen mcdougal are suing to get out of cof contracts. mcdougal is suing the national enquirer to get out of a contract that paid her $150,000 and restricts her ability to speak publically. she claims the presidents attorney michael cohen was secretly involved with her talks with the enquirers parent company and the company showed new signs of interest after trump secured his partys nomination. >> once donald trump won the republican nomination, you are saying ami suddenly came back to you with i...

And thats when keith brought it to ami. >> so did you know that keith, your attorney, was going to go to ami, which is the parent company which owns "national enquirer" and other magazines? >> he said ami. i didnt know what ami was. we have this company that, you know, theyll probably want to hear your story. so -- >> and what was the thought of selling the story in your mind? >> to get my truth out there. i wasnt looking for money, clearly, but when he said, its worth many millions, im like, yo...

>> you told them your story. >> they actually didnt think it was very credible, even though off the record they said dylan believes your story, but clearly when they came back they said it wasnt believable. >> dylan? >> dylan howard. hes with ami. so they had like a 12-hour window to -- im probably skipping around, im sorry, 12-hour window to accept whether they wanted the story or not. >> once donald trump won the republican nomination, youre saying ami suddenly came back to you with interest i...

I get the work and my story doesnt have to come out. >> if donald trump hadnt been running for president do you believe this deal would have been made with ami, knowing what you know now. >> probably not. >> youre convinced now this was an effort to do a favor for donald trump in the last few months of the presidential race? >> unfortunately, yes. >> and well hear more claims about the president tonight when stormy daniels speaks out. her attorney tweeting out about the "60 minutes" interview to...

Sex. one more point about mcdougal before we move on, she talked about this payment from the "national enquirer," and the idea she was paid in order to protect trump. heres what she said to anderson cooper. >> why do you think they squashed the story? >> back then or now? >> now. >> they didnt want to hurt him. >> do you think its because of a personal relationship with the guy who runs ami who is friends with donald trump? >> correct. >> this is the idea of catch and kill. the story gets caught...

Story to ami, some people are going to think you wanted money and wanted to damage the president. >> i voted for the president, i voted for donald, why would i want to damage him? howie: joining us. emily jashinsky, and leslie marshall. she was contradicting herself on motivation. she says donald trump was sweet, respectful, kind, caring. ies she reveal swag was their secrets? emily: i dont have a good reason to believe hes lying but he should have pressed her more on the money. other than that ...

Daniels and mcdougal differ significantly. but the overarching mission of the trump team is the same, to silence the women who entered the agreement. mcdougal entered a licensing agreement, the same way a music artist may license his or her song. she licensed her story and gave that exclusive license as a work of art, so to speak, to ami, the company that owns "the national inquirer." so the goal is to get out of that licensing agreement based on three arguments, two of which are very significan...

>> so look, there are lawyers, if you talk to gloria allred or a number of the prominent people who make their living off of deals of various kinds in this space, who say, look, confidentiality and making sure stories dont come out can be to the benefit of individuals. what karen mcdougal reveals is this can have a heavy burden. she readily admits she was an adult, shed the agreement. she knew at the time it was likely ami was not going to run this story, but she also had to deal with changing c...

With trumps personal attorney cohen, to pay $130,000 as part of the confidentiality agreement. according to mcdougals lawsuit, she had no idea davidson was informing cohen about her deal to sell the story to the national inquirer. both women say they were later intimidated to keep them from talking. >> put out a statement saying that you can talk to the media, you are free. >> yeah, i saw that statement, too. according to their attorney, i cant. there will be financial ruin. >> reporter: a paren...

Who he may have been involved with, whether its in karen mcdougals case, she would pay for her own flights, book her own hotel rooms and be reimbursed, she said, by president trump. oftentimes, keith schiller would be a go-between, picking people up or phone calls would be made to keith schiller in order to communicate with donald trump. >> i think karens conversations with both of us reveal a very well oiled machine. and thats the secret meetings. its the body guard. its the in the moment conce...