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Trumps attorney, cohen, to keep her from undermining trumps presidential campaign. >> you know, one thing i can say for sure is that a wide circle of sources at this company, ami, which publishes "the national enquirer," say that this was a de facto process. that they were aware that this was happening and that it was happening specifically to appease donald trump. >> reporter: in a statement, american media tells cnn that mcdougal has not been silenced, saying she can respond to media inquiries...

Mcdougal, and say, were going to pay you for your story about donald trump, but then were not going to publish. we are going to kill it. well catch it and kill it. and when i interviewed david pecker, who is mr. trumps friend and the head of american media, including "national enquirer," he said very explicitly to me, we did this to help donald trump. we paid to silence her because we wanted to help my friend, donald trump. one of the stories that ronans been doing a lot of reporting on is how e...