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CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield August 31, 2019 15:19:00

westerhaut may have signed one herself. we know that she was sitting outside of the oval office for two and a half years. she was surely privy to a number of sensitive discussions, whether it's about the president's family or about goings on at the white house, and definitely privy to the president's moods day in and day out, and so what we see here is the president on the one hand suggesting that he has forgiven westerhaut trying to curry favor with her perhaps so she doesn't go on to bad mouth him in the future, but also issuing a fairly thinly veiled threat here when he references other lawsuits he has carried out against individuals with confidentiality agreements. that doesn't really seem to smack of forgiveness, particularly after the president forced westerhaut to resign. >> so david, thinly veiled or, you know, pretty blatant? i mean the president makes reference to a confidential agreement, a, i mean, is this an agreement that may be typical when working for the trump organization? but is that fairly unusual when

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