under criminal investigation. i'll talk about all of that have with senator jack reid of the senate intelligence and armed services committee and our special correspondents and analysts are standing by. let's got to our cnn white house correspondent pamela brown and our legal analyst jeffrey toobin. pamela, we'll get to the new reporting from twurnl in a moment, but let's start with the new information about the hush money payment. what are you learning? >> reporter: well, wolf, tonight, just as donald trump tries to distance himself from the hush payments to these two women during the campaign, in an interview with fox news, we're learning more about central role that he played in the hush money, a source telling cnn tonight that donald trump was part of the august 20 is a meeting with david pecker, the ceo of ami, who paid off one of the women to suppress her story. trump's attendance was first report by "the wall street journal" in november, but this has added significance now in light of the recently disclosed