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Out of mind with everything else. and deep inside i did have a lot of guilt but i still continued. >> the white house has denied the affair. four days before the election "the wall street journal" revealed the national inquirer had purchased mcdougals story only to hide it from the public. a process known as catch and kill. ami a parent company of the national inquirer is run by david pecker. hope hicks told "the wall street journal," quote, they had no knowledge of any of this. todays recording...

>>were you in love with him? >> i was, yeah. >> and do you think he was in love with you? >> he was, yeah. >> did donald trump ever say to you that he loved you? >> all the time. he always told me he loved me. >> now, president trumps lawyer rudy giuliani was part of the team that decided to waive privilege and mr. -- an attorney issued a statement saying, when the recording is heard, any attempt at spin cannot change what is on the tape. and a source, as i said, close to his legal team told us ...

>>were you in love with him? >> i was, yeah. >> and do you think he was in love with you? >> he was, yeah. >> did donald trump ever say to you that he loved you? >> all the time. he always told me he loved me. >> now, president trumps lawyer rudy giuliani was part of the team that decided to waive privilege and mr. -- an attorney issued a statement saying, when the recording is heard, a heard it will not hurt michael cohen.ny any attempt at spin cannot change what is on the tape and a source clo...

Sources tonight say michael cohen recorded that conversation with then-candidate donald trump, a conversation about a payment involving the owner of "the national enquirer," and a former "playboy" model, karen mcdougal who claimed she had an affair with the president. the fbi seized the audio from michael cohen, and cohens attorney now saying when the recording is heard, it will not hurt michael cohen. any attempt at spin cannot change what is on the tape. abcs kyra phillips leading us off. >> r...

Statements on reports of the tape. here is how it reads. obviously, there is an ongoing investigation and we are sensitive to that. suffice it to say that when the recording is heard, it will not hurt had cohen. any attempt at spin cannot change what is on the tape." how do you interpret that? >> i think its very straightforward. if weve learned anything you want to always record your fixer. obviously michael cohen understood very early on in his relationship with donald trump that this was a ma...

Trump between 2006 and 2007. >> a source familiar with the presidents legal strategy confirmed that the president did not know michael cohen was recording him on that tape and cnn reports, one source told them, when informed about the recording, trump said i cant believe michael would do this to me. donald trumps lawyer, rudy giuliani, clachled the recording is a good inning. he said it is powerful evidence. rudy giuliani says it is less than two minutes long and proves he did not know about the...

>> i will do anything to protect mr. trump. >> reporter: cohen once said he would take a bullet for his number one client. >> im obviously very loyal and very dedicated to mr. trump. >> reporter: and the president has told me his former fixer would never turn against him. >> i just wanna know if youre worried hes gonna cooperate with federal investigators. >> no im not worried because i did nothing wrong. >> got it. >> reporter: but now, under increasing pressure from federal prosecutors, source...

Giuliani, clachled the recording is a good inning. he said it is powerful evidence. rudy giuliani says it is less than two minutes long and proves he did not know about the payment before his conversation with michael cohen. michael cohens lawyer disagrees tweeting when the recording is heard, it will not hurt mr. cohen. any attempt at spin cannot change what is on the tape. >> amid is back and forth rachel maddow has just broken a major piece of news about the trump tape. we know michael cohens...

Fox is also reporting that by speaking about the recording, the presidents legal team here has waived privilege. >> one person familiar with the situation told me this evening that this was deemed privileged by the special master, but that the presidents attorneys waived the privilege. i just spoke with rudy giuliani who is the presidents attorney who said he wasnt sure if the special master had deemed it privileged or not, but effectively they waived privilege today by speaking about what was o...

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