would be david pecker. >> david pecker, barry ravine or dylan howard. >> so david pecker, barry levinesubpoenas are on the way. and then ocasio-cortez asked the first question in what is sure to be an investigation of insurance fraud by donald trump. >> to your knowledge, did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company? >> yes. >> who else knows that the president did this? >> allen weisselberg, alan lieberman and matthew california mary. >> do you think we need his tax returns in order to compare them? >> yes, and you would find it at the trump org. >> so allen weisselberg, better get ready for questions on insurance fraud and many other aspects of the trump business. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez has been widely praised for all of that, but most observers have missed that the congresswoman who republicans like to call a socialist exposed donald trump's personal brand of socialism. the socialism that donald trump really loves. the socialism that puts taxpayer money directly into donald trump's pocket. >> the trump golf organization currently has a golf

. >> the relationship between ami ceo and enquirer publisher david pecker and trump goes back decadeswhich raises the question, did the white house influence the attack on bezos. >> david pecker was a friend of trump because he caught and killed stories. he kept stories that reflected negatively on trump out of the public view. >> bezos says ami wanted him to publicly state that the article about his personal life was not politically motivated. his blog suggests that it was. >> it stemmed from his belief that bezos has been wealding the washington post that he bought in 2013 as a political weapon against him. >> the washington post, which i call a lobbying pool for amazon. >> the president has called the media the enemy of the people and it's not. but it's not the friend of any politician. if the media is doing it's job, it's asking tough questions. >> he believes media exists to serve the interest of its owners. he doesn't believe in a well funded prepress so after a particularly damaging article published about him he took to twitter and called out jeff bezos by name. >> bezos basic

these catch and kill scenarios existed between david pecker and mr.rump long before i started working for him in 2007. jesse: trump had been doing this for over a decade. therefore the stormy payment was not a campaign expenditure. it was a personal expenditure not a crime. trump had been doing it for years and would have done it regardless of the campaign. cohen says he has no evidence of trump using the n word. >> i talked to the president over 300 times. i have not heard one time a racist comment out of his mouth in private. so how do you reconcile it. do you have proof of those conversations? do you have tape-recordings of those conversations? >> no, sir. jesse: cohen continued to knock down an anti-trump conspiracy theory. >> do you have any evidence of the president arranging procedures pore women. >> you know of any ties to alleged mobsters president trump may have. jesse: he never paid for an abortion or had a love child or had mob ties. thanks, michael. it's pretty clear this is a revenge plot. see the guy behind cohen? lanny davis. the clint

>> david pecker, barry levine or dylan howard. >> who else knows that the president did this? weisselberg, ron lieberman, and matthew calamari. >> stephen: "sir, i'm running out of time, so if you could please implicate as many new people as possible and please save the silliest name for the very end. something borderline anti-italian, like betty spaghetti or luigi casseroli, or matthew calamari." ( laughter ) on the other side of the aisle, republicans didn't even bother asking cohen a single substantive question. instead, they just called him a liar. >> the first announced witness for the 116th congress is a guy going to prison in two months for lying to congress. >> i don't know a juror in america that would believe anything mr. cohen says given his past actions and lies. >> that's why it's important for you to look up here, and look at the old adage our moms taught us. liar, liar, pants on fire. >> stephen: you learned "liar, liar, pants on fire" from your mom? ( laughter ) "honey, if you're ever in an argument with somebody, remember to take the high road and call them a

and president trump and david pecker and donald trump jr. we know a.m.i. and david pecker entered into immunity agreement. that leaves president trump and donald trump jr. as potential targets of the investigation. the fact that the judge continues to keep that part redacted which requires a showing suggests to me there are individuals urn investigation that could include those two are yet to be charged. >> barb, we tend to forget not repeat often enough, southern district of new york during cohen's plea in court did they say he admitted to crimes that were done at the direction of individual one later identified as our president? >> yes, even in the document itself, it was a direction of and in coordination with individual one. people have said it is a kin to saying he's a coconspirator there then we run up to the whole idea if a sitting president could be charged. it could relate to president trump himself and other people who's involved in the scheme. robert mueller continues to look at that piece of the investigation. >> clint, i am with barbara. when

these catch and kill scenarios existed between david pecker and mr. trump long before i started work for him in 2007. >> to your knowledge, did the president provide inflated assets to an insurance company? >> yes. >> the spokesman for chairman schiff despite this professed outrage by republicans, it's appropriate to conduct proffer sessions afternoon allow witnesses to review their testimony before the committee interviews them. such sessions are a routine part of every serious investigation around the country, including congressional investigations. separately, a virginia judge has sentenced former campaign chairman paul manafort in this case to 47 months for bank and tax fraud. the judge emphasized the crimes were unrelated to russian collusion allegations and the sentence was less than most observers had expected. >> yeah. he was exposed to 24 years. much, much less. catherine herridge, thank you. president trump is on the ground in alabama for a first hand look at what has happened following that tornado which killed 23 people on sunday. the pres

sxi david pecker have entered into non-prosecution agreements or immunity agreements. that leaves president trump and donald trump jr. as potential targets of that investigation. maybe other people we don't know about yet. but the fact the judge made that finding and continued to keep that part redacted, which requires a showing before they're going do that, suggests to me that there are individuals under investigation that could include those two that are yet to be charged. >> and barb, we tend to forget at least on our part, we tend to not repeat often enough, southern district of new york during cohen's plead in court, didn't they say that he admitted to crimes that were done at the direction of individual 1, later identified as our president? >> yes. it says even in the document itself that it was at the direction of and in coordination with individual 1. people say that is akin to saying he's an unindicted co-conspirator there. then we run up against this whole idea of whether a sitting president can be charged. so it could relate to president trump himself. it co

is i think one of the co-executive chairman at wme and ari emmanuel is involved he is close to david pecker. back in the fall american media was trying to -- they didn't refinance that until january 3rd, and a few days later is when this came out >> they had the captain kill problem. that goes to michael koen and all that other stuff too i mean, there's all these people that have all these axes to grind, and you don't know which axes are grinding at any given time you know, bezos got mad and said i'm not going to be blackmailed. if you hadn't taken pictures of yourself and sent them to meet e people, which most people don't do, i don't think, anyway. maybe millenials where, i'm not sure in my day and age, that's not something you do >> they didn't have cell phones in your day. >> bezos also -- >> you didn't have the option. >> i missed. it was a table -- >> no. >> where is my selfie stick? >> where is mine when i need one where. >> my arms aren't long enough. >> there's so many different nuances and angles >> if you are an amazon shareholder, what is going through your mind? why are you hav

pecker has not been charged. >> with david pecker cooperating not only is it possible this will leadtable impeachable offenses, but also it can blow open the core of what donald trump's political standing has been in the party which is a lot of people have been willing to look past a lot of these sins because they didn't know the whole of the sins. >> as 2018 wound down the donald j. trump foundation was dissolved among allegations by the new york attorney the chair had been used to serve mr. trump's business and political interests. that news just days out of the southern district of new york. >> federal prosecutors now investigating whether the inaugural committee misspent a portion of the $107 million it raised from donations. investigators trying to determine if the committee essentially sold access to the incoming trump administration. >> the mid-term elections changed the equation in 2019 with a democratic majority in the house of representatives, eager to investigate. >> there's one thing that i'm positive of. whenever bob mueller gets done with his investigation, whatever he

and president trump and david pecker and donald trump jr. we know a.m.i. and david pecker entered into immunity agreement. that leaves president trump and donald trump jr. as potential targets of the investigation. the fact that the judge continues to keep that part redacted which requires a showing suggests to me there are individuals urn investigation that could include those two are yet to be charged. >> barb, we tend to forget not repeat often enough, southern district of new york during cohen's plea in court did they say he admitted to crimes that were done at the direction of individual one later identified as our president? >> yes, even in the document itself, it was a direction of and in coordination with individual one. people have said it is a kin to saying he's a coconspirator there then we run up to the whole idea if a sitting president could be charged. it could relate to president trump himself and other people who's involved in the scheme. robert mueller continues to look at that piece of the investigation. >> clint, i am with barbara. when

david pecker, friends with donald trump.as targeting jeff bezos because he owned "the washington post" with all of its coverage that donald trump doesn't like and apparently that ami wanted to get out from under that accusation. on top of it, bezos in that editorial that he writes at medium, he accuses the "national enquirer" of, well, the "national enquirer" perhaps in cahoots with a foreign government of illegally tapping phones. and this is clearly -- this reporting out of "the wall street journal" suggests that that was not the case, but there are lots of lingering questions, including the fact that michael sanchez says he never obtained what we've been euphemistically describing as the below-the-belt selfie himself. if he wasn't the one who got it, who did? how did they get it? some of those questions still out there to be answered. >> stephanie gosk, interesting story you're covering today. >> for sure. that was a very diplomatic comment. >> that's going to do it for us on this edition of driandrea mitchell reports. re

his sons, jared kushner, along with david pecker and the nra and the list goes weon and on. the list goes well beyond the russia committee. chairman nadler is looking for answers, answers about potential obstruction of justice and collusion, emoluments. so what's the president's reaction? >> mr. president, are you going to cooperate with mr. nadler? >> i cooperate all the time with everybody. and you know the beautiful thing? no collusion, it's all a hoax. >> okay, here's where we are tonight. mueller is expected to wrap up his investigation any day. we could be hours away from that. but mueller may only be the beginning of threats to trump's presidency. that's because nadler's investigation is one of at least six committees investigating the president. his response. >> unfortunately, you put the wrong people in a couple of positions and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there. and all of a sudden, they're trying to take you out with [ bleep ]. >> chairman nadler will respond to that in just a moment. i want to begin, though, with abby phillips, "outfront"

organization cfo alan weisselberg, donald trump jr., and chairman of the "national enquirer's" publisher, david pecker. cohen also delivered documents like financial statements and a canceled check that could prove the president was aware of hush-money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. kim whalee is a former whitewater investigator -- >> they don't deny things, the facts speak for themselves based on the transactions and the documents themselves.eporubcans referred cohen to the justice department, alleging that he made false statements during his testimony. but he'll be back next two week answer more questions. and lawmakers say they will also call alan weisselberg to testify. paula reid, cbs news, the white house. >>> a $1 million reward is being offered for information to track down the son of deceased terror leader osama bin laden. the state department says hamza bin laden is emerging as a leader in al qaeda. in audio and video messages he called on followers to launch attacks against the u.s. investigators believe it's in part to avenge his father's death by u.s. military forces in 2011.

but you also have a.m.i., the publisher of the national queenier and its chairman and c.e.o., david pecker. that's a case where the president has been directly implicated as individual one. it should concern the president. i think that his toolbox that he's used quite effectively to not wo w southernl counsel may district. >> brennan: what does a bombshell look like if that is a benchmark for impeachment? >> for... if you look at the standard that nancy pelosi has said, anything would have to be overwhelming and bipartisan, and anything that could get overwhelming and bipartisan support, if you think about how pollerrized the congress and the country, is would have to be something that correctly implicates the president. that's such a high bar. i do think politically speaking when you look at the democrats, how much political weight they have put into the mueller report over the past 22 months, every question about impeachment, oversight of this administration, see what mueller says. what if mueller says that the president didn't commit any crimes? then i do think that takes a lot of the a

according to "the journal," david pecker, the publisher of "the enquirer," was initially uneasy about proceeding with such an explosive story, anxious the powerful bezos would sue. but ultimately, the paper reports, he approved the deal. and shortly thereafter, bezos, who is reportedly worth $137 billion, accused a.m.i., the publisher of "the national enquirer," of blackmail and extortion, claiming a.m.i. threatened to publish the embarrassing photos unless he stopped his investigation into just how the tabloid obtained the text messages. in response, michael sanchez, a hollywood talent agent, says that he will not dignify the claims, adding only that "the journal's" reporting is based on old rumors. david? >> linsey davis tonight. linsey, thank you. >>> we move on now to the white house. president trump's new war of words, and one of his most trusted counselors, kellyanne conway, has now been caught in the middle of this very public feud. the president today blasting conway's husband, george conway, calling him a, quote, total loser. it came after george conway very publicly question

and chairman of the "national enquirer's" publisher david pecker.en also delivered documents like financial statements and a canceled check that could prove the president was aware of hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. kim whalee is a former whitewater investigator. >> documents don't lie. they don't misremember. they don't deny things. the facts speak for themselves based on the transactions and the documents themselves. >> reporter: today, republicans referred cohen to the justice department, accusing him of making false statements during his testimony. but next week, he'll be back on capitol hill for more questioning. jeff. >> glor: all right, paula, thanks. israel's attorney general said today he intends to indict israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for corruption. this comes 40 days before netanyahu's up for re-election. seth doane has more on this. >> reporter: prime minister benjamin netanyahu fired back tonight, saying there was nothing to the charges, framing it as a political witch hunt. "this house of cards will

and chairman of the "national enquirer's" publisher david pecker.en also delivered documents like financial statements and a canceled check that could prove the president was aware of hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. kim whalee is a former whitewater investigator. >> documents don't lie. they don't misremember. they don't deny things. the facts speak for themselves based on the transactions and the documents themselves. >> reporter: today, republicans referred cohen to the justice department, accusing him of making false statements during his testimony. but next week, he'll be back on capitol hill for more questioning. >>> residents are still waiting to get back into their homes along the russian river in california. a flood cutoff entire communities. >> reporter: this is what local residents woke up to just after sunrise, one of the only roads out of here still completely submerged. by midday, the river had receded more than three feet, just enough to let a few vehicles in to tiny forestville after 36 hours of being cut off. >

president's son but also his son-in-law jared kushner, jeff sessions, a former attorney general, david pecker who is the head of the parent company of the "national enquirer" who was involved in those so-called catch and kill schemes to silence stories about these alleged affairs before the election of the president's extramarital affairs. former aides including hope hicks and don mcgahn, and people close to the company including his long-time cfo allen weisselberg and rhona graff who is a long-time gatekeeper of the trump organization. the fbi, the trump-ordered foundation, the charity asking for this information, brianna, within the next two weeks. i am told they are ready to move forward with hearings, potentially public hearings, in a matter of weeks with some of these individuals. they're waiting to see what kind of cooperation they receive first to determine whether they should subpoena for records and documents and whether to compel any of these witnesses to come forward. but suffice it to say a very long and breathtaking investigation in scope, and expect this to take place for a matt

. >> these catch and kill scenarios existed between david pecker and mr trump. >> is the president provide? >> yes. >> shannon: one person said this is appropriate. such sessions are a routine part of every serious investigation around the country. four senate democrats call on the nation's intelligence chief and the inspector general to investigate the white house security clearance process. they questioned whether the trumped trump administration is complying with security clearance policies. -- the senators want the findings between 60 days. >> shannon: thank you very much. white house communications chief bill shine resigned from his post today to take a new job on the president's reelection campaign. he joined the white house in june of last year. the trump 2020 campaign announced it was beefing up the communications team. new video of the last isis strong hold in syria. hundreds of people are fleeing a town in eastern syria. some isis militants still cling on to a small part of the town. u.s. forces have the enclave surrounded. it's international women's day. the u.s. women's nationa

the owner of that publication david pecker and even president trump's alleged valuation of his own assetsn official documents. michael cohen's attorney said not so. he insisted yesterday the meetings between house intel staff and cohen focused very narrowly on the line by line text of testimony he had submitted to the house intelligence committee in 2017. david back to you. david: jillian thank you very much. well from pardoning pressure to allegations of private coming, could all of this signal more legal trouble for michael cohen? here to discuss it is former whitewater independent council a memoire of the clinton investigation judge ken starr joins us now so judge first of all what do you think of the congressional witness who keeps lying apparently in front of congress? >> a very bad practice. people go to jail for that sort of thing. david: but i mean what kind of a witness as a prosecutor, if you bring up a witness who continues to lie, doesn't that mean that part of your evidentiary case has fallen apart? >> it certainly affects credibility. credibility is all-important in life but

david pecker. dillon howard. barry levine of ami as well.lberg. >> a lot of names there. congressman adam schiff told reporter yesterday the house intel committee plans to question president trump's long time business associate felix sadder later this moan on efforts to build a trump tower in moscow. house oversight committee wants to depose the president's long time tax lawyer as well as former deputy white house counsel. >>> house democrats are not through with michael cohen yet. the former lawyer to president trump spent thursday behind closed doors answering questions from the house intelligence committee ending a marathon three days of testimony on capitol hill. chairman adam schiff says cohen will be returning next week on march 6th for additional testimony. >> president trump was disputing part of cohen's testimony that he was involved in the decision to pay stormy daniels $130,000 to silence her allegations of an affair in the days after that "access hollywood" tape. >> what i did each and every time is go straight into mr. trump's o

the ceo of the company is david pecker, a long-time ally of president trump. america media has been in the spotlight since it admitted to making a hush payment on behalf of the president. lauren: hollywood hit by another sex scandal. warner brothers chair and ceo stepping down after sexual misconduct allegations. warner media launched an investigation following a report that detailed text messages between him and a british actress. the messages suggested that the relationship was based on promises she would appear in movies. cheryl: the securities and exchange commission rejecting rn musk's claim that they are trying to silence him. they say he should be held in contempt for vi violating an or. there were tweets from musk last year about being able to take the company public when the funding was not actually secured. as tesla is trying to cut costs, an internal e-mail reportedly shows that the company is asking employees to volunteer to help deliver more cars by the end of the first quarter, 15 days from now. lauren: i remember seeing the video of the cars in

the names, ivanka trump, donald trump jr., eric trump, alan wes elberg, corely lewandowski and david pecker. at the same time, the house ways and means committee is preparing a request for years of the president's tax returns and interceding to give jared kushner a top secret security clearance, house investigators demand the white house to turn over documents related to the clearances of top officials by tomorrow. well, to break this down, i want to bring in my panel for this hour, jake sherman, reporter for the associated press, wanda evans and brendan buck and former spokesman for house speaker john boehner, michael steel. welcome to the show. it's great to have you guys here. brendan, welcome to the dark side. i'm going to start with you, actually, because one of the things we saw on the oversight committee with michael cohen was a lack of defense of the president's actions. and rather a series of attacks on michael cohen's credibility. which fair enough. but is what the president has done here defensible? house republicans' actions in the hearing seem to suggest they don't think it is.

including the head of the national enquirer's parent company, david pecker, so silence at least one story alleging an affair with the president in the run up to the 2016 elections. so-called catch and kill scheme that was conducted by the national enquirer. all this is going to play out in a matter of weeks and months. the committee has given these individuals two weeks to respond asking a wide range of matters. they want answers to there could be subpoena fights and public hearings. the committee says that is something they are open to doing going forward, having public hearings oz a push foraward on this. this is just one of several committees investigating all aspects of this president, but today, jerry nadler offering up a very far reaching investigation. >> also reporting about a letter sent by some other democrats. what more do we know about that. >> three democratic chairman, adam schiff, eliot engel and elijah cummings who chairs the house oversight committee, democrats, are demanding information from the white house and state department about communications the president had with

what's the difference between this and the bezos thing where david pecker went to bezos and said if youay something really nice about us, us meaning the "national enquirer" because we have been doing all the reporting on your affair with your girlfriend, and we are going to release pictures of your private parts, essentially, what it was. what's the difference between that and he hasn't been charged. liz: the only difference is photos, money. i say they are both extortion. >> i have heard lawyers, just so you know, that say both -- we'll see what they say about avenatti, but both are contracts. liz: if, comma, then equals extortion. >> no, legally binding contracts. enter into a deal, you benefit, i benefit, no one loses. i'm telling you. i have heard lawyers argue that. i'm not saying it's true. listen, i don't extort anybody. liz: yeah. you extort me. the dow is up 14. we are coming right back with the amazon of the financial world. what is that? we will tell you. us as people. they see us as profits. we're paying the highest prescription drug prices in the world so they can make bill

on trying to get information about these hush money payments that were going on including from david pecker who was the parent, the head of the parent company of national inquirer. it was engaged in the so called catch to kill scheme. it was involving the president and his alleged affair with karen mcdougal. we'll see how much they discuss of that here. they had their hands full. the questions still bound to consume what democrats want to look for going ahead. we'll see how much cooperation they get getting any new documents they have been asking for in particular for some of those involved in these hush money payments. the eldest son, his name was signed on one of those check. >> i'll have you standby. we are waiting to see the witness in this particular case michael cohen immerge from the closed door hearing. joining us is thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> if i interrupt i'm sure you'll understand. let's talk about michael cohen. he claims the president made it clear he was expected to lie under oath to congress about that moscow trump tower deal and his legal team reviewed and edit

one person on the list is david pecker who is the head of the parent company for the national enquirert to know about the so-called catch and kill scheme in which they attempted to silence the story before the elections. they are demanding the documents within two weeks. they want to get this information. afterwards, we'll see if they move forward with subpoenas. if they don't get requests for information, they ask the white house for further details, as well. i talked to some of the staff members this morning who said they have not gotten any indications that they should not go forward with this probe from the mueller team as well as the u.s. attorney from the southern district of new york. they had talked to them and they said they can go forward with the current line of inquiries. there has been some coordination there. this is paving the ground for a very long series of hearings and investigations that this committee plans to launch in the months and weeks ahead. they want to know a lot of questions. we'll see what answers they get. one big question, too, is whether or not the pres

>> it is for david pecker. he has an agreement with the prosecutors. had been investigated with the campaign finance issues -- >> he had to keep his nails clean. this is long before that, we're told. so there's proof of this -- >> but these agreements hang over your head like a guillotine. you go to the prosecutor, i have done nothing wrong in what you're investigating me for. i'm not engaged in any criminalality. that's what is in your agreement. what the prosecutors hold over his head have said that's fine and good. we'll take your word. if we find out that if you engaged in criminalality, all bets are off. >> neil: do we know how he get this information? jeff bezos' investigators pick it up or who? >> it's been reported that bezos was tipped off. we started hearing it was the brother early on. now it's -- >> neil: hell hath no fury like a billionaire. a lot more to develop. forget the head of brazil. president trump just walked away with new reason to worry about who we just might have walked away from. oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type

they want to look into that aspect as well, including a letter they sent to david pecker who had the extent to cover up their stories in the run-up to the 2016 campaign. they want to keep this going for weeks and months. expect potentially public hearings. i talked to a committee aide this morning, john, who said that we're talking about weeks, not months, in terms of having hearings potentially in public. they want to be, quote, as tran transparent as possible. and they've made these document requests and have been green lighted to move forward. essentially, john, this is continuing for some time in this investigation involving this committee. this will touch on almost every aspect and controversy that has emerged over the last two years, john. >> we know from the last two years what the president thinks when you start asking about his businesses and the like, including his two children. here to share their insight, julyie heir hirsch-feld davis. this is anybody who has had anything to do with the president with just about anything. the democrats have this power. they say the presid

we don't know for sure there's quite a bit of suspicion that the guy who runs "the enquirer," david peckering after bezos to please his long-time buddy and business associate, donald trump. last night trump's second journalest friend had a blockbuster report of his own. hannity watch, an investigation into the 2020 candidates. >>> all right. time for hannity watch. our investigation into the 2020 candidates this weekend. senator bernie sanders kicked off his 2020 campaign in brooklyn, wasted little time before revealing more hypocrisy. democratic socialist, open borders advocate held a rally and was happy to greet his supporters from behind the barrier. why is the fence up, bernie? oh, a barrier is acceptable if they protect you personally? they're only wrong if they're used to protect our border and the american people, just like how many celebrities in hollywood and politicians have armed security guards? and bernie flies in private jets. >> that's right, bernie. this has been a hannity watch investigation and all kidding aside, there are serious questions that need to be asked here, lik

according to the "journal" david pecker, that's the ceo of the tabloid publisher, american media, hadto say about the massive payout to the tune of $200,000. let's bring in deirdre bolton, who has been following this racy story pretty closely. >> very closely. so the brother is the source. what we don't know yet, lauren, is whether or not he essentially stole those photos and texts from his sister's phone, whether he had access and permission to it naturally. i spoke with a few lawyers, i'm going to round up their comments in just a minute. but bezos, just to remind everybody, has said that ami, "national enquirer's" owner has threatened to publish these explicit photos of him unless he did two things, stop investigating how the "enquirer" obtained his private exchanges, then they wanted him to make a public statement, according to bezos, that declared that the "enquirer's" coverage of him was not politically motivated. as we remember, bezos posted a blog about his marriage ending, his relationship with lauren sanchez, and he put a damper on the magazine's scoop. so mr. sanchez, he to

the trump cfo alan weiselberg, david pecker, rmi. there aren't people left in this conspiracy whose name doesn't end with trump. >> that is one of the things we can sort of imagine potentially might be one of the things that takes a little bit longer to work through at the end of this big investigation is as you are weighing charges against the president's own family, that's kind of the type of thing that you might expect prosecutors to spend a couple extra weeks working on, which might explain how we have seen this delay unfold is there which is a pretty incredible thing to think about what the reaction would be from the white house, right, even if he, himself, is not, as you point out, justice department protocol and other members of the family. i mean, gloria, it also comes as have you this broadening set of investigations, which could lead to other big paths and things going on in the congress. >> right. >> the house judiciary committee asked for a heck of a lot of information, and they're getting it, specifically from two people

transaction to get all the stuff from the parent company of the national inquiry just in case david pecker took another job or left. >> or got hit by a bus. >> god forbid but if something happened to him. did you understand it to be the same? this wasn't the first time they had ever done it. they knew how to dot it. >> oh, they know how to do it. there's a long history of -- its well-known that there's a long history of donald trump and people around him entering into nondisclosure agreements with agrieved parties. >> another key element is why it happened when it happened. >> it was on you and your clients. now was the time to strike because he was in a campaign and he had to cover up it personally and didn't want his wife to know. what was behind the timing from your perspective? >> what you're really talking about is a john edwards defense and why that fails is the affair happened in 2006. we have to look at the time line. >> which one? >> both. >> let's talk about stormy daniels. it's been publicly reported that the affair happened in 2006. in 2011 was my first interaction and it was t

we see david pecker, american media. these are the "national enquirer," there is scrutiny. his gate keeper at trump tower for a long time, we know she's also spoken to the house intelligence committee already. but these are getting closer and closer into trump's own -- the business dealings and that is going to provoke a reaction down the road. >> the judiciary committee are asking for a lot of documents. jerry nadler saying he might ask for more. what's the danger here of the committee looking like it's redoing the special counsel's work? is that dangerous? and possibly partisan looking? >> i think what's important for people to understand is the role that congress plays versus what mueller does. mueller is investigating violations of existing laws. congress has to look at whether there are laws that should exist but don't currently exist that would protect us from things that are just corrupt and wrong. and i think they have to look at all of the things that they are looking at. i think it's very fair to look at his business, his transition team, his campaign, his foundat

trump has to be all over -- >> what about david pecker and american media? >> they could be involved as well. they have settled their case. they have gotten a non-prosecution agreement. they are not criminally exposed anymore. >> it's very clear that this blacked out part is naming people that were involved in this scheme, is also indicating parts of the investigation that are just not publically known yet that the department of justice does not want out there. when you look at everything else they have included -- what you see about pen register and phone -- this is like a drug case. you see this when the fbi, dea are trying to track drug dealers, where they're going, who they are talking to, not necessarily listening in. they want to do the gps. were they here? who were they talking to? that's how this reads. you don't normally see this detail out there. that's the way they went about this investigation. very detailed. >> if you are someone like roger stone and others who are being investigated, you learn the extent of the details that the prosecutors, the

allen weisselberg didn't have to because he had immunity and david pecker did not have to because i guesshad limited protection here. so that leaves the only other participant being the president. is is it possible s sdchlt ny h -- sdny has a sealed in-dilt, are they waiting to get approval the attorney general? that is a missing piece here. if you're going to indict cohen, how do you not indict the other party involved. >> one of the big questions is can a sitting president be indicted. and i think i'm in the same camp with professior tribe in believing that sitting president can be indicted. there is no constitutional prohibition, there prohibition. there is a policy memo saying we don't think it is a good idea. but i'm positive iltedtted a hypothetical. if a corrupt president were to bribe 34 senators such that even if he was impeached by the house he could never be convicted and removed by the senate because they couldn't reach the rec we si requisite two-thirds, and then the memo saying you can't indict a sitting president says tough luck america, nothing you can do about it. i think

the second hand man is a man called dylan howard david pecker has an established relationship with the saudis going back to twenty seventeen i believe and it kind of escalated twenty eighteen so there is that that that relationship is well established and there is also evidence. you know pointing to an exchange you know there's there it was it was a financially beneficial arrangement with state court and the investigator the chief and best against it has passed on the findings to the u.s. federal officials i'm hopeful that they will investigate this. what absolutely i mean that was the end game i would save when it comes to gavin de becker and his team of course i i would like to mention that i was one source i wasn't the only source he spoke to a lot of people and of course he had his own experts and he has his own access to different different sources of course. so really it's this is what they're hoping they're hoping to make this a legal problem in the end for both my of course that is the immediate problem here but also this is absolutely a p.r. problem also for the saudis west of

are on the list, david pecker, who runs the "national enquirer's" parent company, the karen mcdougalnization

are on the list, david pecker, who runs the "national enquirer's" parent company, the karen mcdougal payoff guy, trump organization cfo, allen weisselberg, coo, matthew calamari, corey lewandowski, and others. the trump organization itself, the president's discredited charity. they're all getting letters from the committee requesting documents. so are campaign officials, michael flynn, members of the inaugural committee, jared kushner, hope hicks. there are russian billionaires on the list, june assange, people involved in the trump tower meeting, the judiciary committee, they want information from all of these people and entities. it is, by any measure, a daunting list. and as you can see, the names go on. together, they know more things about more specific aspects of the president and his dealings, some going back decades. so, if there's anything fishy with any of it, they would probably be in a position to know. yet, today, when asked whether he'd cooperate with the committee, the president preferred to focus on one aspect of the investigation. >> i cooperate all the time with eve

di-this entire relationship with the media in new york has been colored by his relationship with david pecker and his ability to buy stories, always. always been buying stories through "the national enquirer" and that ability, if you do that -- that's of what your business model its with journalism, he looks at me and look ted "new york times" and he thinks we are all -- we all have a price, and somebody has paid us, and we have agreed to that to take the money. or they know something about you. it's blackmail or it's cash. >> we don't have too much time so make these lightning round answers. start here. >> given everything that's going on and has been going on, could each of you tell me why donald trump will not be impeached by the house. >> they don't have the votes in senate, never going to happen. >> by the house. >> doesn't matter. why take the vote if you can't close the deal? >> what he said. >> yep. >> what he said. >> we all agree on that. >> zero percent chance. >> beginning of this talk, just to reveal a conflict of, and i'm a report sore i'm interested in mat people think of the p

many hypothesizing that it was the "national enquirer" owned by david pecker, good friend of donald trumpborated, but certainly had a lot of people talking at the time. >> so where does this go next, steph? what's the next shoe to drop here? >> you have to wonder really how these texts and photos were obtained? and if they were obtained in a way that was potentially illegal. and there is not a good explanation of how that happened. although the "national enquirer" has come out and said that this was the result of what they called solid reporting. so you've got some conflicting story lines here and you have to wonder if it's going to shake out. also worth pointing out that ami had an agreement with federal prosecutors in the southern district of new york to cooperate with them on that payout during the election for donald trump. >> yep. >> to silence a former playboy model who said they'd an affair. so, wow, lots of stuff tangled up in this. >> stephanie gosk, thank you for untangling it for us. >>> coming up, new details in the case of that politically connected billionaire and the cases

he worked for the trump org -- or david pecker, the head of american need yeah the parent company ofuirer," he's not going to be able to cite executive privilege. >> no, not at all. for two reasons. one, allen weisselberg worked for president trump when he was donald trump in a business capacity. >> right. >> number two, even if he had worked for him in some political capacity, it's not anybody who's politically worked with the president. it's the senior advisers as jeffrey said in the white house. >> correct. >> not anybody the administration. >> everybody, stick around. there's a lot more we need to discuss right after this. 2 what?! i'm here to steal your car because, well, that's my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what?? what?! what?! [crash] what?! haha, it happens. and if you've got cut-rate car insurance, paying for this could feel like getting robbed twice. so get allstate... and be better protected from mayhem... like me. ♪ you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase sensimist relieves all your worst symptoms, i

david pecker, howard, barry lavine of ami as well. allen weissleberg. of the trump organization as well. >> who else knows that trump did this? >> allen weissleberg, matthew lieberman and calamari. >> howard, how does the house deal with that? >> well, ari, in the campaign i spent some time on the 26th floor of trump tower in donald trump's office talking to donald and other people. and to reminded me as nothing so much as a somewhat more upscale backroom at the badda bing. it was donald trump sitting behind the desk and various people milling around. nobody sitting down because donald trump had too many trophies and paintings and other things on all the chairs and seats. there was nowhere to sit down. but everybody milling around the office and only one person who mattered and was making everybody else argue with each other. that was donald trump. the larger point is here, and the big picture point is that the american people and the investigators are going to have to decide whether donald trump, his family and his inner circle, all of whom were descri

dagen: there's jeff bezos and david pecker, right there in the middle, that's the brother of jeff bezosirlfriend, mistress, laura sÁnchez, brother sÁnchez, the wall street journal leaves with this, amazon jeff bezos inquired about how they acquired, they even hinted that it was saudi arabia or the white house that might have been involved, in fact, it was michael sÁnchez the brother of lauren sÁnchez, mr. bezos' lover who sold the billionaire's secret for $200,000 to the inquirer's publisher, according to real news breaking by the wall street journal. michael sÁnchez is a talent agent and managed tv pundits out west for many years and had long relationship with the national inquirer and top editor. mr. sÁnchez started conversations last fall with the national inquirer about his sister's relationship with jeff bezos. inquirer by then had already started investigating whether jeff bezos and sÁnchez were having an affair, they worked together on some projects, affairs, relationship started last year, that's the story. i encourage people to read it because it goes into the back and forth ab

don trump jr., eric trump, david pecker, dylan howard, barry levine of ami as well.rden. >> the panel is still here. joyce, it's like a gallery of names. what was that list? what do they do with that list? i'm guessing robert mueller's already got that list. >> that's a list investigators need to talk to, whether they're on the legal side of the house or congressional oversight side of the house, we will hear from all of these people before it's over. >> matt miller, you want to jump in and sort of lump any of those groups together? it seems like the last group, those are people involved in the illegal or partially charged conspiracy, the campaign finance violations charged by the southern district of new york. some of those names felt like they were perhaps at the intersection of donald trump and his business efforts and endeavors and lies about russia. but pretty big list of people who may be ensnared in one way or another in a conspiracy. >> it's a very big list of people and they all have one thing in common, none of them work for the government. jay sekulow is o

second michael cohen used the first and last name of allen weisselberg, when he's talking about david peckerme has come up about 200 more times even in the course of testimony linking him to the person who would have information about the inflation of assets among other things. it's very clear that not only will weisselberg have information about donald trump but also his father. he's been a long-running part of the trump organization. we already know there's been lots of investigations into all of these things. >> so dana, as harry mentioned, it was the freshman democratic senator alexandra ocasio-cortez who raised this issue of, and i want to ask you whether i'm using the right word here, but inflating assets, possible fraud. here's the exchange. >> to your knowledge, did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company? >> yes. >> who else knows that the president did this? >> allen weisselberg, ron lieberman, and matthew calamari. >> and where would the committee find more information on this? do you think we need to review his financial statements and his tax returns i