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Tonight from the "new york times." special counsel's office was commented for comment -- commented for comment. contacted for comment by the "new york times" tonight. special counsel's office did not respond to requests for comment. also jay sekulow, who's a lawyer for mr. trump, declined to comment on these. if you'd listen closely to that live interview we just did with michael schmidt there, it seems that this -- these questions, this list of 49 questions derived the way he described his reporting process, seems to have derived from discussions between the special counsel's office and trump...

>> i'm assuming so, yeah. >> the white house has denied the claims of the affair. the enquirer's parent company told the times it decided not to print her story because it could not verify details. acknowledged discussing the allegations with cohen as part of its reporting process. nancy, i want to go to you on this theme of non-disclosure agreements is a very important one in trump's -- president trump's life, mr. trump's life as a businessman. what are the potential ramifications for the way these suits are unfolding and how this might play out for the president in the courts? >> well, non-d...

>> why do you think it was that it was after donald trump was the republican nominee that they came back? >> they wanted to squash the story. >> you are saying they wanted to protect donald trump? >> i'm assuming so, yeah. >> the white house has denied the claims of the affair. the enquirer's parent company told the times it decided not to print her story because it could not verify details. acknowledged discussing the allegations with cohen as part of its reporting process. nancy, i want to go to you on this theme of non-disclosure agreements is a very important one in trump's -- president tr...

Knowing what is knowable. and if it's knowable, that is so basic, but why put yourself in a position of having to defend it? >> kennedy: there's a group of congressmen, especially the ones that been there for a long time i congressman hastings were used do the structures of congress set up to protect these guys. >> lisa: is talking about those structures. you think this changes because there's been legislation introduced, bipartisan legislation to bring more transparency to disclose an individual's names involved in some of these sediments. just to bring structural changes to the reporting pro...

Should be taken so seriously to the point that perhaps they should step down even before allegations are proven, if allegations are credible then that alone merits perhaps members of congress stepping down. >> i think that some of that is overblown. i think you have seen incidents in the past where members of congress have been accused of something and it has been so egregious that those members have stepped down because of the pressure that has been put on them and/or because of the fact that they know and admitted that they have done something wrong. i think that has happened in the past. i ...