Page 283 - Covers News Today

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 organization and actively using them to try to find out whether there are any stories brewing out there and sending them after to kill them. >> jill, did tha...

Hillary clinton. she failed a secret fbi lie detector. she gained 103 pounds. it just goes on and on. she is corrupt, racist, criminal. they did donald trumps dirty work for him, it seems? >> they did. one of the -- when you own a media company, you own it for a couple of reasons. to make money, which pecker is good at. to have influence over public opinion, what people think. looking at that wall of covers, when you are at a newsstand, an airport or a train station, and ami owns vast properties...

Kind of forgotten until you should us this morning, how withering "the national inquirer" was in the lead-up to the election last year. ive covered "the inquirer" before, in the case involving bill cosby, youre looking at some of those covers right now. you look at two people directly referenced in a criminal investigation that we now find out there is immunity given to the ceo of american media, referenced in the information that michael cohen pled guilty to, david pecker, and as weve been disc...

Published. it was something frustrating 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 organization and actively using them to try to find out whether there are any stories brewing out there and sending them after to kill them. >> jill, did that include stories against opponents, commissioning stories against pe...

They claimed that ted cruz had affairs. no evidence for this. ted cruz denies it. they published a number of covers on hillary clinton, one reading hillarys hitman tells all. they have circulation of 350,000 in 2016. how many votes did he win by? 80,000. >> if you flip half of those hillary would be president. they have a close long-term relationship that predates the campaign. i think this -- one of the mysteries of this prosecution is they had cohen pretty dead to rights on tax evasion and ban...

>> i encouraged barack obama to give thought to the presidency early on. i thought he could bring people together. the longer youre in washington, the less viable you are. >> america is hungry for change. america wants something new. >> held by the media hungry for a fresh face and a good story, hes graced the covers of "time" and "newsweek" and endorsed by oprah. a far cry from how hes treated in washington where hes 88th on the list of seniority. >> the clintons said youre not qualified to be ...

Its irrelevant. the point is, he was giving political speech. the first amendment kind of covers that. and a natural security tool, the security clearance, which has never been politicized before, is sudden by being used as a tool to either stifle dissent, because thats really what john brennan was doing. he wasnt violating any security regulation. he was simply speaking out against the president. and, possibly, to silence others. possibly even including people inside the intelligence community ...

This is just the start. i think youll start to hear as other defendants are charged what happened. we havent heard from mike flynn in a while. theres a reason hes being quiet and hasnt been sentence pd. thats because shes cooperating. >> jack, court filings show the special counsels office is almost three times the number of exhibits for the next manafort criminal trial in d.c. what does that tell you about muellers preparation? >> his preparation is doubtless, exquisite, but to this earlier poi...

Doubtless exquisite. but, you know, to this earlier point i want to emphasize something. the idea that this is not about the president, i mean, in manaforts defense suggested not so, you know, between the -- under the covers here this was, in fact, all about the president. i think the tactic they employed was what lawyers call a nullification approach where essentially they didnt put on a defense. theyre not trying to rebut the voluminous evidence that the prosecution put forward in the form of ...

>> this is not a liberal america and conservative america. theres the united states of america. theres not a black america and a white america and latino america and asian america. theres the united states of america. >> i encouraged barack obama to give thought to the presidency oerl early on. i thought he could bring people together. the longer youre in washington, the less viable you are. >> america is hungry for change. america wants something new. >> held by the media hungry for a fresh fac...