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>> lets talk a little bit more about what we learn about the national enquirer how it. apparently they are catching and killing stories, burying the news that could be damaging to president trump. at the same time, here is what they put out. these are some of the kpafrpgs of the covers. hillarys full medical file. six months to leave. ted cruz father linked to jfk assassination. you get the point. is there is there a legal line they are crossing? >> i think it would be a stretch to implicate the...

Story that came up in the campaign which the president referenced while campaigning, casting legitimacy on this, suggesting the "national enquirer" would win a pulitzer prize. who does this play to? bring it to today, to the last 10, 15 years. what role was it playing? who was reading this? >> whats remarkable is as crazy as these covers, are, some of them are pretty tame compared to what you see online now, whether its from greatway pundit or info wars. but they seem to be ahead of the game in ...

This presidency. when i was in singapore covering the trump/kim summit, i asked the president a question and the first thing he asked me was am i going to be on the cover this week? it turned out he was on the cover that week standing next to kim jong-un but he reads "time" magazine, he grew up with it, just like he reads "the new york times" because he grew up with it. its something that he turns to every week. and the fact is we look back at the covers that presidents have been on and richard ...

That. they have the stories what is the expression -- >> catch and kill. >> neil: do a lot of publishers -- >> ami, the owner of the national inquirer, they own practically ever tabloid, this is their thing. they do this in hollywood. they buy the rights for lives and stories and put them in a drawer. >> neil: when they do a catch and kill, the cynical view is here that theyre very close to donald trump. dont want to do anything to embarrass donald trump. so just table it. >> yeah. look, the nat...

Payments but also other settlements. the way the national enquirer appear tuesday have worked is they had this catch and kill policy, wrab they would pay people for their stories in an effort to prevent them from ever being published. it was something frustrated for writers who worked there because you got a big scoop and then you have your boss out there saying no, this can never be published. and what the reporting reveals and court finding revealed is this pattern that cohen had with this org...

Him a little giggly and distracting. im 45 years old. as far as that means im just 9 years old times five. its funny. his name is pecker. thats funny. when it comes to the pickle that mr. pecker has put the president in, it is sort of worth letting it out. giggle through it. let that happen. acknowledge that its funny. then you do still have to kind of soberly grapple with the fact this guy, mr. pecker, has long been a really central part of donald trumps life. particularly mr. trumps carefully ...

The rnc in 2016. >> this was a magazine that, frankly, in many respects, should be very respected. they got oj. they got edwards. i mean, if that was the "new york times," they would have gotten pulitzer prizes for their reporting. ive always said, why didnt the "national inquirer" get the pulitzer prize for edwards and o.j. simpson and all of these things? >> perhaps no surprise, the president likes the "inquirer." look at the stories they were pub you been lishing befo publishing before the el...

Distracting. im nine years old times five. its funny, his name is picker. when it comes to the pickle mr. picker put the president in, i think it is sort of worth letting it out, giggle through it. let that happen. acknowledge that its funny. but then you do still have to kind of soberly grapple with the fact that this guy, mr. picker, has long been a really central part of donald trumps life and particularly mr. trumps carefully managed public image. during the presidential campaign, it became ...

Reported to not only be cooperating with prosecutors but to have been granted immunity in conjunction with doing so, it -- and the type of leverage youre describing here relates to the serving president of the united states, it raises all sorts of very big questions that are more than about the "inquirer"s competitive advantage in the marketplace. one of the things im wondering here, jeff, is whether theres a financial element here, a business leapt here? i mean, i find it hard to tell whether o...

The "national enquirer" has been weirdly supportive of donald trump. and this is sort of 17th century or 18th century style support from a newspaper if you can call it that. david pecker really savaged people that he saw as enemies of donald trump. take a look at some of these covers that were showing. hillary framed trump family, obamas secret plot to impeach trump, ted cruz fall linked to jfk assassination. crazy stuff. but even if people didnt buy them, lots of people saw them. give your pers...