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Had any advance knowledge of the payoffs. cnn national political correspondent m.j. lee is "outfront." >> reporter: tonight, new detail s implicating the president in two infamous hush payments, the "wall street journal" reporting that during the 2016 campaign, donald trump closely coordinated with david pecker to silence two women who claimed they had affairs with trump. federal prosecutors, according to the "journal," had enough evidence to outline trump's role without naming him in an 80-page draft indictment of michael cohen. trump reportedly asked pecker to kill a story involving karen mc...

Illegal is because his attorney was talking to my attorney, so -- >> you're saying michael cohen was talking to keith -- >> was talking to keith without my knowledge. i would assume that maybe he did. i know his attorney did. >> reporter: the journal also reports that the u.s. attorney's office in manhattan has evidence of trump's participation. and people familiar with the investigation have told cnn prosecutors have prepared a draft indictment of his then attorney michael cohen that was more detailed and included additional charges but dropped if when compa it when company decided to plea. a...

Evidence, or, you know, but it's -- our article includes one detail, which is even before michael cohen pleaded guilty, they had what was at one point, at least, an 80-page draft indictment that included more information about what mr. trump was -- what his role was. we know that they, going into that guilty plea, they had that tape in which michael cohen and donald trump were discussing the payments, or buying the karen mcdougal story. and since the plea, michael cohen, as we report, has been speaking to them and presumably opening up a little bit more, you know, as we reported, telling a lit...

A case against michael cohen, i mean, he's pleaded guilty, whatn evidence do they have of this?ui >> well, we don't know all the evidence, or, you know, but el it's -- our article includes onr detail, which is even before michael cohen pleaded guilty, they had what was at one point, at least, an 80-page draft indictment that included more information about what mr. trump was -- what his role was. we know that they, going into that guilty plea, they had that tape in which michael cohen and donald trump were discussing the payments, or buying the karen mcdougal story. and since the plea, michael...

The "wall street journal" reports he played a key role in the payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. let's go to our national political reporter, mj lee, working this story for us. mj, what's the latest? >> wolf, we have learned in recent weeks that michael cohen has had numerous meetings with investigators. he has spoken with folks in the southern district of new york, the new york ag's office, and, of course, special counsel robert mueller's office, as well. and now we have these new details showing just how much donald trump himself was involved in these hush payments during the cam...