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Now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. new details emerging about the investigation into president trumps personal attorney, michael cohen. several people familiar with the probe tell nbc news that federal investigators have requested all communications between cohen and david picker and dillon howard, top executives at american media incorporated. that is the company which owns the national enquirer and other

Ms. clifford and ms. mcdougle that in situations like this, he has used his money to get them to not disclose what he has apparently engaged in sex and how many other times he might have done this. it does bear to his credibility and to his propensities towards harassing and groping women as he said on the entertainment nightly or whatever. >> "access hollywood," excuse me. >> im looking at the letter, more than a dozen pages in length. you say, we can assure you we have no interest in mr. trump...

For trump. we could spend the next two years talking about your article, which the timing could not be more amazing. its fascinating on multiple levels. explain the relationship between president trump and the publication. >> well, david picker is the chief executive of major media, the parent company of the national inquirer. and theyve been close to decades. going back to when picker ran a sort of -- publication for trump called "trump style." and in a very open way, picker told me when i was ...

Especially hillary clinton has been totally savage. >> just be clear does president trump have the ability to either kill a story in the national inquirer or for that matter get something published? because in his own tweet he did seem to say or imply that he could have gotten him killed but chose not to. >> my experience has been in david picker killing stories that are possibly damaging to trump. going so far as to pay the play boy play mate of the year from 1998 to stay silent about a relatio...

Three people at the very top of the administration calling me. >> reporter: they first lobby accusations friday morning. >> he appears to have a fragile, impetuous, child-like ego weve seen over and over again. its like he cant take it. >> reporter: this was the story the national inquirer ultimately ran in june. he said the tabloid hounded her family to get the story. >> they were calling my children. they were calling -- >> youre talking about the national inquirer? >> reporter: the president ...

On milania trump sort of slapping donald trumps hand away and picker said i didnt see that. and everyone got the message just keep moving along. this is not a story the inquirers going to run with. >> right. i think all of us who follow the news were quite aware of the viral video where milania trump slapped her husbands hand away. but at this meeting, david picker said he wasnt aware of it it. he said it twice. and his subordinates got the message this was not going to be in the inquirer. and t...

About that. he paid a play mate to stay silent? >> this is a woman named karen mcdoingal. she was the play mate of the year in 1998 and a little more than a year ago she was starting to shop a story to tabloid and anyone who might pay her regarding what she said was an affair she had hwith donald trup after he was married to milania. let me emphasize that i dont know if any such affair took place. but what david picker did was he hired mcdoogle and paid her $150,000 on the condition she not say ...

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