donald trump and a former playboy playmate. what's really important, they detail a payoff scheme to keep the story from going public just before the 2016 election. i want to discuss this with more with cnn political analyst and "new york times" reporter maggie haberman. the story here isn't the extramarital affair between donald trump and someone else. >> it is, but net the big takeaway. >> the takeaway is the "national enquirer" and the publisher, a close friend of the president, paying to keep this quiet. what we now have here is a pattern. michael kohn, the president's personal lawyer paid stormy daniel to keep quiet of an alleged affair she had with the president as well. >> stormy daniels has been coy about what happened. gave an interview to "intouch" in 2011. michael kohn when he had done this, he insisted it was false,