reporter jacob weisberg who was the first journalist to speak to her in 2016 right after the rnc. daniels sent this confidentiality agreement to weisberg about how things get to press or not and we've called on you before on this. thanks for being here tonight. >> glad to be here, ari. >> seven years later, here we are again. it's amazing. we learned from different witnesses. first, your thoughts as we prepare for the trial. >> well, i think there's a tendency because this is far from the worst thing trump's done to dismiss it as unimportant, but it is important because it was a -- it was a premeditated cover-up plot to influence the election and the timing of the context is very important. after the "access hollywood" tape was released this was a real vulnerability for trump and that's why he ended up paying the hush money and that's why he ended up doing it in the way he did. i think it's going to be a tough convict for alvin bragg to get because it would be a pretty good defense for trump if he could convince the jury that he paid this money to save his family embarrassment. th