assistant taking the graff also testified she entered contact information for karen mcdougal, a former "playboy" model who claims she had a year-long affair with trump. that she typed in two addresses, a cellphone number and an email address. >> she was hired by the trump organization in 1987. >> reporter: becoming a familiar face to tv audiences on "the apprentice" as the ever president outside his office. and today's personal assistant walking with a cane entered the man hat encourtroom passing her old boss. trump dropping his head when her name was called. her testimony was brief. all the years of record keeping, packing a punch. she kept trump's calendar and contacts and she entered information for porn star stormy daniels including her mobile phone number. and there was nor. of she testified she had a vague recollection of seeing daniels in trump tower in the reception area on the 26th floor. trump denies he had an affair with daniels. but prosecutors say she was p $130,000 to keep quiet before the election and trump falsified business records to cover it up. she also had contact informati

one those involved former "playboy" model karen mcdougal who allegedly had a ten month affair with trump, which trump denied. >> after we had been intimate, he tried to pay me. and i actually didn't know how to take that. >> reporter: the defense argued that mcdougal's $150,000 deal with a mri, which previously owned the "national enquirer," was legitimate. she was paid and featured broadly throughout the publications. but under questioning from prosecutors, pecker said that was meant to disguise the actual purpose, which was to acquire her lifetime rights to her story so it is not published. pecker also acknowledged hiring an election law attorney to review mcdougal's contract. >> the best moment for the prosecution is david pecker saying that he sought legal advice on behalf of his company. that if he continued to do this kind of payment, that it was going to be a campaign violation. that is absolute gold for the prosecution. >> margaret: and robert costa joins us now. bob, it's hard to believe that it is news, it used to be expected, that two candidates trying to persuade voters would

playboy? time to pay off stormy daniels, pecker told trump's lawyer michael cohen, "i am not purchasing this story. i am not going to be involved with a porn star." so instead, michael cohen paid $130,000 in hush money to stormy daniels himself, and trump later repaid him with a series of checks. of course paying off a porn star in installments is technically called the "getting laid-away" plan. [cheering] if you only knew. if you only knew what we just went through to get to that joke. beautiful people. but covering up for trump's affairs was just the tip of the pecker. he used the "national enquirer" to go after trump's campaign rivals with headlines like: "it's over for pervy ted. cruz's five secret mistresses!" that is shocking. also, completely unbelievable. if you're going to make up lies, about ted cruz, keep them realistic, like, "ted cruz caught dumpster diving for new beard." we got a great show for you tonight! my guests are jean smart and "cabaret" star gayle rankin. but when we co

she is a former playboy model, who is said to also have had an affair with mr. trump, and then agreed to sell her story for a $150000.00 about it. however, a magazine who bought it, buried it instead. the story that is not her. david packer. hm. interesting name. huh. he is the publisher of the magazine who paid mcdougal, prosecutors argue he was mr. trump associate and would often do this to silence his critics. do what? well, it's called catch and kill. pay for the exclusive rights to a story and then kill it. instead of doing it. fucker is also a witness in the case. so there you have a, some of the big players that we know of right now. others possibly could be introduced aside from the prosecutors and defense attorneys. those are the people who are going to be really making up this drama. right. but what about the drama itself? what for example, does the state of new york have to prove right about donald trump? that's a very good question. they need to prove that what mr. trump did wasn't just to pay off. that's not enough by itself to show that he committed a felony that had to

that a former "playboy" model karen mcdougal, who claimed to have had a ten month long affair with trump2006, which he denies. >> after we had been intimate, he tried to pin me, and i actually didn't know how to take that. >> reporter: four days before the 2016 election, "the wall street journal" reported that american media, which owned the "enquirer" at the time that had paid mcdougal $150,000 for the rights to her story, which was never published. in the gag order here, the prosecution argued trump should be held in contempt for all of his scathing commentary about this case. trump lawyer todd blanche said his client has been careful with his words. to that, the judge said, that's%

one of them involving a former playboy model. her story was bought and never printed. abc's senior investigative reporter aaron katersky at the courthouse again tonight. >> reporter: today, as donald trump listened intently, the former publisher of "the national enquirer," for the first time, laying out the extraordinary relationship between candidate trump and the sordid supermarket tabloid, describing what he called the confidential arrangement he made with trump and trump's former fixer, michael cohen, to protect trump during the 2016 campaign. david pecker grinning widely as he pointed out trump in the courtroom, the former president smirking back. the two men had been friends for years. but pecker told the jury their relationship changed in 2015, after trump launched his run for president, pecker was summoned to trump tower that august, and in a 20-minute meeting, he said trump and cohen asked me, what can i do and what my magazines can do to help the campaign. pecker testified he pledged to run flattering stories about trump and hit jobs on his opponents, and he

he also ruled jurors can hear from former playboy model karen mcdue dougal, who claims "the national enquirer" paid for her story of an alleged affair with trump only to bury it, a practice known as catch and kill. she will likely be a witness for the prosecution, as will stormy daniels herself. trump denies having affairs with either woman. >> david: aaron, we know that people in the u.s. have such strong opinions, one way or the other, involving donald trump, you have to wonder, how long it's going to take to try to seat a jury in this case. and both prosecutors and the defense will be allowed to e lem nate a certain number of potential jurors here? >> reporter: they will, david, but first, the judge is making sol initial cuts based on the responses to those jury questionnaires. then, the lawyers get to question the remaining potential jurors, one-on-one, each side can cut up to ten people for almost any reason. the judge has set aside two weeks for all of this, and once the testimony gets under way, the trial could last six weeks. >> david: and, of course, aaron, all of this playi

prosecutor, have you published a story about a playboy model having a year-long sexual affair while he was married with a presidential candidate, with that of sold magazines, do you think? >> yes. that would be like national enquirer gold. at the time you enter that agreement you had zero intention of publishing that story? pecker, that's correct. stein glass, and despite the fact that publishing that story would've helped your bottom line, you killed the story because it helped the candidate, donald trump. pecker, yes. pretty damaging testimony. the defense team tried to poke holes in it by suggesting that the national enquirer killed the mcdougal story not to help donald trump, but to help karen mcdougal. defense attorney emil bove. and you were very clear on cross-examination that ms. mcdougal did not want to publish that story, right? that is correct. bove, she wanted to promote her name and brand, correct? yes. she, karen mcdougal was illegitimate celebrity at that time, right? pecker, let me say this. did she meet the celebrity category at that time? no. there were reportedly aud

>> reporter: pecker also testifying today about a payment his company did make to former "playboy" model karen mcdougal to keep her alleged affair

telling the jury that at trump's direction, "the enquirer's" parent company bought the story of former "playboy" model karen mcdougal, who claimed she had a year-long sexual relationship with trump. pecker saying it could be "very embarrassing" to trump's campaign. he described a meeting at trump tower shortly after the election. trump saying, "i want to thank you for handling the mcdougal situation." then asking, "how's our girl?" pecker replying, "she's quiet. things are going fine." months later, trump invited pecker to the white house and asked again, "how's karen doing?" pecker recalled responding, "she's doing well. she's quiet." and he described a phone call where top white house officials hope hicks and sarah huckabee sanders encouraged him to keep paying mcdougal. >> mr. trump, do you still like pecker? >> reporter: and then there was stormy daniels, the porn star at the heart of this case. trump charged with falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment so voters wouldn't learn of their alleged affair. in the final weeks of the campaign, pecker said he told trump's fixer

another from the former playboy model karen mcdougal about an alearned affair that donald trump deniesaid a lot of ground wo for the jury. christian: let's bring in a republican conservative and talk show host at all american radio. thank you for being with us, jennifer. what do you make of what you heard today? >> i think this charade continues. as i was listening to your correspondent there, i can't help but think of how this remind me so much of what bill clinton did in entering into a private business agreement over a personal relationship allegedly with paula jones and bill clinton was different in donald trump in this case in that he was actually the sitting president of t united states. christian: but he wasn't running for election was he? >> well, he was trying to survive empeachment in the house of representatives. remember, they were hot on his heels back then to talk about his issue and the monica lewinsky issue and so many other issues and this was certainly one of those situations where bill clinton was trying to avoid bad media coverage and in that case, the way that it d

. >> reporter: pecker also testified about an agreement with former "playboy" model karen mcdougal, who says she had a ten month affair with trump, which he denies. pecker acknowledged to be 23, which then owned the "enquirer," paid $150,000 for her story jusn and never published it. >> donald trump had not been running for president, do you believe this deal would have been made with ami, knowing what you know now? >> probably not, no. >> reporter: in his testimony, pecker said the payment orchestrator of michael cohen was dumb because they didn't want the story to embarrass mr. trump or hurt the campaign. pecker said he asked to asked cohen who would foot the bill. he responded the boss, meaning trump, will take care of it. meanwhile, trump's legal challenges expanded overnight.

expected to deliver testimony, right out of the gate this morning about efforts to bury stories about playboy playmate.& is good, ultimately get to the xu of what happened. stormy daniels, i'm john berman with kate bolduan this morning. sara sidner is out. we have a live look at the us supreme court not yet. we will have a live look at the us supreme court at some point, you can trust me on that. we are standing by for oral arguments at the court about the issue of whether donald trump is immune from the actions he took around january 6, of course, he is trying to get the election subversion case, the federal election subversion case dropped completely over that issue of presidential immunity. and let's talk about what's going to be happening, what is happening in new york, donald trump is not what, let's talk with us down. >> trump's not in washington even though he says he wants to be, he's in new york because he is forced to be too de, has trial picks back up soon with testimony from man who bought and buried unflattering stories about him before the 2016 election, david pecker, we've been

she also had contact information for karen mcdougal, the former "playboy" model who had an affair with trump. she typed in two addresses, a cell phone number and e-mail address. trump denies that affair, too, but former "national enquirer" public er publisher, david pecker, has testified that at trump's direction, his tabloid bought mcdougal's story but never ran it to protect trump's campaign. and after the election, pecker told the jury trump thanked him. on cross examination, trump's lawyer, susan necheles, suggested stormy daniels visited trump tower because she was being considered for a role on the apprentice. graff said there was office chatter about that, adding "i vaguely recall hearing trump say that daniels may be one of the interesting people who could be on the show." but no ambiguity on one point, when trump's lawyer asked graff if she wanted to be there in court, her one word answer, "no." and as she left the stand, donald trump rose up out of his chair to greet her, whispering some words and extending his hand. >> reporter: the first week of testimony ended with a bante

the former publisher of "the national enquirer," david pecker, describing payments to made to playboy model karen mcdougal, who clayed to have a year-long relationship with trump. aaron katersky at the courthouse. >>> the stunning decision involving disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein. new york's appellate court overturning his rape conviction. the case that launched the me too movement, now likely headed for a retrial. >>> disturbing images of the police crackdown on campus protests across the u.s. officers tasing a protester at emory university. new pro-palestinian demonstrations breaking out at more schools. usc now canceling its main graduation ceremony, as protesters face a deadline to clear out at columbia. stephanie ramos standing by. >>> authorities investigating the death of a man following a confrontation with police. body camera video showing him struggling with officers after a crash. an officer seen with his knee on the man's back as he screams, "i can't breathe." >>> millions bracing for four days of severe storms from texas to iowa. tornado watches across several sta

model said she had an affair with donald trump and they allegedly met in 2006 at the playboy mansione year. donald trump denies they had a relationship and in 2016 when donald trump received the republican nomination story leaked. the owner of the national enquirer offered her $150,000. and michael cohen says that he orchestrated the deal for ami to buy the story but never publish it, to help trump in the 2016 election. allegations that trump denies. allen weisselberg was the chief financial officer for the trump organization and was mentioned several times in michael cohen's recording as being a part of the plot. >> i have spoken to allen weisselberg. >> in july 2021, allen weisselberg and the trump organization worse indicted for scheming for tax fraud and was sentenced to five months in prison and a plead -- agreed to plead guilty. >> they are looking to squeeze him again to get to donald trump. >> on march 2024 allen weisselberg pled guilty to perjury and lying under oath in the fraud case, a deal that sends him back to prison but does not require him to testify in the hush money

karen mcdougal is a playboy. i'm ready for him to say, okay, this is what night -- i need your help with. he said, they made a decision to pay her under $150,000 and the story will never see the light of day. i am sitting there going, and what world would we not run that story? what is actually going on? what am i a part of year? it was a moment where i was like, this will end my career. >> i want to show you keith davidson describing these interactions with david pecker . >> she believed they were not fulfilling the terms of the deal and she was upset and we scheduled a meeting with ami, who we met with -- they met with david pecker, who is an incredible man. there were even further promises that were made to her at that meeting, so the situation became worse, not better, and that was really a great source of frustration for everyone involved on our side. >> what we know now, what david pecker allegedly admitted to when prosecutors were talking with michael cohen to protect the president, there was a phrase he u

portraying trump as a playboy? nobody on the planet if had any idea, right?ng juan merchan gave the trump side a couple of minor victories, he barred prosecutors from playing the infamous access hollywood tape, but they can talk about it. and the judge won't allow accusations by women that he calls rumors while it focuses on stormy daniel, another woman who got catch and kill money through the national inquirer, karen mc mcdougal, will be able to testify. trump denies both encounters. with mainly sketches from the courthouse and reports by journalists, the former president has a shaped the narrative by frequently addressing the media mob. >> i should be right now in pennsylvania, in florida, in many other states, north carolina, georgia campaigning. this is all coming from the biden white house because they can't put two sentences together. howard: but the former president also discussed the indictment which says he reimbursed his former lawyer, michael cohen, for the $130,000 passed to stormy daniels, and that could be used against him. >> i was paying a law

another from the former playboy model karen mcdougall about an alleged affair that donald trump deniesk for the jury. nada tawfik, thank you for that. for more i'm joined byjennifer kerns, republican strategist and conservative talk show host at all american radio. what do you make of what you heard today? i what do you make of what you heard toda ? ~ , . ., ., today? i think this charade continues _ today? i think this charade continues with _ today? i think this charade continues with that - today? i think this charade continues with that as - today? i think this charade continues with that as i - today? i think this charade | continues with that as i was listening to your correspondent i can't help but think about this reminds me of what bill clinton did in entering into a private business agreement over a personal relationship, allegedly with paula jones. and bill clinton was different and donald trump in this case in that he would actually be the sitting president of the united states. but the sitting president of the united states. �* ., , �* ., states. but he wasn't running for

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he is the lawyer who represented both 1998 playboy playmate of the year, karen mcdougal, who alleged an affair with down from and horn actress and director stormy daniels, who alleged to a brief dalliance with trump. trump denies both. this afternoon, davidson and as testified about his negotiations with national enquirer editor-in-chief, dylan howard to sell the women's stories to that august to publication and how interest in buying stormy daniels accounts spiked after the access hollywood tape was released in early october 2016, before today's testimony gotten underway, judge juan merchan ruled that donald trump had violated the gag order against attacking members of the jury and witnesses with nine distinct posts on his truth social page, as well as his website. he find the judge fined the former president $9,000. trump has now or somebody acting on his behalf as now, remove those posts, but judge marchand is ruling also came with a warning that if trump continues to violate the gag order, the judge will quote impose an incarcerated lori punishment, aka, put trump in jail. i want

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issues he has had such as bringing in the publisher from the national enquirer to talk about the playboy other allegations against him. they are going to try their best to make him look bad. with the new york jury, that does not start off liking him to begin with. that could be enough to get him convicted. host: what about the defense and their strategies? will that be effective? >> it depends. again, it is a new york jury, which makes it difficult because in general, in new york, he is not well-liked. we don't know how the people on the jury feel about him. we know some of them are not fans, to put it mildly. so that is going to affect what happens. and you have michael cohen and he has a history of committing perjury on the stand. that will be problematic. and the defense will make a lot of hey out of that. host: how important are these opening arguments in shaping the jurors' view of the trial? >> in this case, probably not very. i think most people already have an opinion of donald trump. undoubtedly, these jurors have an opinion of him. and a lot of this was already out in the press

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karen mcdougal is an ex-playboy model and says she had an affair with donald trump. they allegedly met in 2006 at the playboy mansion and she says they dated for nearly a year, donald trump denies they had a relationship in 2016, when he received the republican nomination, her story leaked, ami, the owner of national enquirer offered her $150,000. >> they wanted the story. >> michael cohen says he orchestrated the deal to buy mcdougal story but never published it to help trump in the 2016 election. allegations trump denies, alan weisel berg was the organization's chief financial officer and was mentioned several time as being a part of the hush money plot. >> i've spoken to . >> allen weissellberg were indicted for scheming tax authorities at the federal state, and local level. he was sentenced to five months in prison and agreed to plead guilty and be a witness against the trump organization. >> they are looking to squeeze him to possibly get to donald trump. >> on march 4th, 2024 allen weisselberg pled guilty to perjury and lying under oath. a deal that sends him b

sleeping with a playboy bunny was his brand.n actress was part of his brand. it's part of what made people like him. so the idea that somebody who was mr. babes and bucks on the cover of the enquirer was so afraid that melania, his third wife who was pregnant with his fifth child from three baby mamas would be so terrified that poor melania would be shocked and appalled that he might have been sleeping with playboy bunnies and porn actresses, that he was so fearful that she would be hurt, it would hurt her feelings and that he had to do a hush money to save her, nobody is going to believe that. nobody with any sense is going to believe it. >> then she would no longer feel bad as soon as the election was over. >> she got over it. >> she's over it. >> none of it makes sense. the problem for trump, i have to say that lawrence actually kind of stole my thing i was going to say. you can tell that his attorney, mr. blanche, who i feel tremendous pity for at this point, was not doing the case he would do if he had the freedom to do thi

former playboy model who said she had a long-term relationship with president trump.ng about what the conversation was and the agreement was with her. she believed she was signing a deal to write articles and restart her career as a model in contrast to wanting the tell the story or this conversation about being caught and killed. david pecker continues on the stand and hear more about that conversation and that agreement with karen mcdougal. let's bring in former assistant u.s. attorney and fox news contributor andy mccarthy. great to have you with us, andy. >> good morning. >> shannon: let's talk about the relevance of this karen mcdougal testimony not from her but david pecker they viewed it as a business arrangement. she didn't want to story out there or hurt president trump. she didn't think she was killing a story. she felt that way later. she thought she was signing a deal to help her restart her career. in an exchange that story wasing going anywhere. what is the jury to do with this latest david pecker testimony? >> well, i think the problem is that from the

trump had an affair with a playboy model named karen mcdougal. when trump ran for president, mcdougal tried to sell that story to the press. so the national enquirer bought the story from mcdougal and then they killed it and this is no longer just the stuff of allegation. in 2018 the national enquirer's parent company entered into a nonprosecution agreement with prosecutors in new york. the tabloid admitted the whole scheme in exchange for immunity from prosecution. around the time that was happening the "wall street journal" had another scoop. david ceo of the national enquirer, also had immunity with prosecutors. he was also spilling the beans. so knowing that background when nbc got this potential witness list today for trump's hush money trial, these names jumped out at me, karen mcdougal and david and the man who is editor and chief of the national enquirer at the time of that catch and kill scheme, dylan howard. this is not the hush money the national enquirer paid karen mcdougal to kill her story. the hush money at the center of monday's t

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where he acknowledged that the purpose of catching and killing playboy model karen mcdougal's story about an affair with trump was to help trump during the 2016 election cycle. and pecker said he was aware that he was breaking campaign finance laws. pecker also testified that he discussed mcdougal with trump while he was in the white house. this comes less than a day after 18 people were indicted in arizona for their roles in an attempt to overturn trump's loss in the 2020 election there. including 11 fake electors who submitted a document to congress falsely declaring that trump won the state. along with several trump aides including rudy giuliani, mark meadows, and boris epshteyn. trump himself was not charged but was referred to as an unindicted coconspirator. as all of this was happening, in washington, d.c. today, the supreme court heard oral arguments on trump's claim that presidents have absolute immunity to essentially do whatever they want in office, crimes included, as long as it's, quote, an official act, which according to trump's lawyer includes potentially staging a military

president's longtime personal assistant testifying about adult film star stormy daniels and former "playboy" model karen mcdougal, and "national enquirer" publisher david pecker's comments about a thank you dinner at the white house. >> gio: meta takes on a.i. the new feature for facebook, instagram, and whatsapp challenging chatgpt. "gma" testing it out. its functions, results, and showing you just how to use it, and if you're old school, a workaround. >> whit: and cicada cacophony. a double brood of insects hatching by the billions. >> what you're hearing right now is a cicada bug invasion. >> whit: their siren song mistaken for emergency warnings with noise complaints growing. who's cashing in on the insect invasion? >> janai: good morning, america. cicada cacophony. >> whit: yes, yes. >> janai: that's a nice word to pull out of the thesaurus. >> gio: they are both gross fascinating all at the same time. >> whit: you got it. >> janai: kind of like -- kidding. not you. good saturday morning to you and to billions of cicadas. get used to that noise. that racket will be going on for months.

. >> reporter: pecker also testified about an agreement with former "playboy" model karen mcdougal who says she had a ten-month affair with trump which he denies. pecker acknowledged ami that owned the "enquirer" paid $150,000 for her story weeks before the election and never published it. >> if donald trump hadn't been running president do you believe the deal would have been made with ami, knowin what you know now? >> probably not. no. >> reporter: in his testimony, pecker said the payment orchestrated was done because they didn't the story to embarrass mr. trump or hurt the campaign. pecker said he asked cohen who would foot the bill. he responded, the boss, meaning trump, will take care of it. and pecker also revealed in an alleged 2018 conversation with him, hope hicks, and sarah huckabee sanders, then white house staffers, about extending mcdougal's contract, raising new questions about whether the trump administration might be further implicated in this case. robert costa, cbs news, new york. >>> turning to the severe weather now hammering the plains and the midwest. tens of mil

but he really he came into office he'd been a playboy in congress in the in the senate. he'd never pursued a serious bill. he wasn't respected at all. he was viewed as a playboy, handsome, charismatic, wealthy pulitzer prize winning historian. profiles in courage which, of course, was written by ted sorenson. and he got it because his father manipulated the pulitzer panel that that as it may he didn't know anything about economic policy or fiscal policy but he knew, my god, i'm president now better learn this stuff. so he surrounded himself. the top economic thinkers study hard, learned it and could come up with a good policy in a short period of time. same with foreign policy. he'd been i mean, he fought in world war famous 109. but he learned early on with the bay of pigs he didn't know much about foreign policy at all. originally he deferred to the military brass and that was disastrous in the bay of pigs. and one lesson learned was, no, you can't just accept all these things, guy. all these things he's got to say is true. you've got to be more discerning. and of cour

listen to other witnesses, in particular, we are talking about the appearance in manhattan court of playboyedly also paid for silence. understands how this or that works . well, to someone who does not closely follow american politics or not entirely electoral mechanisms, everything that is happening may even seem funny, they say, it’s all a show, so what’s wrong with the fact that trump paid some porn actress what -that money, even if there is a suspended sentence, most likely... it’s okay, because the american election machine really is, the model is designed in such a way that if you run for president, you can even snare in a prison cell, they will also give you guards from secret service, then you can calmly move to the white house and pardon yourself, but there is an interesting point here, firstly, this case is being considered not at the federal, at the district level, that is, even trump, if he himself becomes the president of the united states again, he won't be able to do this. part of his electorate, if you look at the situation now, you can see that trump is quite seriously supp

and the fact that pecker agreed to not publish a story about a playboy model's year-long alleged affair with a presidential candidate is only further proof this is not just about doing good business because pecker admitted such a story would have been, quote, "national enquirer" gold. the prosecution asked, at the time you entered into the agreement, you had zero intention of publication even if it would have helped the bottom line. you killed it because it would have hurt president trump. to which pecker answered, correct. and before the court wrapped for the week, the jury heard from two other witnesses, first was trump's longtime assistant and gate keeper, rhona graff, for a brief line of questioning authenticating both karen mcdougal and stormy daniels' contact information were in trump's computer. during cross-examination, she did admit to hearing conversations about daniels potentially being thought of as a contestant for celebrity apprentice. the other witness is much more obscure. one of michael cohen's former bankers, gary pharaoh, who helped set up a home equity line of credit

karen mcdougal is an ex playboy model and says she had an affair with donald trump.egedly met in 2006 at the playboy mansion, and she says they dated for nearly a year. donald trump denies they had a relationship. in 2016, when donald trump received the republican nomination, mcdougal's story leaked. ami, the owner of the "national enquirer" offered her $150,000. >> they wanted to squash the story. >> michael cohen says he orchestrated the deal for ami to buy mcdougal's story but never publish it, to help trump in the 2016 election. allegations trump denies. allen weisselberg was the trump organization's chief financial officer. he was mentioned several times as being part of the hush money plot. >> i've spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up. >> in july of 2021, allen weisselberg and the trump corporation were indicted for scheming to defraud tax authorities at the federal, state and local levels. he was sentenced to five months in prison and agreed to plead guilty and be a witness against the trump organization. >> they're looking to squeez

this is michael cohen talking about buying the rights to karen mcdougal, the former playboy bunny's storytake a listen. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all that info regarding our friend david. i spoke to allen about it. when it comes time for the financing -- >> what financing? >> we'll have to pay. >> cash? >> no, no, no. >> jill, they're going to try to impeach michael cohen, but cohen i'm sure has more of that. he's on the phone with him saying i need to do the thing i'm accused of doing. >> not only that. one, he's pled guilty. two, they have done a very skillful opening statement. and by calling david pecker as the first witness, they are building the structure that will then lead to the supporting beams and the detailed interior. they have corroboration, much corroboration for what michael cohen will eventually be called to tell. they also have two narrators. david pecker is a narrator for this case. and he's laying out the scheme, the multiple times that they killed any bad evidence against donald trump, and that they promoted bad evidence against his opponents.