Im quoting from that. I cant believe i just had to say that, but its not admissible in court, but it is a potent weapon in the porn Stars Campaign against the president. Stormy daniels tweeting tonight, quote, technically, i didnt sleep with the potus 12 years ago. There was no sleeping, hehe. And he was just a goofy reality tv star. But i digress. People do care that he lied about it, had me bullied, broke laws to cover it, et cetera. And p. S. , im not going anywhere, xoxoxo. Is this really happening . The president may really have met his match in Stormy Daniels. Tonight, im going to talk to one of her friends, who said she and daniels have both been threatened in an effort to keep them quiet. But there is more. In addition to Stormy Daniels, theres the former playboy model who says that she had a tenmonth affair with trump. Karen mcdougal says she had an affair with trump at about the same time as Stormy Daniels. She sold her story to the Parent Company of the national enquirer, which killed that story. Now mcdougal wants out of the 150,000 agreement, so she can speak freely. Theres also former apprentice contestant, Summer Zervos. She says trump groped her in 2006 and she says he defamed her by calling her a liar. Now a judge is refusing to dismiss her lawsuit against him. Even for a president whos no stranger to depositions and lawsuits, this is a lot. And it comes as the president s team is laying the groundwork for what could be a monumental interview with the special counsel, robert mueller, amid serious questions about what exactly it is between the president of the United States and russia. President trump called Vladimir Putin today to congratulate him on his victory in what can only be called a rigged election. We first found out from the kremlin, by the way, what the president apparently didnt do according to Sarah Sanders is condemn the nerve agent poisoning in the uk which the british and our government have blamed on moscow. And theres more. The Washington Post reporting that the president congratulated putin even though his National Security advisers warned him in his briefing, in all capital letters, no less, quote, do not congratulate. But apparently a president who loves nothing more than to talk about his own Electoral College triumph just couldnt keep himself from congratulating the russian dictator on his victory. Well also have the latest on the hunt for a serial bomber in austin, texas, to tell you about. Thats coming up a little bit later on in the show. All right. So here we go. Lets bring in now cnn politics editor at large, chris cillizza. Legal analyst, laura coates, and ana navarro and scott jennings. Ive got to ask, chris, before i get are the floodgates opening . So, first of all, congratulations, don. I just wanted to offer that up. Second, i dont know, i mean, none of these allegations, summer, zervos, katherine mcdougal, and obviously Stormy Daniels, none of these are new. No, no, no, but heres what im asking but yes, but maybe im thinking, this is why theyre silencing, i had this conversation earlier. Maybe theyre trying to silence Stormy Daniels to keep that nda in tact because one woman, two woman, three women, four. And okay, you let her out of hers, maybe you can let me out of mine. So we knew about the allegations prior to the election. What we didnt know, and this is what makes the Stormy Daniels case different and what makes it potentially hugely problematic for trump and the floodgates opening is we know about the 130,000 payment, right . Michael cohen, Donald Trumps lawyer fixer, made a payment through an llc he set up seemingly for that purpose. Why . He says he didnt believe it. Well, unlike all the other allegations he said she said, this is a payment of 130,000. So i think that what youve seen with Stormy Daniels has emboldened these other women that were now seeing come forward to say, wait a minute, i had a very similar setup here. I want to also be able to tell my story. So, yeah, its fascinating because the Stormy Daniels thing seemed totally dismissible way back when. A reality tv star had an affair with he had an affair with someone whos a porn star. Okay, no one voted for donald trump because they thought he was the outstanding moral you know, the example of moral turpitude in america. Well, some people did. They said that he was forgiven and he had asked for forgiveness. True. 130,000. That cohen payment is so central to everything that comes after it. Because its different in kind than what we knew about before. Lets get to the law lady here. To the lawyer. These women are a triple threat, laura. How strong of a case do they have . Really, the woman of the hour is Summer Zervos. Shes got the strongest case right now, because it was her case, its not necessarily about whether or not there was a Sexual Assault, but she has the one advantage that no one else does. Shes got a court of law in new york saying that the president of the United States, the sitting president , is not immune to a civil action in a state court. He can be deposed, potentially. Its potentially a minefield. And the achilles heels to the attorneys were trying to avoid in every other litigation. But Stormy Daniels case also presents its own unique issue for the reasons youve already laid out, john. And that is that the reason that the president of the United States and his team is likely fighting so hard about this one is to avoid the floodgates from opening and to send a very clear signal, if this contract is valid. And theres a strong argument why it would be valid, if this type of contract is valid, its trying to serve as a deterrent for whoever else may come along and try to break it. Remember, hes retained charles harder, who was known for his counsel with hulk hogan in the gawker litigation that brought down gawker and got 100 million plus jury verdict in this case. And so when you think about this spectrum of the people who are very, very strong in their push against the president and why hes chosen his counsel, it really brings you to that last person, mcdougal. Her case may be similar to Stormy Daniels, but its different in one key respect. She doesnt have the advantage of having a contract between a david dennison, aka, donald trump and perhaps Michael Cohen. Its between a Media Company whos required to do what they call the catch and kill. Youre required to never talk about it with anybody else and im never required to publish your story. Thats the weakest of the cases among them, but its certainly its indicative of the fact if whats true, she says Michael Cohen may have been behind the scenes pulling the strings behind this. This all comes down to that the president can now be sued in civil cases, in state court, and there is still a Campaign Finance issue that revolves around all of them. Scott, you know they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Heres Stormy Daniels taking a polygraph test in 2011, which concluded that she was telling the truth an her sexual relationship with donald trump. With a 1 , a 1 chance of deception. Does this photo have any impact . Look, im not sure the alleged affair on probable affair, whatever you want to call it, is having any impact on the president. Look at the nbc news wall street journal from this weekend. The Stormy Daniels story had been out there for a couple of weeks and he has ticked up to 46 job approval. The potential legal impacts are worrying if youre a supporter of the president. You know, depositions that could be coming out, more information about when this was happening and what was going on. It will interactions between stormy and cohen. I mean, these things are worrying, because they could have a Material Impact on how people view the president s interactions with women. Its interesting, though, right now, if you just look at his job approval in the most recent national surveys, it hasnt yet taken a toll. But i do remember, if you look at the micro piece of this, women in suburban america, we saw a lot of them come out in the virginia governors race last year, are they looking at these things saying, im going to send a message in november. If youre a Republican Party operative, through that lens, its very politically troubling. Let me just say this to you. And its the same thing i said during the campaign when maybe the polls werent showing that donald trump was leading or even catching on. I would say, i hear people all the time sort of whispering to me, hey, i like that guy and im going to vote for him. I said, i dont know whats going on here, but i think he has a chance. So you know what people are talking about in every single facet of my life, no matter the demographic . You know what theyre talking about . Stormy daniels. Every Single Person from my 70somethingyearold mother to my 20somethingyearold niece. Theyre all talking about Stormy Daniels. Ana, the polygraph report, which was given to cnn by michael avenatti, daniels attorney had three pertinent questions, okay . I cant believe i have to say this on tv, but these are the facts. Around july of 2006, did you have vaginal intercourse with donald trump . Stormy daniels answered yes. Next question, around july of 2006, did you have unprotected sex with donald trump . Stormy daniels, yes. And finally, did trump say you would get on the apprentice . Stormy daniels answered yes. So daniels replied yes to all three questions. The first two were analyzed to be truthful. The third question was inconclusive according to the polygraph examiner. So whats this tell you . Oh, my god. What does this tell me . Look, it tells me that we are living in an epoch of political surrealism, to hear you read that off the teleprompter, i almost feel like you are auditions for a part in house of cards. What you are reading is insane. That we are talking about this is insane. That we are not talking about like today is six months after maria devastated puerto rico. That were not talking about things like the march 5th deadline of daca passed. That were not talking about things like the russian election. You know, it is maddening, because weve got to talk about this. Look i absolutely think that it is having a political effect. And not maybe not as much on trump, because we already all knew that he was no moral compass. What it does, though, is it really harms the Republican Party. The Republican Party has billed itself as the Family Values Party for decades. And now, how can you lecture anybody about family values when you look the other way and remain silent in light of this . When you are saying that he gets mulligan after mulligan. Where i do think that it has got to be, its got to be affecting donald trump is in his personal life. It is in his personal life. Look, ive got to think that Melania Trump has got to be mad as hell about everything thats going on. And perhaps its you know, your question about why is he fighting this so hard. One is, the floodgate issue that you mentioned and another one is because its got to be wreaking havoc in his personal life, frankly. Yeah. I agree with you again. Another conversation i had, why are they fighting . And i said, it probably has a lot to do with the first lady and number two, floodgates opening up. Its got to be terribly humiliating for her. Stormy daniels tweeted this today. Technically i didnt sleep with the potus 12 years ago. There was no sleeping hehe and he was a goofy Television Reality star. But i digress, people do care that he lied about it, had me bullied, broke laws to cover it up, et cetera. And ps, i am not going anywhere, xoxoxo. Is she trolling the president despite a threat of 20 million that she doesnt appear to be afraid of him. Michael cohen . Clearly, shes not going anywhere. And her lawyer seems like a ubiquitous presence now across all media platforms. So theyve obviously dug in and they think theyve got ahold of something. I think its not yet proven about the bullying and not yet proven about shes accused the president of being a criminal. Those are allegations and those are not yet proven. The affair, i think people assume happened, and it doesnt appear to be having an impact. So theyre going to have to take it a step farther and actually prove these allegations. My advice to the white house all along, you know, since this story broke was, it strikes me that given the kind of lawyer she has and given the kind of situation this is, all the facts are coming out. Theres going to be no way to suppress this forever. So at some point, somebody, probably cohen is going to be the first one, is going to have to step forward and say, okay, okay. I find it inconceivable that the entirety of the facts arent going to come out. All right, laura, i want you to respond, but just listen. Right now, its not in a courtroom. I dont know if it will ever go to court. But in the court of Public Opinion, you mentioned her attorney, theyre winning. Theyre playing the reality show, i dont know if its a game or whatever, but they are really playing it well and he does well on television and people love watching it, shes tweeting it and shes trolling him. The court of Public Opinion right now, Stormy Daniels winning. Go ahead, laura. Well, welcome to the show. Thats what in fact is happening here. But whether thats going to persuasive in a court of law is a very different story. But make no mistake, you have not heard from Stormy Daniels directly today but for today. And why is that . What she did is cast out a very long line that you can call bait. It was the equivalent of her saying, here, kitty, kitty, here, kitty. Make no mistake of what happened today, Summer Zervos case was not thrown out of court. Why . Not because a court is trying to figure out whether or not a Sexual Assault happened between her and then citizen donald trump, but because he called her a liar. Thats another way for people to pursue these types of actions. The idea of defamation cases getting you into courts. Shes probably trying to cast out this line, trying to have this bait out in front of the mouse hole and hoping hell take it. Because if he does, in fact, call her a liar, what can you do . You have to then litigate whether the underlying actions actually happened. Its another way for her to try to get in the court of Public Opinion one, but also, more pressingly, in the court of law. Theyre borrowing examples from one another. Whether its conscious or subconscious, its happening. And this playbook will get passed around to im sure several other people. Remember, avenatti just told you last week, that there were about, what, six women who had come to him with similar stories . That playbook is probably getting passed around. If he takes the bait, hell be hook, line, and sinker. All right, stand by, everyone. When we come back, President Trump facing a looming possibility of an interview with robert mueller. 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