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What more can you share with us? >> i can share that the arbitration was won in the the president's favor. i would refer to you president president's outside counsel for any details beyond that. >> that's a confirmation of everything that stormy daniels has said, that, you know -- that it's happened -- or that michael cohen paid the $130,000. how long can the white house pretend this isn't an issue? this is for mark. >> yeah, i mean, it's -- it's an issue. the issue is whether they can set this aside or not. and all the salacious details come out. it's inconceivable that trump didn't know that...

Blah, blah, blah. you're right. i have the agreement right here -- or the complaint right here. >> they have the right to do that according to the agreement. >> we should point out this this civil lawsuit may cause in whole agreement to be determined to be just voidable. the court may say the agreement doesn't have to be adhered to and she may be able to tell her story and listening to her attorney all day it's clear she has a story to tell that may include photographs and text messages. so it's not at all certain that it's just he said she said. there may be some other form of evidence that s...

For her to get $130,000. if she breaks any part of this agreement, she is potentially liable to trump for 1 million dollar. and i think that's atrocious. and this agreement shows just the issue we have been highlighting and the whole me too and times up movement. women are silenced by the non-closure agreements and not only can they not talk about the abuse that maybe occurred, then they can't p even go into an open courtroom and litigate the matter. so then the matter has to be more secretive because the the private arbitrators have providence or jurisdiction over the matters. it's atrocious ...

Let's discuss this now with cnn legal analyst areva martin the author of "make it rain" and criminal defense attorney mark nija. let's talk about president and the porn star. with a non-disclosure, areva, like this, how important is it whether or not the president signed the document? would that invalidate the agreement? >> i don't think that's the strongest argument in the lawsuit that's been filed by stormy daniels' attorney. obviously, it would have been malpractice for her lawyers to file this lawsuit and not raise that issue. i think the bigger issue for me in this case is the -- the liqu...