pecker now bring a suit against ms.cdougal because it has come out in the new yorker., can anybody do anything about enforcing the rights of this contract between ms. mcdougal and the national enquirer. >> and richard a contract because of the financial exchange and what if there is not a written agreement of i won't disclose this story to anybody else or the exclusivity rights or how do you see it? >> right. >> and well, i disagree with avery, because it is not extraordinary, and it is kind of nauseate, but in any event, if there is a written agreement here, fredricka, and apparently an extensive written agreement, and she is bound to the terms and it is $150,000 and represented by kocounsel when s signed that agreement, and if she wasn't, maybe she has an argument, but if she was represented by counsel, and she got $150,000, and look, let's face it, cats don't chase dogs. we know what that $150 was. and so trump's buddy, you know, he gave it to her. and then hid the story, but, you know f if if you are looking ate right now, the "enquirer" now they have blackmail mat

it is quite clear that the pecker's in charge. but most interesting of all is the timing.ffair with mcdougal happened around the same time as trump's affair with stormy daniels. how dare you, sir! cheating on stormy daniels? do you not respect the sanctity of the billionaire-porn star relationship? you just go ahead and three-time the person you're two-timing with? for god's sake, sir. you watched "shark week" with her! did that mean nothing to you? we'll be right back with senator kirsten gillibrand. ♪ ♪ ( applause ) when you have a cold, pain from chest congestion can make this... ...feel like this. all-in-one cold symptom relief from tylenol®, the #1 doctor recommended pain relief brand. tylenol®. i look like most people. but on the inside, i feel chronic, widespread pain. fibromyalgia may be invisible to others, but my pain is real. fibromyalgia is thought to be caused by overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i'm glad my doctor prescribed lyrica. for some, lyrica delivers effective relief for moderate to even severe fibromyalgia pain. and improves

well, american media's chairman david pecker is a long-time personal friend of trump's. >> these guysmet many years ago and they have maintained a friendship for a long time and david pecker takes care of his friends. >> it's a back scratching relationship. >> i always said why didn't "the national enquirer" get the pulitzer prize for edwards and o.j. simpson and all these things. >> during the presidential campaign he mentioned it while implying that the father of senator ted cruz was involved in the killing of kennedy. >> there was a picture of him and crazy lee harvey oswald have been breakfast. >> that was debunked. joe scarborough and mika brer zinsky said there was a hit piece that was planned. >> they said if you call up the president and apologize he will pick up the phone. >> he called those allegations fake news. more fake news is also how the white house describes the alleged affair between trump and karen mcdougal. just like it is denied the alleged affair between trump and stormy daniels. his personal attorney cohen admits he paid money for daniels' silence ahead of the e

. >> this would appear what happens in the relationship between david pecker and donald trump., he is loyal to trump, you know, that he does work on his behalf in some ways. now, you know, they talk about a negative side to that. this company knows where the bodies are buried, so even working in a friendly way to bury a story for someone, they have the dirt and can release it. >> i see what you are saying. we followed up with a former american media executive, and spokesman for the company. here's what he told me about catch and kill. >> as far as these stories being killed, or bought and killed, it is something that has been going on for a long time at not only these magazines but other publications. it takes the story out of the market so it won't see light of day. >> in a that case, and that catch and kill case, how common is this? how many other stories has the enquirer caught and killed to protect president trump? >> broadly speaking the former ami employee we talked to said this is a fairly are yroutine practice. one of them was arnold schwarzenegger, and tiger woods. >>

david pecker takes care of his friends. >> reporter: it's a back scratching relationship.ith trump, sometimes praising "the enquirer." >> i always said why didn't they get the pulitzer prize. >> on the cover of "the national inquirer," there's a picture of him and crazy, lee harvey oswald having breakfast. >> reporter: that was debunked. joe scarborough and mika brzezinski claimed the white house planned a hit piece on them through the national inquirer. >> they said, if you call the president up, and apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike the story. >> reporter: on twitter, trump called those allegations fake news. more fake news is also how the white house described the alleged affair between trump and karen mcdougal, like they denied the affair between trump and porn star stormi daniels. trump admitted he paid $130,000 for daniel's silence ahead of the 2016 election. which tabloid has been all over that story? not the inquirer, but the rival, "in touch" magazine. cnn, new york. >>> we are off to the olympics next. cnn's christine

david pecker tries to take care of his friends through these catch and kill technique.a story. >> so let's connect the dots. we know twice in the days and weeks leading up to the election. you have stormy daniels, it at least looks questionable. and now this in the days leading up to the election there. this really seems to be a pattern that we're talking about. >> it does. and ronan farrow is reporting is it shows a system. right before the election day, there was a story in the "wall street journal" about this particular story involving this particular playboy model and how the story was buried. so there are some details but farrow has a lot more that he has shared. it does look like a pattern and it begs the question how many other stories about president trump have been caught and killed? how many other stories has the national choirer success, inquirer bur snid when you go to the supermarket, it is one thing to be out there promoting his agenda. it is another to cover tim stories that would hurt him. >> we noticed the response saying, this is an old story. it is mo

david pecker is a long time personal friend of trumps. >> these guys met many years ago and david peckere of his friends. >> reporter: it is a back scratching relationship. with trump sometimes praising the enquirer. >> i have always said why didn't the national enquirer get the pulitzer prize. >> reporter: he mentioned it that the father of senator ted cruz father was involved. >> crazy lee harvey oswald having breakfast. >> reporter: that was debunked. >> they said if you call the president up, and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike the story. >> reporter: on twitter, trump called those allegations fake news. more fake news is how the white house describes the alleged affair between trump and mcdougal. trump's personal attorney admits he paid 130,000 for daniel's silence ahead of the 2016 election. and which tabloid has been all over that story? its rival "in touch" magazine. >> the evidence is pretty overwhelming. and my question for them is how many other stories have they done this with. how many have they caught and killed to protect

however, david pecker, the head of ami on the record said he is a loyal friend of donald trump's.we talked to six former employees who said that this is a publication that was doing work on behalf of the president in their view. >> no direct indication he had anything to do with burying it? >> that's not what we're report ing. >> in terms of the affair when was it and what did karen say it happened? >> karen mcdougal met donald trump at a party at the playboy mansion in 2006. and this initiated an affair of many months. this was bear in mind several months after the birth of barron trump. >> it was a taping of the episode of the apprentice and you can look up the footage where she appears in some of these group shots. she talks about him treating her well and her being impressed and finding him polite and smart. this was a consensual affair. however, it illustrates commonalities between allegations of consensual affairs and other women claimed non-consensual advances. >> very similar to the allegations by stormy daniels. >> many commonalities. >> many. >> offering money for sex sh

turned to david at america media and he steers this guy in his photos to national inquirer, to david pecker media. >> am i wrong, you can't answer definitively, like how often did this happen? >> that is a really great yes and important to note while in these several cases we're talking about people who claim to have consensual sexual encounters with trump. trump is also somebody that has during the course of the campaign basically been subject to multiple allegations of sexual misconduct about unwanted sexual advances and groping and assaultive behavior. what is significant about this story is if there was a machinery in process to try to cover up things that could be damaging for trump, you know, when it came to even allegedly consensual affairs, were there things done to silence other damaging stories that were much more significant and much more grave? >> we should note that the women that have come forward, we know those women but it's possible there are others that have not or we have not heard from them. >> that's right. one of the things that has come out in the process of this me,

however, david pecker, the head of ami on the record said he is a loyal friend of donald trump's. talked to six former employees who said that this is a publication that was doing work on behalf of the president in their view. >> no direct indication he had anything to do with burying it. >> that's not what we're report going. >> in terms of the affair when was it and what did karen say happened. >> karen mcdougal met donald trump at a party at the playboy mansion in 2006. and this initiated an affair of many months. this was bear in mind several months after the birth of barron trump. >> it was a taping of the episode of the apprentice and she appears in fwraup shots. she talks about him treating her well and her being impress the and finding him polite and smart. this was a consensual affair. it illustrates commonalities between ails of consensual affairs and other women claimed non-consensual advances. >> very similar to the allegations by stormy danielss. >> many commonalities. >> many. >> offering money for sex shows up in claims by women. offering purchases of real estate sh

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according to "the new yorker," "the national enquirer," run by david pecker, who calls president trump a personal friend, paid karen mcdougal $150,000 for the exclusive rights to her story, but they never printed it. journalist ronan farrow, who broke the story, says the enquirer's motive was clear. >> people in tabloid business call this catch and kill. and it's, you know, acquiring a story to bury it. >> reporter: farrow's report claims the affair happened around the same time mr. trump allegedly became involved with adult film actress stormy daniels. this week the president's longtime personal attorney acknowledged he paid daniels $130,000 just before the election. michael cohen says neither the president's business nor his campaign was part of the transaction. but he has not said whether the president knew about the payment. daniels, staying mum. >> do you have a non-disclosure agreement? >> do i? >> reporter: and tonight in florida, the president and first lady walked off air force one together. >> and cecilia vega with us live tonight from the white house, and cecilia, strong rea

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pecker is a friend of president trump. >>> one former top ami editor said we had stories and we boughtg full well they were never going to run. he added, we never printed a word about trump without his approval. a spokesperson for ami said mcdougall's story was never published because they didn't find it credible. a spokesman said the pretty denies the story about mcdougall calling it fake news. >> ahead, the cdc hwó] jlé ?7ñ! >>> a grandmother is being credited with stopping a school shooting in the pacific northwest. >>> ahead, the chilling discovery that led police to her grandson and prevented a planned massacre. >> you're watching "cbs this morning." ways to lose stubborn belly fat. the roasted core wrap. 3, 2, 1... not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting? now that's cool! coolsculpting safely freezes and removes fat cells with little or no downtime. and no surgery. results and patient experience may vary. some rare side effects include temporary numbness discomfort and swelling. ask your doctor if coolsculpting is right for you and visit coolsculpting.com today...

but, in fact, pecker has the power.power to run the stories and knows where the bodies are buried. have we not paid enough attention to the fact that more than one entity has the potential to blackmail this president. >> exactly. you just hit the nail on the head, joy. i think a lot of people are getting distracted by the stormy daniels story, the porn star, the glam. the core of this story shows us that donald trump is blackmailable. if he is willing to pay $130,000 to make something go away, as the president, what else is he susceptible to? you are able to blackmail the american president. this is also just another example of how trump disrespects women. the porn star whose silence he is trying to buy and his wife. >> not to mention that. richard painter, as a former white house ethics lawyer, "usa today" and stephen spaulding and paul s. ryan of common cause on why the payment to stormy daniels matters. it is reasonable to question whether the money was tended to squash a pivotal story in a tight election. once the p

according to the new yorker, the national enquirer run by david pecker who calls president trump a personal friend, paid mcdougal $150,000 for the exclusive rights to her story. but they never printed it. journalist ronan farrow who broke the story says the enchoir err motive it was clear. >> people in tabloid business call it catch and kill, acquiring a story to bury it. >> farrow's report claims the affair happened around the a same time mr. trump allegedly became involved with adult film actress stormy daniels. this week's the president's long-term personal attorney acknowledged he paid daniels $130,000 just before the election. michael cohen says neither the president's business more his campaign was part of the transaction. but he has not said whether the president knew about that payment. daniels staying mum. >> do you have a non-disclosure agreement. >> do i shoo. >> tonight in florida the president and first lady walked off air force one together. cecilia vega, the white house. >>> state lawmaker suspended due a sexual misconduct allegation is suing the legislature for reinstatement

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according not new yorker, the national enquirer run b davidy pecker, who calls trump a personal friendive rights to her story. but they nifr presented it. the journalist who broke the story says their motive was clear. >> people in the tabloid business call this catch and skill. it's acquiring a story the bury it. >> reporter: the report claims the affair happened around the same time mr. trump allegedly became involved with adult film actress stormy daniels. this week the president's long time personal attorney acknowledges he paid her $130,000 just before the election. he says the president's business nor his campaign was part of the transaction. he has not said whether the president knew about that payment. daniels staying mum. >> do you have a non-disclosure agreement? >> do i? >> in florida, the president and first lady walked off air force one together. cecilia vega, abc news, the te lawmaker suspended due to a sexual misconduct allegation is suing the legislature for reinstatement arguing he is being treated differently than a white colleague. the suit, by state senator tony men

pecker. but not just any foreign country, but our primary enemy, russia.issue for me is, what do they have on donald trump? donald trump obviously knows they have something, that's why he's doing all of the things that he is not doing. and consequently we have to rely on robert mueller for the time being to get to the truth and find out just how badly compromised the president of the united states is. >> look, in ronan farrow's report, he also speaks with publisher of "the national inquirer." they say, quote, suggestions that ami engages in any activity like that is laughable. does it concern you that the president could be vulnerable to some sort of influence because of this? >> i understand the point, but in my opinion i do not think so. i think these are two separate issues. you've got, you know, the possibility of him, you know, having extramarital affairs, all of that avenue, and then you've got the avenue of what's going on with russia meddling in the election. i know peter thinks there's a tie-in. what is it? everything has been exposed. you've got

according to the new yorker, the national enquirer, run by david pecker, who calls president trump aal friend paid mcdougal $150,000 for the exclusive rights to her story. but they never printed it. the journalist who broke the story says the enquirer's motive was clear. >> people in tabloid business call this catch and kichl it's acquiring a story to bury it. >> reporter: the report claims the affair happened around the same time mr. trump allegedly became involved with adult film actress stormy daniels. this week, the president's long time personal attorney acknowledged he paid daniels $130,000 before the election. he has not said whether the president knew about that payment. daniels staying mum. >> do you have a non-disclosure agreement? >> do i? >> in florida, the president and first lady walked off air force one together. cecilia vega, abc news. >>> a state lawmaker who was suspended due to a sexual misconduct allegation is suing arguing he is being treated differently than a white colleague. he claims while he was suspended for the allegations against him, bob hurtsberg who is

according to the new yorker, the national enquirer, run by david pecker, who calls president trump aiend, paid mcdougal $150,000 for the exclusive rights to her story. but they never printed it. journalist ronan farrow, who broke the story, says the enquirer's motive was clear. >> people in tabloid business call this catch and kill. it's acquiring a story to bury it. >> reporter: his report claims the affair happened around the same time mr. trump allegedly became involved with adult film actress stormy daniels. this week the president's longtime personal attorney general act snojed he paid mcdaniels $130,000 just before michael cohen says neither the president's business nor his campaign was part of the transaction and has not said whether the president knew about that payment. daniels staying mum. >> do you have a non-disclosure agreement. >> do i? >> in florida, the president and first lady walked off air force one togd. cecilia vega, abc news, the who is. >>> a state lawmaker who was suspended due to a sexual misconduct allegation is suing the state legislature for reinstatement

professional events and professional contacts like this company ami, and which the company head david pecker head. that was not a matter hidden in any way. >> according to our reporting mcdougal was always asked to pay her own way, and then she said she'd be reimbursed by donald trump so that there wasn't a corporate assistant helping with travel and the like. >> this story suggests a concerted effort and indeed a well oiled machine designed to conseal this, both during and after the fact. and that does include she claims she was secretly reimbursed for travel throughout the affair. she talks about clandestine meetings in hotels, a meeting that closely resembles what stormy daniels talked about in her story, and also these legal pacts. in mcdougal's case this was with this media company. >> and explain how may met in the first place. >> mcdougal met at the playboy mansion in 2006. there was a taping of the apprentice, and you can watch a taping in which mcdougal appears in various scenes. and she talks about being impressed by his intelligence, being charmed by him. mostly she describes a re

. >> yes, david pecker is the chairman, it's the parent company of the national enquirer, also owns magazinese "us weekly" and a bunch of others. he's known to this for other friends as well. harvey weinstein is someone who the enquirer would keep stories hidden about. in the case of president trump, we've heard trump praising the inquirer in the past promoting the tabloid. there was an allegation that the inquirer was used in order to blackmail him. there's been some ugly stories about the inquirer and trump in the past. this new development is interesting because it adds new allegations about this extramarital affair that may have happened in 2006. an embarrassing story for the trump family and frankly a story that makes a lot of americans just feel sympathetic toward melania trump. >> a lot of tentacles to this because then of course it opens the questions of, like, so where did the money come from? is it the publisher? or is this money somehow trump may have given to the publisher, you know, payments of some sort? we don't know. >> those are the questions i have, that's right. >> okay, br

it stems, in part, between the close friendship thesident has with a man named david pecker the heada media organization that owns the ?"national enquirer," rig >> there is a term called "catch and kill" which is where a company like the tabloid media company you just re to acquires a story with the intentn to bury it, not to ru it. important to note a.m.i. had ample opportunity to comment on the story andwe sai didn't run the story because we didn't find it credible. but th accounts of niewmous a.m.i. former employees contradict that did. they say it was a method used by david packer to the benefit of his friend donald trump. >> woodruff: it's clear they t didn't wais accomplished. i assume they were contacting you doing whatever they coulto prevent you from writing about it? >> you know, i'll refer you to what we report in the piece, you know, which certainly does suggest that they tffe a ent view of events from the one that we report. >> so why is karen mcdougall the woman you talked about, why is she talking now? >> you know, she remains terrified ofaleg lut what she said. her pr

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