would own the rights to her story and then donald trump would reimburse the national enquirer for whatever that cost national inquiry. that was the plan. that with the scheme. that was the conspiracy. it didn't work out quite that way. when stormy daniels lawyer offered the national enquirer the rights to her story about one night she spent in a very brief sexual encounter with donald trump according to herstory. the boss of the national enquirer decided to just put michael cohen in direct contact with stormy daniels lawyer at the time so that donald trump, to michael cohen, could justify stormy daniels silence directly. that didn't mean that the boss of national escape to prosecutors attention. when they were prosecuting michael cohen for violating campaign finance laws and an attempt to affect the outcome of the election by making a 130,000 dollar hush money payment to stormy daniels three weeks before the 2016 presidential election. because silencing stormy daniels was beneficial to the trump campaign, to put it mildly. the $130,000 a violated campaign finance laws by excee

that didn't mean that the bossxd of the national enquirer escaped prosecutors's's attention.when they were prosecuting -- finance law, in an attempt to effect the outcome of the election by making a 130,000 dollar hush money payment to stormy daniels, three weeks before the 2016 presidential election. because silence of starlight stormy daniels was official -- put it mildly. the $130,000 violated campaign finance laws by exceeding the limit of campaign contributions and by not being recorded as a campaign contribution. the boss of the national enquirer, who was supposed to be the mastermind of the catching till scheme for donald trump, was a man named david pecker. here is how the new york daily great at the revelation in court, in the michael cohen case, that david pecker was a witness in the grand jury investigation. there it is. that was the front page of the daily news when they found out. david pecker was forced to go under oath. and, the stormy daniels investigation by federal prosecutors. tomorrow's daily news may have the headline of a similar spirit to convey the new

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. >> did you know that the tabloids in the national enquirer ran op-eds? i didn't.st of 2015, the national enquirer was the paper for candidate donald trump when he laid out for divisions of the white house. an op-ed rents between the story about a country singer, reba mcentire's divorce, and the column called hollywood hookups about which stars or smooching and in case you are wondering, nick jonas recovered quickly from his june split with olivia couple, and is now experiencing a new reality. dating kendall jenner. a lot of change since then. nick jonas is now married to sophie turner, oh no, priyanka chopra. that's true jonas. and donald trump won from a reality star facing op-eds in the national enquirer to becoming the actual president of the united states. we now know that trump's relationship with the national enquirer was more sinister than then just sort of ridiculous. that same month of the op-ed, august of 2015, trump had a meeting with the publisher of the inquirer, david pecker, which the new york times reports that pecker promised to publish positive s

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so, stormy daniels and this gets to a lot of your reporting, she had approached "the national enquireried to get them to buy it from her. is it clear why they passed? >> my reporting was on a string of interactions that trump and people around him including michael cohen had with ami, the parent company at the time of "the national enquirer" and proved out i believe pretty thoroughly that there was an ongoing arrangement to pay hush money to catch and kill, this is the journalistic term that was used in the tabloid world, unflattering stories about trump. >> so the catch and kill system which you brought up orchestrated or involving david pecker who was the former publisher of ami, how did it work? >> the concept is very basic. "the enquirer" forged an alliance with donald trump. david pecker and his consigliere dylan howard were both heavily involved in this arrangement by which they would go out and seek unflattering and usually tawdry stories about donald trump and they would pay money for the rights to those stories, which entailed essentially muzzling the people in possession of t

no one bite's not even the national enquirer. that summer. karen macdougal story is caught and killed. and remember, cnn obtained secret a secret audiotape at the time of trump and cohen discussing how all of it would play out. you hear them mentioned david as in david pecker of the national enquirer , who also testified this week before the grand jury. and alan that's alan weisberg, who was the cfo of the trump organization is right now still serving a jail sentence. i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david. i'm all over that, and i spoke to alan about it when it comes time for the financing, which will be awesome. financing. painting your song hold. no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. a few months after that conversation is one of bombshell dropped in the access hollywood published a tape of former president trump that's candidate trump at the time. the very next day on october, 8th is when daniel's seemed to sense there was opportunity to picture story once again after years of failing to sell

correct hope hicks correct david packer, the former head of the national enquirer. let me just say a big correct i think he was a very important witness. we will see, but i think the most important word that we heard michael cohen say, is documents. these prosecutors youtube will will that they are not depending on michael cohen for their evidence . alvin bragg. he knows what the stakes are with this case and everything we've heard about how tricky it may be. he doesn't want to fail. uh also lanny davis, michael cohen's lawyer, was on our air earlier today, and he said they sorry the documents speak for themselves. remember what we don't know, meaning what hasn't been made public yet? we've said over and over tonight. there are a lot of things we don't know, but i think the these references to documents are not an accident to this is corroboration because you obviously have michael cohen , who admitted himself today. well i might not be the most reliable witness, but i keep reminding people he did go to jail. so um, so when you talk about corroboration is jamie is t

correct hope hicks correct david packer, the former head of the national enquirer.let me just say a big correct i think he was a very important witness. we will see, but i think the most important word that we heard michael cohen say, is documents. these prosecutors youtube will will that they are not depending on michael cohen for their evidence . alvin bragg. he knows what the stakes are with this case and everything we've heard about how tricky it may be. he doesn't want to fail. uh also lanny davis, michael cohen's lawyer, was on our air earlier today, and he said they sorry the documents speak for themselves. remember what we don't know, meaning what hasn't been made public yet? we've said over and over tonight. there are a lot of things we don't know, but i think the these references to documents are not an accident to this is corroboration because you obviously have michael cohen , who admitted himself today. well i might not be the most reliable witness, but i keep reminding people he did go to jail. so um, so when you talk about corroboration is jamie is ta

e1 "national enquirer's" parent corporation.t criminal exposure and indeed testified and that testimony was used against michael cohen to put him in jail. so, you know, the justice department concluded as such based on this testimony that evidently was being heard again today, ande1 indeed the justice department went so farfá in 201 the federal justice department, to say that michael cohen wasn't but at the direction of individualxg@s!er one, which we know to be donald trump. so the federal government concluded that trumpe1 wasñr the who was behind>4)q criminal plot that michael cohen was involved in. yet they never indicted. why didn't the federal government indict? in 2018, the trump justice department, even though they thought there was a crime, was operating under the view that a sitting president couldn't be indicted. obviously, that doesn't bear now on the district attorney of new york city's investigation. >> right. and i think it's important you raise that and remind people. people get frustrated with parts of the system

today, hearing from the former publisher of the "national enquirer."n karl in new york tonight. >> as a former publisher of the "national enquirer" and a longtime friend of donald trump's, david is a key witness to the investigation into those hush money payments that trump made to stormy daniels shortly before the 2016 election. daniels had attempted to sell her story about having an affair with trump unit instead of buying it, becker instead directed her to michael cohen who arranged the payoff at the heart of this case. he may be able to shed light as to why trump wanted to buy her silent so close to the election. this was pecker second appearance in front of the grand jury. unclear when the grand jury will make his decision about whether or not to indict the former president. david. >> david: all right, giancarlo in new york tonight feared when when we come back, real concerns over the drinking water in philadelphia and the areas around the city. triggering this water safety scare peered president biden briefed today pure news coming in from city o

former publisher of the national enquirer.onded jonathan karl in new york tonight. >> jon: as a former publisher of the national enquirer and longtime friend of donald trump david packer is a key witness to the investigation into those hush money payments. that turn made to stormy daniels. she attempted to sell her story to inquirer instead of buying it and packer instead director instructed her to michael cohen. he may be able to shed light as to why trump wanted to buy her silence so close to the election. this was her second appearance for those before this grand jury and he testified back in january. it is unclear when the grand jury will make its decision about whether or not to indict the former president. david? >> david: jon karl in new york, thank you. when we come back here, it concerns at this hour over the drinking water in philadelphia in the areas around the city. triggering this water safety scare. we have news coming in from city officials there in a moment. check. psych! and i'm about to steal this game from y

under packers tenure at the national enquirer -- habit of purchasing and subsequently burying negativees about trump to help his campaign during the 2016 elections. back in 2021, the inquirer's parent company was fined nearly $200,000 by the federal election commission for squashing a story about a different reported trump affair, some with playboy model karen mcdougal. the enquirer said it worked in concert with the trump campaign when it paid macdougald to keep quiet about what she says was a months-long relationship. the enquirer also infamously spread negative stories about trump's opponents in an attempt to help then-candidate trump, like when the tabloid baselessly claimed that republican senator ted cruz's father was linked to the jfk's dyson nation. that one still makes me laugh. and to make it all worse, after all packard did for trump, according to michael cohen, the ex president's drift him. >> he was supposed to pay. he was supposed to pay $125,000 for the life story of karen mcdougal. so whatever the rules may be, he elected not to pay it. david pecker was very angry, beca

pecker's top editor at "the national enquirer" deliberating with cohen about making payments to stormy to keep her alleged encounter with trump out of the headlines. soon after, cohen paid daniels $130,000 in hush money, later reimbursed by trump. >> pecker has already testified. so that means his return trip is really just to underscore a point he has already made and unless there is another pecker in the wings, that means that what happens now is that the d.a. or the assistant d.a. asks for a vote on the indictment. >> reporter: security has been increased outside and inside manhattan criminal court following a death threat delivered to bragg last week and at least two bomb threats. >> when they go after me, they are going after you. >> trump continued his attacks on bragg and the investigation at a campaign rally in waco, texas, saturday. >> prosecutorial misconduct is their new tool and they're willing to use it at levels never seen before in our country. >> reporter: on sunday, over 150 former federal prosecutors signed a letter condemning trump's rhetoric, saying they denounce ef

this afternoon's star witness was the former publisher of the "national enquirer," david pecker. it's all related to the hush money payments made to former porn star stormy daniels. cbs's robert costa is outside the courthouse in new york city. >> reporter: sources close to the investigation tell cbs news that david pecker's appearance today is a sign district attorney alvin bragg might be finalizing a case against former president donald trump. in 2016, it was pecker who encouraged efforts by then-candidate trump and michael cohen to prevent damaging stories about trump from being published. pecker's top editor at the "national enquirer" deliberated with cohen about making payments to stormy daniels to keep her alleged encounter with trump out of the headlines. soon after, cohen paid daniels $130,000 in hush money, later reimbursed by trump. >> pecker has already testified, so that means that his return trip is really just to underscore a point he's already made. and unless there's another pecker in the wings, that means that what happens now is that the d.a. or the assistant d.

the journal was the first to report that the national enquirer paid a woman named karen mcdougal $150,000 in august of 2016, and what is known as a catch and kill. basically, the enquirer bought macdougalls story, about a romantic relationship with donald trump in 2006, and then the acquirer killed it. it never went to press. in any other news cycle, this story would've been a bombshell. in the last week, of a wild campaign, the mcdougal story got very little attention. first of all, the country was still reeling from the release of trump's access hollywood tape, which had happened a month earlier. just days before, fbi director james comey had announced the fbi was taking another look at hillary clinton's emails, and stories were already swirling about an fbi investigation that had been opened into donald trump and his campaign's ties to russia. so, a lot was going on. and the hush money payments, the catch and kill situation, involving karen mcdougal, that all got lost in the fog. lost but not forgotten. because that story, that campaign finance violation, would come back to haunt presi

we have a lot to get to this evening, including the role of the national enquirer in the hush money scheme that might end up making history. that tabloid, if you recall, in maybe you don't, also playing a role in another national scandal involving a major political figure and his affair, and hush money. we will have more on that, when we come back. e house whisperer! this house says use the realtor.com app to see three different estimates. also, don't take advice from people who don't know what they're talking about. realtor.com to each their home. ♪ ♪ get directv with a two year price guarantee. - double check that. ♪ eh, pretty good! (whistles) yeek. not cryin', are ya? let's tighten that. (fabric ripping) ooh. - wait, wh- wh- what was that? - huh? what, that? no, don't worry about that. here we go. - asking the right question can greatly impact your future. - are, are you qualified to do this? - what? - especially when it comes to your finances. - yeehaw! - do you have a question? - are you a certified financial planner™? - yes. i'm a cfp® professional. - cfp® professionals are committe

i don't know what they call it, the national enquirer.the national enquirer to enhance his own reputation he was using it to kill stories. they had arranged a publishing relationship with mcdougle to keep her quiet all of these individuals, i presume, have now testified at length to alvin bragg's prosecutors. and trump and his lawyers don't know what they have said and i think that's one of the reasons trump doesn't want to come in voluntarily to testify and they're doing everything they can to keep this out of court. >> absolutely. well, the plot thickens. michael cohen did go in -- he's going in i believe tomorrow for yet another turn before this grand jury so the plot continues to thicken. barbara mckwan and tim o'brien, thank you very much. >>> up next, a courtroom showdown is coming between ron desantis and the twice elected state attorney that he fired for overtly partisan political reasons. former florida state attorney andrew warren joins me next. stay with us oooohhh, it is cold outside time to protect your vehichle from winters

trump's longtime friend and then chairman of the national enquirer's parent company, david pecker, is believed to have orchestrated the payment and was one of the last witnesses to testify before the grand jury monday. but even trump's potential republican presidential rivals criticizing the indictment. governor ron desantis tweeting, it's american and trump's former vice president, mike pence, telling cnn. i think the unprecedented indictment. former president of the united states on a campaign finance issue. is an outrage. paula you're getting new reporting about when the manhattan district attorney actually wanted trump to turn himself in. what are we learning? so i'm just learning from one of the former president's attorneys that the manhattan district attorney wanted trump to turn himself in today, which would have been a really tight turnaround, but because, of course, all the security concerns in preparations that was not possible, so he is still expected to appear next tuesday , one of the biggest outstanding questions here that i don't think it's been answered is why now? thi

or as the "national enquirer" reported it, "bombshell: harry cheats on meghan with bat boy!" so why is pecker even involved? well, the guy is known for helping the former prez quash embarrassing gossip by paying for exclusive rights to someone's story with no intention of publishing it, a practice they call "catch and kill," of course, also the less popular cousins of snap, crackle, and pop. with the indictment walls closing in, last night, the ex-president sat down with his buddy, conservative pundit and the first thing fox news viewers see when they die, sean hannity. he's waiting. he's on the other side. hannity asked the former president about his truth social post from the weekend, where he put up this threatening photo of himself wielding a baseball bat next to a photo of manhattan d.a. alvin bragg's head. it seems ominous. but not if you ask the guy holding the bat. >> you have to understand that when the story was put up -- i put up a story, we didn't see pictures. and they put up a picture of me and you know where i was holding the baseball bat? it was at the white h

but it did hear from the former publisher of the national enquirer, a longtime confidant of donald trumpd pecker. nbc news points out this. packers testimony is likely to be key to the manhattan prosecutions argument that the hush money payments or meant to suppress negative information from the public before an election. back with us tonight my dear friend jonathan allen, senior national politics reporter for nbc and former new york prosecutor and civil rights attorney charles coleman. john, remind us who exactly david pecker is, how he fits in to the overall trump landscape. >> so the basic way to look at this is that david pecker was the publisher of the national enquirer and he ends up being a little bit of a go between, an intermediary between stormy daniels and -- as trump is seeking to kill this potential story about the alleged affair with stormy daniels. >> and that is what he did a number of times for trump and others, right? that is how he ran his tabloid. it is information brokering. >> absolutely, and it is leverage. you know, this is not how most journalistic outfits work,

they heard testimony for a second time from the former publisher of the national enquirer, david peckerd in january. pecker allegedly helped broker the payment between the adult film actress and trump's former lawyer, michael cohen and is likely key to the prosecutor's argument that the purpose of the payment was to suppress negative information ahead of the 2016 election. also over the weekend, d.a. alvin bragg pushed back again against the three house republican chairman who continued to claim that congress should be privy to his testimony and documents in the ongoing investigation. bragg tweeted, we evaluate cases in our jurisdiction based on the facts, the law, and the evidence. it is not appropriate for congress to interfere with pending local investigations. the unprecedented inquiry by federal elected officials into an ongoing matter serves only to hinder, disrupt, and undermine the legitimate work of our dedicated prosecutors, but hey, that might just be the point. joining me is maya wiley. myy, great to see you. let me ask you this question. at what point does this obstruction

the journal was the first to report that the national enquirer paid a woman named karen mcdougal $150,000 in august 2016 in what is known as a catch and kill. basically the enquirer bought mcdougal's story about her romantic relationship in 2006 and then the enquirer killed it. it never went to press. in any news cycle this story would have been a bombshell, but in the last week of a wild campaign the mcdougal story got very little attention. first of all, the country was still reeling from the release of the "access hollywood" tape. just days before director james comey was looking at hillary clinton e-mails and investigations were open into donald trump's ties to russia. so a lot was going on. the hush money payment, the catch and kill situation involving karen mcdougal, that all got lost in the fog, lost but not forgotten because that story, that campaign finance violation would come back to haunt president trump in 2018. and this time people paid attention. the date was january 12, 2018. it was almost exactly one year into donald trump's presidency. trump was already under federal inv

long time trump ally david pecker was running american media inc or am i, which published the national enquirer the enquirer forged an alliance with donald trump. they would go out and seek unflattering and usually tawdry stories about donald trump. and they would pay money for the rights to those stories, which entailed essentially muzzling the people in possession of those stories. am is pecker helped broker the $130,000 hush money payment to daniels. was it hush money to stay silent? yes in one of his editors contacted trump's longtime lawyer, michael cohen, who then reached out to daniels, and offered the $130,000 payment to make her story go away. when daniel's threatened to take her story elsewhere, court filings say pecker called cohen on an encrypted phone app and said the deal needed to be completed or it could look awfully bad for everyone. trump has denied the affair and any fault with the payment. still in the end, daniels took the deal. she signed the agreement 11 days before election day in 2016. playboy model karen mcdougal says she, too, was essentially muzzled by pecker and ami

pecker being the head of the national enquirer, his organization already admitted this scheme existed rolling stone reported in 2021, american media inc. which is mr. pecker's company, unlawfully aided trump in 2016. they found they had violated federal election laws by making a payment to playboy model karen mcdougal in order to purchase and bury a story about an alleged 2006 affair with trump pecker enters a nonprosecution agreement in which he admitted the payment had been made in order to help trump's campaign that's david pecker. he testified twice before this grand jury does that say to you that tacopina might be trying to make it seem innocuous when it's really part of that kind of scheme >> well, before getting, joy, to tacopina, i want to say my bottom line on this is we should be absolutely celebrating the fact that we have a functioning judicial system that treats all of its citizens equally, but i don't think we should be celebrating the fact we have a former president who has been indicted this is an incredibly important event for our country and an incredibly solemn one.

. >> that friend, david pecker is the ceo of the "national enquirer's" parent company, american media. >> "national enquirer" hit president trump's secrets in a safe. >> you agreed to provide information about michael cohen, the president and the criminal investigation into campaign finance violations. >> this is a big case. this is absolutely -- >> whether the twice impeached president likes it or not, the work of manhattan district attorney alvin bragg continues. >> that new witness making news. as you can see, so many different people, so many networks tracking whether the case heads towards an indictment of trump or something else. there's no sign the grand jury will hold a vote or inish its work this week. that's another indication d.a. bragg is in charge. trump tried to arrange a pr ploys, attacks and possibly illegal pressure tactics to somehow impact the probe. but the d.a. isn't buying it and doesn't seem to be changing anything on behalf ofí%!v this potential defendant the d.a. is following the money, and the question remains whether that path will lead to a chargeable crime

yesterday the former publisher of the "national enquirer" david pecker testified for a second time. in 2016 pecker played a key role in connects then trump lawyer michael cohen with an attorney for stormy daniels. cohen paid daniels $130,000 in had an affair with trump. trump has denied the affair and any wrongdoing. >>> well, senator rand paul says a member of his congressional staff was attacked in washington, dc, over the weekend. a suspect was arrested. a 42-year-old man was taken into custody and charged with assault with intent to kill in connection with saturday's stabbing. the victim was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. there's no word on a motive. >>> officials in philadelphia say the tap water is safe to drink at least through this afternoon. crews were on the scene of a chemical spill in the delaware river yesterday. a latex finishing solution spilled into the water. it's being linked to an equipment failure at a nearby plant. the philadelphia water department is testing the water around the clock. >> we have over 2,000 employees who every day focus to

in his role at the time as publisher of the "national enquirer" and a friend of then-candidate donaldhe original $130,000 payment. >> seth: that's right. the grand jury heard from a key player in trump's corrupt scheme to broker a secretive hush money payment to conceal an ellicit affair jsut weeks before a presidential election and then disguised those payments by lying about what they were for. it's a damning development in what is already a serious case that could very well result in a historic first-ever indictment of a former president. but my main takeaway is this, i can't believe this guy's last name is pecker. [ laughter ] it's a story about trump having sex with a porn star, and a key player's last name is pecker. [ laughter ] so, i guess in this way, the trump case, you know what, is cinematic. but it's like a bad '80s comedy like "bachelor party" or "porky's." [ laughter ] "hey, pecker, you want to help us out with a little problem?" [ laughter ] who else has the grand jury heard from? trump's bookkeeper, mike shlong? [ laughter ] so, the grand jury heard from another key w

he's the former ceo of american media publisher national enquirer. far right government has faced protests with hundreds of thousands of angry israelis in the streets trying to,s as they say, protect the country's democracy. joining me is raf sanchez. the goal was to paralyze the country, and it worked. there was concern about a pro-judicial move group clashing with the anti-judicial move group. what's happening in the streets? has the delay called things down? >> reporter: well, katie, we're in jerusalem where just across the street from the supreme court and exactly as you said, for the first time today n large numbers, we started to see right wing protesters turning out in support of benjamin netanyahu trying to give him the stiff political spine he needs to keep pushing this judicial overhaul. we heard from the prime minister earlier tonight, and he announced that he was delaying and that is basically a decision he reached in the face of this unprecedented wave of protests and the general strike here in israel. as you said, the airport shut down

he was the fixer, whereas david pecker was a friend of his and a separate entity in the national enquirerut it appears that the da's office is more focused on stormy daniels because a, it is easier to show that, we'll, first of all the main charge that they're looking at as we understand it, my colleagues have reported in the repayment of michael cohen, it which will make it a felony under new york law because this is not a federal case. it has to be backed up by some, meeting your falsifying the records in order to conceal another crime like an election law, or campaign finance violation. the pecker can mcdougal case doesn't involve any falsifying up business records. so that's just not the case of trying to make, but it's part of a larger story of donald trump trying to -- georgia's 2016 election campaign. let >> me ask you, because you are part of a wall street journal team that won a pulitzer. we mentioned earlier, and we know that the access hollywood it was out there. but with these details available before the 2016 election. and putting aside a potential indictment against trump in

jury investigating former president trump could recommend charges as soon as tomorrow after national enquirerublisher made his second appearance before that panel yesterday. bryan is live outside the manhattan criminal court for us. why would pecker's testimony be important? >> well, hey, sandra, look. david pecker is a long time friend of trump's and the former chief executive of the parent company of the national enquirer, and provided information to prosecutors that helped put michael cohen behind bars over the hush money payment made to adult film actress stormy daniels. and yesterday pecker went into the courthouse an hour and a half, his second time testifying before this grand jury, and in 2016, pecker alerted cohen that daniels was shopping around her story of an alleged affair with trump. cohen paid $130,000 of hush money. trump denies the money, but said he personally reimbursed cohen. and trump called alvin bragg's effort to indict him over the payment election interference. the former president tried to explain truth social posts. first the photo he posted and then took down, a ba

and publisher of the national enquirer on the hush money payments to stormy daniels is michael cohen is on standby to return to the witness stand. going to attorney is outfront and how tiktok is keeping much needed ammunition from ukraine. let's go, outfront. good evening. i'm erin burnett outfront. tonight we begin with breaking news chilling details emerging tonight about a possible motive after a mass shooting at a private christian elementary school, the nashville police chief, saying the killer who identified as transgender resented having gone to that school. there is some belief that there was some resentment for having to go to that school. don't have all the details to that just yet, and that's why this incident occurred. now the shooter, according to police is 28 year old audrey hale. in all , six people were killed, including the head of school, katherine kunz, also to other teachers, mike hill and cynthia peak, died today and 39 year old children alan dick house, william kenny and halle scruggs. names of nine year olds who woke up this morning and went to school for anoth

david pecker, the former head of the national enquirer was seen leaving the grand jury building. you see him there after about 90 minutes now back in 2018 peckers company admitted to participating in so called catch and kill schemes. basically they would find paid for and then never publish. as in kill on flattering stories about trump outfront tonight. ryan goodman, karin agness follow basil smikle and former republican congressman adam kinzinger. okay thanks to also ryan. here we are, uh and you've got pecker coming in for the second time inside the building for 90 minutes, which would mean some somewhat less than that in front of the grand jury. but, you know, not multiple hours like costello the other day. how important woodpecker b so i think pickar be very important. in a certain sense, he can corroborate a lot of what michael cohen said. the agreement that you referenced that was in the federal courts actually corroborates a lot of the understanding that michael cohen had with pecker and the national inquiry that this would be a scheme to suppress stories for the purpose o

he's the former publisher of the national enquirer. he faced the grand jury for a second time yesterday . we still do not know the timing of a decision on a potential trump. indictment i'm joined now by defense attorney and former federal prosecutor shan shan. good to have you on this morning. what do you think is going on here? bringing this witness back? he's of course central to this investigation, but also the timeline here. do you see prosecutors here trying to line everything up, or perhaps second guessing themselves. well, it's i don't think they're second guessing themselves on the course it's hard to figure that out without being in there, but timeline wise, it seems to line up with this defense witness costello that went in last week, and we know that they had michael cohen on call that day in case they wanted to put him in to rebut. the attack that costello was mounting on cohen's credibility . so timeline wise, it sounds like perhaps they wanted pecker to go in to rebut some of that, and we can assume that some of the point

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trump's longtime friend and then chairman of the national enquirer's parent company, david pecker, is believed to have orchestrated the payment and was one of the last witnesses to testify before the grand jury monday. but even trump's potential republican presidential rivals criticizing the indictment governor ron desantis tweeting, it's american and trump's former vice president mike pence, telling cnn. i think the unprecedented indictment. former president of the united states on a campaign finance issue. is an outrage, the district attorney and trump's legal team are now in the process of negotiating his self surrender, told by one of his attorneys that he will likely appear on tuesday and go through the normal process, and that includes everything from being photographed, fingerprinted and appearing before a judge. but even if this is the normal process, there is no playbook for something like this. very not normal and this will be the arraignment will be expedited. because of the circumstances here, according to my source that he probably won't see any time behind bars for this

david pecker, as you see here is the former publisher of the national enquirer. he appeared before the grand jury for a second time. as those jurors are set to meet again tomorrow. also today, a rare spectacle event in the stars. nasa says five planets will align starting tonight. no binoculars needed just look up. cnn this morning starts right now. we're gonna start this morning with the chilling new video that has been released from police overnight from inside the school, where yesterday three children and three staff members were murdered. we want to warn you that this is disturbing. it's hard to watch. it is surveillance video that shows the shooter who has now been identified as a 28, year old former student arriving at covenant school here, which is a small private christian school elementary school outside inside nashville. the shooter is heavily armed with a handgun and two assault style weapons. the shooter blasted through the entryway glass doors and then climbed through before roaming the hallways, eventually taking six innocent lives. the attack unfo

it was $150,000 payment that am i, the publisher of the national enquirer spent to silence mcdougallbefore her story could go public before the election. as you recall the former publisher of the national enquirer, david pecker testified before the grand jury again on monday. he is a key witness in this investigation because he has knowledge of both of those alleged hush money payment deals , and he has had communications with the former president. he's a long time. friend of donald trump's, and over the over decades, he has been involved in these so called catch and kill deals. so this is another detail that we're learning as this grand juries continuing to investigate former president donald trump's role in hush money payments, pam all right, kara scannell, thank you so much. well secret deal making between two supreme court justices steer the outcome of a pair of key gay rights disputes before the high court shortly after that landmark obergefell ruling, which declared a constitutional right to same sex marriage, cnn senior supreme court analyst joan biskupic is here to explain, a

investigating the hush moneyác former president trump zdndndn$eard from the former publisher of the "national enquirerary, çó helped arrange the deal between michael cohen, mr. trump's former lawyer, and an adult film star who said she had an affair with mr. trump. >>> turning now to theu chaos in israel, for months protesters have railed against a plan 5a■ to overhaul the country's judiciary. and tonight those protesters have won a key concession from prime minister benjamin netanyahu. raf sanchez is in jerusalem.'c■ >> reporter: tonight thousands of protesters surrounding israel's parliament in a sea of flags as a divided nation reaches what some fear may be 4■ a breaking point. the crowds demanding prime minister benjamin netanyahu ■>ek"tdnd weaken israel's supreme court. >> we will protest every day until we will end this crazy )jjyfá )jjyfá >> rep9iizeuju blocking tel aviv's main highway. police using horses and water cannons to clear the way. the country paralyzed by an unprecedented general strike. daycares, banks and restaurants closed. and israel's main airport shut down for e1 outbound fligh

mcdougall claims she had an affair with trump in 2006 and was paid off by trump's friends at the "national enquirer" in august of 2016 shortly before the election. the former president has denied both affairs and today, his defense attorney promised a vigorous fight. >> we'll proceed to see a judge at some point, plead not guilty, um, start talking about filing motions which we will do immediately, um, and very aggressively. >> reporter: trump has repeatedly attacked district attorney alvin bragg, even posting a picture of himself holding a photo of bragg. today, he lashed out at the judge who will preside over his case. security around the courthouse has now stepped up and police are bracing for protests on the day trump arrives. >> david: aaron live outside of the courthouse in lower manhattan tonight. aaron, the former president expected to arrive in new york as early as monday and then as you just reported on tuesday, he's expected to surrender to authorities. still so many unanswered questions here, what this could look like, of course and what the american people might witness for the first t

payment by former president trump heard testimony from david pecker, the former publisher of the national enquirer. despite continued anticipation, the grand jury ended their day without voting on any indictment. it's not clear when the group will return next to consider the hush money case. mr. trump denies any wrongdoing. meanwhile, former president trump appeared on fox news monday night. he continued to deny the alleged affair between him and stormy daniels at the center of the investigation. >>> let's get back to extreme weather in the west. gearing up for another round of storms. meteorologist angie lassman is tracking that for us. >> unfortunately, they don't need any additional rainfall or snowfall in parts of california and up the coast into washington and oregon, but think will get some into today and tomorrow. we have a system that's going to work onshore bringing plenty of rain and heavy snow to areas that are already saturated. we have it working through northern and central california and points north of that. the heavy wind and snow will be the most impactful things. as we get into

donald trump meant again today, this afternoon's star witness was a former publisher of the "national enquireravid packer.% it's all related to the hush money payments made to former porn star stormy daniels. cbs's robert costa is outside the courthouse in new york city. >> reporter:tioncb that david pac's appearance mes alvin braight be finalizing a case. in 2016, david packer encouragei about trump fromeiirer diberati7 about making payments to stormy daniels to keep her alleged encounter with trump out of the headlines. soon after, cohen paid daniels $130,000 in hush money, later reimbursed by trump. >> pecker has already testified. his return trip is just to underscore a point he has already made and unless there is a pecker in the wings, that means that what happens now is that the d.a. or assistant d.a. asks for a vote on the indictment. >> reporter: security has been increased inside and outside manhattan criminal court followed a death threat to bragg last week. >> when they go up to me, they are going after you. >> trump continued his attacks on bragg and the investigation on saturday.

long history with his friend david pecker, who was the head of the company that published the national enquire of trying to kill not favorable stories and publish favorable ones. now, of course, david packer was before the grand jury in new york on monday, is second time cooperating with investigators in this investigation, but at this point, we don't know if prosecutors questioned him trying to establish a pattern or exactly whether they asked about this particular hush money scheme as well reached down. the former president trump's attorneys, and they have declined to comment. paula stand by. i want to bring in also cnn defense attorney shan wu and cnn legal legal analyst jennifer rogers. i want them to join this conversation. jennifer let me start with you. what does it reveal to you that the manhattan district attorney's office now appears to be broadening its focus to include yet another hush money scheme? well, it could mean a couple of things wolf. it could mean that they think that they can charge this scheme the way that they may be looking to charge the stormy daniels scheme. i don't

i'm payment to stormy after she threatened on the eve of the election to tell the national enquirer would tryst with a trump in the beverly hills hotel with the payment to storm it was papered up as a settlement agreement as you would as you would in the midst of a lawsuit. actually stormy had no claims against the trust. we payment came from michael cohen. was indictment the prosecutor star witness. michael cohen borrowed on his home home equity loan to get the 130,000 dollars which he deposited in a phony bank account for a consultant a corporation that did not exist. in mid- the 130,000 dollars in bank accounts. there is michael cohen at 130,000 dollars. trump says we will papered up as a legal fee. one rendered no legal advice. there is a retainer agreement which was phony just phony monthly invoices. cohen can be repaid there is a falsification of business records. that is a crime in new york prevents a crime has been prosecuted many, many times if you are i did it will be prosecuted to print the question the only question is a i legal question should be a felony or misdemeanor? misd