catherine heenan joins us with the latest. >> stormy daniels, whose real name is stephanie clifford, now suing michael cohen for defamation, and that she has amended an earlier lawsuit. cohen said that he paid daniels $130,000 of his own money as part of a nondisclosure agreement. fallout does continue over last night's "60 minutes" interview, including daniels' claim that a mystery man once threatened her unless she left trump alone, and that came up at today's white house briefing. >> the president doesn't believe that any of the claims that ms. daniels made last night in the interview are accurate. >> he doesn't believe she was threatened? >> no, he does not. >> what's his basis for that? >> he just doesn't believe that -- there's nothing to corroborate her claim. the president strongly, clearly, and has consistently denied these underlying claims. the only person who has been inconsistent is the one making the claims. >> president trump's attorney has long claimed that trump denies the affair ever happened, knew nothing about any nondisclosure deal. daniels said that shed one encounter of consensual sex with the future pre