these payments occurred, that michael cohen was involved, that american media, the publisher of the national enquirer was involved, we ve known all that since august of last year. what we re getting today say snippet of how involved the president was when he was then candidate donald trump. this comes from the document. this is the fbi agent writing. it says i have learned in the days following the access hollywood video cohen exchanged a series of calls, text messages, and emails with keith davidson, at the time he was stormy daniels attorney. david pecker and dylan howard of american media, the publisher of the national enquirer. donald trump and hope hicks who was press second for trump s campaign. he continues writing saying based on the timing of these calls and the content of the text mess and emails i believe some of these communications concerned the need to prevent clifford, stephanie clifford that stormy daniels legal name, from going public. particularly in the wake of