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The karen mcdougal. the white house is denying this. the bigger part of the story is about how donald trump and his allies tried to keep it out of the press. >> right. this is a system of clandestine meetings and intermediaries in the media and legal packets that kept stories quiet. in this case there is a woman at the heart of it that freely admits that she signed up for the silence but says thats been onerous and she didnt understand the implications and regrets that. >> apparently they paid h...

Former senior editor of the enquirer. he says, we never printed a word about trump without had his approval. how do donald trump have that influence at the enquirer. >> i dont know how literally he means trump gives approval. we dont report in this piece donald trump ordered this operation. however, david pecker, the head of ami on the record said he is a loyal friend of donald trumps. and here again, you know we talked to six former employees who said that this is a publication that was doing w...

Trump do, that she interacted with for example with melanias bedroom in trump tower when she was there. >> and she was often invited to events that donald trump was holding for various, the ivanka launch and the like and golf tournaments and was at one point actually seated at the table with one of the presidents children. >> the story suggests that as you say, these infidelity and the efforts subsequently to conseal the infidelities were very much entwined in his professional events and profess...

We gave the enquirer and the parent company, ami, and the white house ample tunt for input. thats in the comment. the white house says never a relationship and this is fake news. the ami says it wasnt credible. >> why did she go public now? >> she talked about over the past year -- this is present day on the record. she did feel she had to say this, even as frightened as she was, seeing women come forward, even though she acknowledged its different since it was consensual she talked about the me...

We have documents suggesting it was clearly donald trump. and she said the end result was explo explo exploitative. we know of mull tiple instances. >> there is a release. cash and release? >> catch and kill. when a company acquires the rights of the story with the intelligence of burying it and not running it. the media company in this case is clear in saying we didnt run this because it wasnt credible to us. this is the company that owns the national enquirer. however, we spoke to six former e...

Businessman, a playboy playmate, the karen mcdougal. the white house is denying this. the bigger part of the story is about how donald trump and his allies tried to keep it out of the press. >>s in a system of clandestine meetings and intermediaries in the media and legal packets that kept stories quiet. in this case there is a woman at the heart of it that signed up for the silence but says thats been on russ she didnt understand the implications and regrets that. >> apparently they paid her $1...

Other magazines, mr. pecker. but not just any foreign country, but our primary enemy, russia. the real issue for me is, what do they have on donald trump? donald trump obviously knows they have something, thats why hes doing all of the things that he is not doing. and consequently we have to rely on robert mueller for the time being to get to the truth and find out just how badly compromised the president of the united states is. >> look, in ronan farrows report, he also speaks with publisher of...

The president says this didnt happen. false information doesnt mean its not damaging. this story in "the new yorker" is really detailed. it lays out some i think realtime notes or letter that ms. mcdoogle had written about her relationship with president trump. the key is that there was an effort to squash this put forward by ami which is very friendly toward president trump. its going to raise a lot of questions about, in addition to the campaign finance questions that came up around michael ko...

>> theyve acquired the limited life rights to any affair with a then married man that she had. in the last year with the election, contact had been intermittent. they seemed the resume interest. any time there was an interest she would speak to the press, since the stormy daniels broke, theres been a renewed interest to have her stein contracts. >> is there any indication theyve had an interest in publishing the story? >> look, ami had very ample opportunity for input and comment in this piece a...

And she did. >> she said she feels trapped in her silence. perhaps shes free to speak now? is this a legal question but might we hear from karen mcdougal? >> she did speak on the record with this story. the distinction is she spoke quite volcanobly. it is from the affair of that written testimony. she said she is terrified of retaliation. theres an interesting he said she said here. ami says she can now speak because of an amendment to the contract after the election. they acquired these limited...