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pecker said he directed the editor of the enquirer to negotiate a number a price to buy the story and take it off the market. the door man it's paid $30,000 for the story, even though it later proved to be false, pecker told the court if the story got out to another publication or another media outlet, it would've been very embarrassing to the campaign. pecker claimed that the story were true. it would probably be the biggest sale of the national enquirer since the death of elvis let's presley, but then admitted if it were true, he wouldn't have published the story until after the election, but before pecker even took the stand, the proceedings of began with a heated hearing on the gag order imposed on trump in this case, the prosecution asked the judge to order trump to remove specific posts. they allege violate the gag order and fine him $1,000 for each of the alleged violations and remind him that incarceration is an option. should it be necessary? but defense attorney todd blanche argue that trump did not willfully violate the gag order and claim trump believes re-posting others a
pecker said he directed the editor of the enquirer to negotiate a number a price to buy the story and take it off the market. the door man it's paid $30,000 for the story, even though it later proved to be false, pecker told the court if the story got out to another publication or another media outlet, it would've been very embarrassing to the campaign. pecker claimed that the story were true. it would probably be the biggest sale of the national enquirer since the death of elvis let's presley,...
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the ways in which the national enquirer helped donald trump duringnq the 2016 campaig. david pecker, the former ceo of the enquirer testified his tabloid would run negative stories about each of donald trump's primaries opponents whenever they started to do well in the polls against donald trump. stories like bumling, and then there was shocking claims, pervy ted cruz caught cheating with five secret mistresses. that came outright after a series of polls found ted cruz pulling ahead of donald trump. what was d going down here wasn even subtle. trump was using the national enquirer to smear his opponents and to undermine their candidacies. and the enquirer was more than willing to oblige. in court today this is how mr. pecker described that process. pecker, michael cohen would call me and say we would like you to run a negative article on let's say for argument sake, on ted cruz. that was the nature of our story and we'd embellish it from there. prosecutor steinglass, you would michael cohen would call you and say we would like you to run a negativewe story is that corre
the ways in which the national enquirer helped donald trump duringnq the 2016 campaig. david pecker, the former ceo of the enquirer testified his tabloid would run negative stories about each of donald trump's primaries opponents whenever they started to do well in the polls against donald trump. stories like bumling, and then there was shocking claims, pervy ted cruz caught cheating with five secret mistresses. that came outright after a series of polls found ted cruz pulling ahead of donald...
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reach of the national enquirer. you know, the number of people who, you know, you would be very surprised to see in a supermarket sneaking a look at a magazine with a sensational cover. the same goes with that program he was on, the apprentice. i'm sure you were a weekly viewer like me. the point be is, that paved the way for donald trump. a lot of people watched that thing for more than a decade. shows a successful businessman who's tough with a heart of gold. none of those three things are true, but that was on that show so in 2016 people like me and my guests would be maybe you who were not weekly viewers of "the apprentice" didn't know how much that would do to ease his entry into politics. same with the national enquirer. >> jay, again in the special we've had all of our little details. we brought you and the historian here are big fish. no disrespect to other -- >> my mother said that about her children as well. >> jay, this is a heck of a story, and it's a heck of a way to go down. and i'm just curious what t
reach of the national enquirer. you know, the number of people who, you know, you would be very surprised to see in a supermarket sneaking a look at a magazine with a sensational cover. the same goes with that program he was on, the apprentice. i'm sure you were a weekly viewer like me. the point be is, that paved the way for donald trump. a lot of people watched that thing for more than a decade. shows a successful businessman who's tough with a heart of gold. none of those three things are...
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jurors listening intently today as the former publisher of "the national enquirer" testified about the confidential arrangement made with trump in 2015 to help his presidential campaign. publishing flattering stories about trump and hit jobs on his opponents. agreeing to be trump's quote eyes and ears for potentially damaging stories. one of them involving a former playboy model. her story was bought and never printed. abc's senior investigative reporter aaron katersky at the courthouse again tonight. >> reporter: today, as donald trump listened intently, the former publisher of "the national enquirer," for the first time, laying out the extraordinary relationship between candidate trump and the sordid supermarket tabloid, describing what he called the confidential arrangement he made with trump and trump's former fixer, michael cohen, to protect trump during the 2016 campaign. david pecker grinning widely as he pointed out trump in the courtroom, the former president smirking back. the two men had been friends for years. but pecker told the jury their relationship changed in 2015, aft
jurors listening intently today as the former publisher of "the national enquirer" testified about the confidential arrangement made with trump in 2015 to help his presidential campaign. publishing flattering stories about trump and hit jobs on his opponents. agreeing to be trump's quote eyes and ears for potentially damaging stories. one of them involving a former playboy model. her story was bought and never printed. abc's senior investigative reporter aaron katersky at the...
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also goes to the early days of the enquirer, the gary hart story is the oj stories. most of those stories, you can't write a check for. you have to investigate, you have to send reporters out. you have to do the digging, you have to knock some the doors. you have to cultivate sources who are going to trust you that went into the great stories we didn't, we couldn't write a check for john edwards. it took two years, but your sources you pay sources. i mean, yeah. there's no people surrounding karen mcdougal? yes, there's no question for exclusivity when you're a weekly publication and you need to hold someone from speaking to another media organization for a week's time, you're going to put them under some type of exclusivity. it could be a couple 100 dollars, it could be several thousands of dollars. i mean, we operated no differently. i mean, we were bold about the fact that we practice checkbook journalism and certainly there were individuals who called the enquirer tip line specifically because they were looking for money, but television shows would pay for video.
also goes to the early days of the enquirer, the gary hart story is the oj stories. most of those stories, you can't write a check for. you have to investigate, you have to send reporters out. you have to do the digging, you have to knock some the doors. you have to cultivate sources who are going to trust you that went into the great stories we didn't, we couldn't write a check for john edwards. it took two years, but your sources you pay sources. i mean, yeah. there's no people surrounding...
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i've always said why didn't the national enquirer get the pulitzer prize? >> why didn't the national enquirer get the pulitzer prize for breaking the big news that ted cruz's dad killed jfk? i mean that really -- you have to admit that's a scoop. look, world exclusive investigation. it's not even someone on another continent, had that, just the enquirer. and also headline hillary clinton was caught on camera. and at the same time they reported on hillary clinton's secret hitman, hillary hat man. they also broke the news hillary clinton was hooked on narcotics. she's on drugs. and they broke the news of donald trump getting revenge on hillary and her evil puppets. it says muslim obama, little bloomberg, weird kaine, meaning tim kaine. mob connection, shady million dollar deals, gay double life. boy, that really does sound like pulitzer material. that was also right around the time they broke the big news of hillary clinton's ten deadly secrets that every american must know, her ten -- ten deadly secrets. jail clinton now. donald trump says give them the puli
i've always said why didn't the national enquirer get the pulitzer prize? >> why didn't the national enquirer get the pulitzer prize for breaking the big news that ted cruz's dad killed jfk? i mean that really -- you have to admit that's a scoop. look, world exclusive investigation. it's not even someone on another continent, had that, just the enquirer. and also headline hillary clinton was caught on camera. and at the same time they reported on hillary clinton's secret hitman, hillary...
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if the story were true, it would probably be the biggest sale of the national enquirer since the death of elvis presley. but then admitted if it were true, he wouldn't have published the story until after the election court is not in session tomorrow, but pecker will be back on the stand thursday, facing more questions about the effort to catch and kill the story of karen mcdougal, woman who allegedly had a year affair with trump but then prosecutors are going to press packer on why he didn't catch and kill the story of stormy daniels. and instead passed her story. often michael cohen, aaron. >> all right, paula, thank you very much. and i want to go now to soucie a who worked closely with david pecker at the national enquirer's parent company. elizabeth williams is also win it does the sketch artist who was in the courtroom with donald trump today. and of course has been throughout this trial. now you all know her and our legal experts, karen friedman, agnifilo, and stacy schneider. so all right. so great to have all of you. let me just start straight off with you. so you were pecker'
if the story were true, it would probably be the biggest sale of the national enquirer since the death of elvis presley. but then admitted if it were true, he wouldn't have published the story until after the election court is not in session tomorrow, but pecker will be back on the stand thursday, facing more questions about the effort to catch and kill the story of karen mcdougal, woman who allegedly had a year affair with trump but then prosecutors are going to press packer on why he didn't...
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the ways in which the national enquirer helped donald trump in the 2016 campaign. david the former ceo of the enquirer testified that his tabloid would run negative stories about each of donald trump's primary opponents when ever they started to do well in the polls against trump. stories like bungling surgeon ben carson left sponge in patient's brain. that came after a poll showing ben carson leading trump for the first time. and there was shocking claims, ted cruz caught cheating with five secret mistresses. that came out after polls showed ted cruz ahead of donald trump. what is going down here wasn't even subtle. trump was using the national enquirer to smear his opponents and undermine their candidacies and the enquirer was more than willing to oblige. in court, this is how mr. described that process. michael cohen would call me and say we would like you to run a negative article on ted cruz. he would send me information about ted cruz or ben carson or marco rubio. that was the basis of our story and we would embellish it from there. steinglass said you would
the ways in which the national enquirer helped donald trump in the 2016 campaign. david the former ceo of the enquirer testified that his tabloid would run negative stories about each of donald trump's primary opponents when ever they started to do well in the polls against trump. stories like bungling surgeon ben carson left sponge in patient's brain. that came after a poll showing ben carson leading trump for the first time. and there was shocking claims, ted cruz caught cheating with five...
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he understood the reach of the national enquirer. the number of people who you would be very surprised to see in the supermarket sneaking a look at an article inside a magazine with a sensational cover and the same goes for the program that he was on, the apprentice? i'm sure that you were a weekly viewer just like me right? very aware of it. but the point is that paved the way for donald trump because a lot of people watched that thing for more than a decade. shows a successful businessman who is tough with a heart of gold. none of those three things are true. in 2016, people like me and my guests, didn't know how much that would do to ease his entry into politics. same with the national inquirer. >> we have owl of our little details. we brought you and the historian here. our big fish. okay? we know disrespect to any of the others. all our fish are special. >> my mother said that about her children as well. >> this is a heck of a story. and a heck of a way to go down. would you write a novel this way? would it be too farfetched? >>
he understood the reach of the national enquirer. the number of people who you would be very surprised to see in the supermarket sneaking a look at an article inside a magazine with a sensational cover and the same goes for the program that he was on, the apprentice? i'm sure that you were a weekly viewer just like me right? very aware of it. but the point is that paved the way for donald trump because a lot of people watched that thing for more than a decade. shows a successful businessman who...
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i've always said, why didn't the "national enquirer" get the pulitzer prize? >> why didn't the "national enquirer" get the pulitzer prize for breaking the big news that ted cruz's dad killed jfk? i mean, that really was a -- you have to admit that's a scoop. look, world exclusive investigation. it's not even like somebody on another continent also has that, just the enquirer. no, that of course came after the "national enquirer"'s big scoop that hillary clinton had been caught on camera having gay romp at seedy motel. seedy romp caught on camera at this hotel. that was right around the same time they reported on hillary clinton's secret hitman. hillary hitman. they broke the news that hillary clinton was hooked on narcotics. they broke the news of donald trump getting revenge on hillary and his evil puppets. it says muslim obama, weird kane, meaning tim kane. mob connections. shady deals. gay double life. boy, that really does sound like pulitzer material. that was right around the time they broke the 10 deadly secrets of hillary clinton every american must kn
i've always said, why didn't the "national enquirer" get the pulitzer prize? >> why didn't the "national enquirer" get the pulitzer prize for breaking the big news that ted cruz's dad killed jfk? i mean, that really was a -- you have to admit that's a scoop. look, world exclusive investigation. it's not even like somebody on another continent also has that, just the enquirer. no, that of course came after the "national enquirer"'s big scoop that hillary...
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well, you worked with the enquirer for a long time. you had some involvement with that doorman's story. how do you what do you make of him as a witness? >> well, listen, i was there anderson for 17 years. i was actually the first editorial higher for david pecker back in 1999 it's certainly troubling to be to be watching this unfold in thinking back to the great years of breaking so many great stories, john edwards, tiger woods jesse jackson's paternity of a child i was i left the inquire after the doorman's story two months before the karen mcdougal story, before they got involved with that. and the last trump's story that i did work on was the doorman's story and david pecker was absolutely right. had that story turned out to be true, and he published it, it would have been a mega sale it might have sold millions of copies. >> did you know that he was going to kill it if it turned out, regardless of what it turned out. well, listen, i mean, i remember going back to 2010 when i knew back from the early days that david was close to don
well, you worked with the enquirer for a long time. you had some involvement with that doorman's story. how do you what do you make of him as a witness? >> well, listen, i was there anderson for 17 years. i was actually the first editorial higher for david pecker back in 1999 it's certainly troubling to be to be watching this unfold in thinking back to the great years of breaking so many great stories, john edwards, tiger woods jesse jackson's paternity of a child i was i left the inquire...
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they went into the basement in the national enquirer was waiting there for them the whole myth has to be reimagined he didn't know whether you were next they are both tied up. yeah. yeah. i was called in and i saw what turned out to be the biggest heist in history it went from goldman metal winning icon to a pariah how it really happened with jesse l. martin tomorrow at nine on cnn doug, hello, ghostbusters it's duck of doggedly moon. we help people customize and save hundreds on car insurance with liberty mutual. >> anyway, we got a bit of a situation here. sure. i can only pay for what you need those clusters, frozen empire in theaters now rose sparks engineered for the spontaneous, a dual action formula with the active ingredients of viagra. >> and see alice faster acting and long-lasting grabbed the moment get started at row slash sparks transfer your ira or your old 401 k to robert wood by april 30th, and it will give you a 3% boost with the biggest match of any ira on the market robin hood gold gets you the most for retirement ocd is more than what you see on tv. and in the movi
they went into the basement in the national enquirer was waiting there for them the whole myth has to be reimagined he didn't know whether you were next they are both tied up. yeah. yeah. i was called in and i saw what turned out to be the biggest heist in history it went from goldman metal winning icon to a pariah how it really happened with jesse l. martin tomorrow at nine on cnn doug, hello, ghostbusters it's duck of doggedly moon. we help people customize and save hundreds on car insurance...
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the enquirer was the key example in 2015 and 2016. he created, built up with his friend david pecker this alternative system to get out his news to his voters. we're seeing it be dissected now in real time in this trial. this idea of friends of pecker, fops, a friend of pecker, so trump gets a free ride. it is nothing to do with journalism. in fact, david pecker is revealing himself not to be a news man. he's an advertiser, a marketering, and his product was donald trump. >> when he gave him something about an estimate of $3 million a month of free advertising. he created a magazine that was a quarterly magazine that's literally just about donald trump. he was talking about it in these weird reverential terms. he was asked what can you do to help the campaign? he's oh, i know what i can do. we're going to find all these negative stories. >> your, quote, eyes and ears. and michael cohen was the go between. to your point, this is setting up the cohen testimony. >> how is that a crime? that's what the prosecutor has to prove. catch and k
the enquirer was the key example in 2015 and 2016. he created, built up with his friend david pecker this alternative system to get out his news to his voters. we're seeing it be dissected now in real time in this trial. this idea of friends of pecker, fops, a friend of pecker, so trump gets a free ride. it is nothing to do with journalism. in fact, david pecker is revealing himself not to be a news man. he's an advertiser, a marketering, and his product was donald trump. >> when he gave...
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trump's long-time friend david pecker, the former publisher of the "national enquirer" offering the jury a rare glimpse into the underworld of tabloid tactics, as the state seeks to prove the former president doctored his internal business records to cover up the payoff of an adult film actress just days before the 2016 election. >> mr. trump, what do you think of david pecker? >> reporter: pecker describing a meeting at trump tower in 2015 with mr. trump and his former fixer michael cohen, where pecker says he agreed to serve as the eyes and ears for rumors that could hurt mr. trump, adding, "what i would do is publish positive stories about trump and publish negative stories about his opponents." the prosecution then showing the jury a series of glowing headlines about then candidate trump and derogatory ones making baseless claims about mr. trump's republican opponents, including ted cruz. pecker admitting today the enquirer made up a story about cruz's father and the man who assassinated jfk. also testifying his company paid a doorman $30,000 for a completely untrue story about mr. t
trump's long-time friend david pecker, the former publisher of the "national enquirer" offering the jury a rare glimpse into the underworld of tabloid tactics, as the state seeks to prove the former president doctored his internal business records to cover up the payoff of an adult film actress just days before the 2016 election. >> mr. trump, what do you think of david pecker? >> reporter: pecker describing a meeting at trump tower in 2015 with mr. trump and his former...
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at the enquirer, for example, i was thinking about some of the targets of the enquirer are some of the victims some of the people who have been smeared by the tabloid in the past, they have like into these tactics to blackmail, to bribery. but what we're also hearing about it, some of the more run of the mill work, the enquirer would do right? dirty up pictures of hillary clinton and make donald trump a celebrity. it was that kind of run of the mill work that was helping trump as well as as this more sensitive work that we're hearing. now confessed to now admit to in real time. it's all comes down to three letters. kaitlan within the enquirer, these people were known as f o p is friends of donald trump was on the list. he was an f0, p0, and so was treated very kindly. and as we're hearing, he was treated in ways that were not be fitting a presidential candidate, but instead, just a friend from florida well and what do you make brian, of how secret they tried to keep all of this because david are just testified that leaks were very prevalent in the organization and he didn't want anyone
at the enquirer, for example, i was thinking about some of the targets of the enquirer are some of the victims some of the people who have been smeared by the tabloid in the past, they have like into these tactics to blackmail, to bribery. but what we're also hearing about it, some of the more run of the mill work, the enquirer would do right? dirty up pictures of hillary clinton and make donald trump a celebrity. it was that kind of run of the mill work that was helping trump as well as as...
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the national enquirer is tabloid trash. but it's run by his good friend, david who has endorsed trump. he uses this to smear everybody and anybody. >> the national enquirer has become a hit piece he uses to smear anybody and everybody. eight years ago, the transactional relationship between donald trump and the national enquirer was so obvious, that ted cruz was just talking about on the campaign trail. now today was the second day of witness testimony and the first criminal trial of a former president, donald trump rate and the focus of the testimony was the very same thing ted cruz highlighted in ways the national enquirer helped donald trump during the 2016 campaign. former ceo of the inquirer, david testified his story would run negative stories about opponents whenever they started to do well, stories like bumbling surgeon left sponge inpatient's brain. i cannot right after a poll that showed ben carson leading trump for the first time. ben carson denies that allegation about the sponge by the way. then there were shoc
the national enquirer is tabloid trash. but it's run by his good friend, david who has endorsed trump. he uses this to smear everybody and anybody. >> the national enquirer has become a hit piece he uses to smear anybody and everybody. eight years ago, the transactional relationship between donald trump and the national enquirer was so obvious, that ted cruz was just talking about on the campaign trail. now today was the second day of witness testimony and the first criminal trial of a...
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, the former publisher of "the national enquirer" testifying that even after trump became president, he still kept tabs on women who had been paid to keep quiet about their alleged affairs. >> david's been very nice. nice guy. >> reporter: pecker telling the jury that at trump's direction, "the enquirer's" parent company bought the story of former "playboy" model karen mcdougal, who claimed she had a year-long sexual relationship with trump. pecker saying it could be "very embarrassing" to trump's campaign. he described a meeting at trump tower shortly after the election. trump saying, "i want to thank you for handling the mcdougal situation." then asking, "how's our girl?" pecker replying, "she's quiet. things are going fine." months later, trump invited pecker to the white house and asked again, "how's karen doing?" pecker recalled responding, "she's doing well. she's quiet." and he described a phone call where top white house officials hope hicks and sarah huckabee sanders encouraged him to keep paying mcdougal. >> mr. trump, do you still like pecker? >> reporter: and then there w
, the former publisher of "the national enquirer" testifying that even after trump became president, he still kept tabs on women who had been paid to keep quiet about their alleged affairs. >> david's been very nice. nice guy. >> reporter: pecker telling the jury that at trump's direction, "the enquirer's" parent company bought the story of former "playboy" model karen mcdougal, who claimed she had a year-long sexual relationship with trump. pecker...
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enquirer, one of the most interesting aspects of the enquirer is always been the idea of a polygraph test to substantiate those who are involved in this where checkbook journalism not admissible of law, missile part of law in this instance, he's trying to make sure they already had these pretrial motions where lawyers are saying here, what are the guardrails if you were to go beyond that, there's a problem. they know very well. this will likely result if there is a conviction that's an if, then an appeal. we'll go through every part of that. anyone violate the rules beforehand are trying to make sure that they know that the prosecution is trying to toe that particular line. but one of the reasons people would look to these publications was to say, well gosh, do i believe you the polygraph tesla literally did not know that. oh, well, okay. sure. dana got it. i don't knew it. >> i'm familiar with occasions, but the bottom line here is that he's trying to establish that there was some way to show as a part of the scheme but the prosecution has got to go to the next level in this witness
enquirer, one of the most interesting aspects of the enquirer is always been the idea of a polygraph test to substantiate those who are involved in this where checkbook journalism not admissible of law, missile part of law in this instance, he's trying to make sure they already had these pretrial motions where lawyers are saying here, what are the guardrails if you were to go beyond that, there's a problem. they know very well. this will likely result if there is a conviction that's an if, then...
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former publisher of the national enquirer, david the government alleges agreed to use the enquirer to help trump's campaign by buying and suppressing negative stories about him and by amplifying stories that were favorable to him prosecutors allege the salacious access hollywood tape on earth just before the 2016 election was significant because it turned the rest of the presidential campaign entirely upside down when you're stuck hi there let you do it. >> you can do anything, whatever you grabbing but they alleged that once the tape became public, trump's campaign went into damage control mode worried about what an allegation of an affair with adult film star might do trump and cohen arranged a $130,000 payment to keep store for me, daniel's quiet just two weeks before the election at the cia case as to bookkeeping which is a very minor thing. james of the lawn, and this is what they try and take me off the trail form that checks being made to a lawyer is a lawyer? there was a lawyer in the defense is opening statement. >> attorney todd blanche argued his client is innocent. >> thin
former publisher of the national enquirer, david the government alleges agreed to use the enquirer to help trump's campaign by buying and suppressing negative stories about him and by amplifying stories that were favorable to him prosecutors allege the salacious access hollywood tape on earth just before the 2016 election was significant because it turned the rest of the presidential campaign entirely upside down when you're stuck hi there let you do it. >> you can do anything, whatever...
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pecker said he told his right hand man at the "enquirer" not to pay daniels the $120,000 she was seeking because they'd already shelled out tens of thousands of dollars to keep other stories about mr. trump quiet. if anyone should buy it, pecker said, it should be donald trump and michael cohen, trump's former fixer. pecker says when he told cohen, quote, he was upset and responded that the boss, that's referring to trump, would be furious with me. pecker said today he believed mr. trump or his company had paid daniels until cohen told him in december of 2016 that he was the one who paid her. prosecutors are seeking to prove mr. trump doctored internal business records to cover up that payment. pecker also testified trump was aghast when he saw stormy daniels on "60 minutes." >> was it hush money to stay silent? >> yes. >> reporter: pecker says trump called him. he says we have an agreement with stormy daniels that she cannot mention my name. trump later denied knowledge of the arrangement. on cross-examination, mr. trump's lawyers challenging pecker's credibility and business practices.
pecker said he told his right hand man at the "enquirer" not to pay daniels the $120,000 she was seeking because they'd already shelled out tens of thousands of dollars to keep other stories about mr. trump quiet. if anyone should buy it, pecker said, it should be donald trump and michael cohen, trump's former fixer. pecker says when he told cohen, quote, he was upset and responded that the boss, that's referring to trump, would be furious with me. pecker said today he believed mr....
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that is on the enquirer as the lead. it doesn't matter if you are pro or con that image is going went to resonate with you somehow. that is the power that david offer trump to squash stories that he would feel were negative towards him or give him a heads up. and that's where we see what happened with stormy daniels and karen mcdougal& a lot of other stories as a result of that. >> that's really fascinating what you just laid out about the psychology hello, g of the supermarket. i think we can all relate when you walk, you do see the same thing or the lack of the same thing what that does to our psyche, whatever you think about a story. let's do thank you very much. i appreciate it. i'm so glad to talk to you well, thank you for having erin and i just want to say one thing as who celebrate passover tonight, i want to make sure everyone knows we are keeping the hostages from hamas in our hearts. >> and hope that they are safe all right, let's do thank you very much next russian state television going all in on what unquot
that is on the enquirer as the lead. it doesn't matter if you are pro or con that image is going went to resonate with you somehow. that is the power that david offer trump to squash stories that he would feel were negative towards him or give him a heads up. and that's where we see what happened with stormy daniels and karen mcdougal& a lot of other stories as a result of that. >> that's really fascinating what you just laid out about the psychology hello, g of the supermarket. i...
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phone, give the enquirer a phone call and discuss the offer and whether the national enquirer may potentially buy her story. donald trump said he heard that "dancing with the stars" was interested in purchasing her story. donald trump told pecker that he didn't want to personally by her story because that always gets out were the words of donald trump according to pecker. but this is a detailed back and forth. ultimately, we expect pecker tomorrow to testify that american media, the parent company of national enquirer, ultimately purchased the rights to karen mcdougle, but we are not that at that point in time. there's a lot of the back and forth -- >> vaughn, i'm going interrupt you because donald trump has come out of court. >> and i don't even know, a gag order. which to me is totally unconstitutional. i'm not allowed to talk to people. so they can talk about me, say whatever they want. they can lie, but i'm not allowed to say anything. i just have to sit back and look at why the conflicted judge has ordered me to have a gag order. i think anybody's ever seen anything like this. i'd love t
phone, give the enquirer a phone call and discuss the offer and whether the national enquirer may potentially buy her story. donald trump said he heard that "dancing with the stars" was interested in purchasing her story. donald trump told pecker that he didn't want to personally by her story because that always gets out were the words of donald trump according to pecker. but this is a detailed back and forth. ultimately, we expect pecker tomorrow to testify that american media, the...
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the "national enquirer." it is a nothing burger compared to the "national enquirer." i started with that mcdoug alex change comes toward the end of the day because that is when pecker in his calm, and everyone described him as credible and calm and likeable. kind of person a jury -- a juror would find as likeable and affable. he's describing being on the phone with trump and trup doesn't say i'm not going to buy the story because i didn't do it. i'm not going to buy it because when you do it, it gets out anyway. and just the intimacy with trump and the cash and kill. and he's embarrassed of catch and kill. he's proud of checkbook journalism. that is stunning. >> and some things rang true going back to the apprentice years. they had a relationship and it really flourished during the apprenticeship, it was popular and he could put trump on the cover and they would leaktories about the contestants. >> and the ratings. >> and donald trump back then, you talk to anybody at nbc, that guy was obsessed with the ratin
the "national enquirer." it is a nothing burger compared to the "national enquirer." i started with that mcdoug alex change comes toward the end of the day because that is when pecker in his calm, and everyone described him as credible and calm and likeable. kind of person a jury -- a juror would find as likeable and affable. he's describing being on the phone with trump and trup doesn't say i'm not going to buy the story because i didn't do it. i'm not going to buy it...
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magazines such as the national enquirer. pecker recalled saying he'd quote run or publish positive stories about mr. trump and published negative stories about his opponents on quote& if he heard of women's selling stories about mr. trump who he called an eligible bachelor, although he was married, pecker said that he would notify michael cohen and he'd have the stories. in other magazines. pecker also testified, quote, in a presidential campaign, i was the person that thought that there would be a lot of women who would come out to try to sell their stories because mr. trump was well-known, is the most eligible bachelor and dated the most beautiful women, unquote. >> pecker also said, have you heard of women selling stories he'd notified cohen he'd had the stories killed. >> he said, i think it was a mutual benefit. it would help his campaign and it would also help me unquote the tactic discussed in that meeting. it's called catch and kill by somebody by the rights to a story. and instead of running it kill it. it's not ill
magazines such as the national enquirer. pecker recalled saying he'd quote run or publish positive stories about mr. trump and published negative stories about his opponents on quote& if he heard of women's selling stories about mr. trump who he called an eligible bachelor, although he was married, pecker said that he would notify michael cohen and he'd have the stories. in other magazines. pecker also testified, quote, in a presidential campaign, i was the person that thought that there...
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fact that on the cover of the "national enquirer" there is a picture him and crazy lee harvey oswald having breakfast. now ted never denied that it was his father. instead he said donald trump, i had nothing to do with it. >> donald's source for this is the "national enquirer." the "national enquirer" is tabloid trash, but it's run by his good friend david pecker, the ceo, who has endorsed donald trump. and so the "national enquirer" has become his hit piece that he uses to smear anybody and everybody. >> ted cruz was correct. let me repeat. ted cruz was correct. and people watching that at the time might have covered it like horse race politics or well, these are just two politicians fighting, or okay, they dragged the enquirer into it. but what was not well exposed at the time, what it only took a federal case, the separate investigation at sdny and this then this case and pecker's immunity and him coming to the stand, what we now learn many years later is that ted cruz was right about that very point. and that it was more than just unfair and inaccurate, that it was a kind of poli
fact that on the cover of the "national enquirer" there is a picture him and crazy lee harvey oswald having breakfast. now ted never denied that it was his father. instead he said donald trump, i had nothing to do with it. >> donald's source for this is the "national enquirer." the "national enquirer" is tabloid trash, but it's run by his good friend david pecker, the ceo, who has endorsed donald trump. and so the "national enquirer" has become his...
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the mcdougall case was a little more complicated because it went through the national enquirer. there was this accusation that the national wire was paying for her life story under this catch and kill strategy and never published anything about her life story. the newspaper executives denied that happened. they say they were going to make payments for fitness columns she would write. the thing about the stormy daniels payment is that cohen set up a company that he transferred the money through as an intermediary company because he was worried about his own wife finding out about these payments and having a probm with that. it was quite a detailed story and i'm sure we will hear all of those details again and maybe have trump's lawyers taking apart that inconsistencies or flaws they see in the narrative. he will be arguing that he didn't know this large chunk of money was going to stormy daniels and cohen will testify that he knew. host: all of this will play out in the coming weeks and that meant courtroom. go to usa today for coverage. thanks for the preview this morning. guest
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the former executive editor of the "national enquirer" will be here. he has a lot to say and we can't wait to hear it. plus hour, damaging it could be the trump's presidential campaign as a man who is used to being in control has so very little of it in the courtroom. the first criminal trial against donald trump continues. against donald trump continues ♪♪ ♪♪ bounce back fast from heartburn with new tums gummy bites, and love food back. ♪♪ norman, bad news... i never graduated from med school. what? but the good news is... xfinity mobile just got even better! now, you can automatically connect to wifi speeds up to a gig on the go. plus, buy one unlimited line and get one free for a year. i gotta get this deal... that's like $20 a month per unlimited line... i don't want to miss that. that's amazing doc. mobile savings are calling. visit xfinitymobile.com to learn more. from chavez and huerta to striking janitors in the 90s to today's fast-food workers. californians have led the way. now, $20/hour is here. thanks to governor newsom and lead
the former executive editor of the "national enquirer" will be here. he has a lot to say and we can't wait to hear it. plus hour, damaging it could be the trump's presidential campaign as a man who is used to being in control has so very little of it in the courtroom. the first criminal trial against donald trump continues. against donald trump continues ♪♪ ♪♪ bounce back fast from heartburn with new tums gummy bites, and love food back. ♪♪ norman, bad news... i never...
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the mcdougall case was a little more complicated because it went through the national enquirer. there was this accusation that the national wire was paying for her life story under this catch and kill strategy and never published anything about her life story. the newspaper executives denied that happened. they say they were going to make payments for fitness columns she would write. the thing about the stormy daniels payment is that cohen set up a company that he transferred the money through as an intermediary company because he was worried about his own wife finding out about these payments and having a problem with that. it was quite a detailed story and i'm sure we will hear all of those details again and maybe have trump's lawyers taking apart that inconsistencies or flaws they see in the narrative. he will be arguing that he didn't know this large chunk of money was going to stormy daniels and cohen will testify that he knew. host: all of this will play out in the coming weeks and that meant courtroom. go to usa today for coverage. >> with parliamentary leaders from franc
the mcdougall case was a little more complicated because it went through the national enquirer. there was this accusation that the national wire was paying for her life story under this catch and kill strategy and never published anything about her life story. the newspaper executives denied that happened. they say they were going to make payments for fitness columns she would write. the thing about the stormy daniels payment is that cohen set up a company that he transferred the money through...
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helped the national enquirer giving its readers what they apparently wanted, so the enquirer helped trump however he wanted. and just to be clear here it was a totally unethical arranged, but it really seems like trump and the right wing and right wing media today are doing something quite similar. there may not be an explis lt agreement, but there is certainly a symbiotic relationship here, and that could really matter when it comes to this gag order. from the very beginning of this trial right-wing media has been repeating trump's lies about this case even the small stuff like claiming the judge barred trump from going to his son's high school graduation. in reality the judge has yet to make a decision on that request. in ways both big and small right-wing media has been diminishing trump's potentially illegal actions in this case and claiming that trump being prosecuted is the real injustice here. >> do you think this is just compensation for a nondisclosure agreement which happens all the time in big businesses especially? >> it was not wrong. you hire lawyers to solve problems,
helped the national enquirer giving its readers what they apparently wanted, so the enquirer helped trump however he wanted. and just to be clear here it was a totally unethical arranged, but it really seems like trump and the right wing and right wing media today are doing something quite similar. there may not be an explis lt agreement, but there is certainly a symbiotic relationship here, and that could really matter when it comes to this gag order. from the very beginning of this trial...
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see david pecker, the man who ran the national enquirer back on the stand. >> this will be the meat of the cross-examination after pecker testified in vivid detail how he buried bad stories about donald trump in vivid detail about how trump would keep asking about the playboy playmate with whom he allegedly had an affair and in vivid detail, a conversation that trump had about stormy daniels with david pecker. >> now, remember, trump is charged with falsifying business documents to hide hush money payments to daniels today, we expect that offense to question pecker's memory and also suggests that there was nothing unusual about the catch and kill arrangement he had with trump. we can also see the next witness today. will it be stormy daniels herself and really any moment now, trump could be found in contempt for violating the gag order. let's get right to cnn's kaitlan, poland's for the latest on what we will see this morning. kayla well, john, we don't know who the next witness will be, but we have more testimony from david pecker first, there will be more questioning of him from dona
see david pecker, the man who ran the national enquirer back on the stand. >> this will be the meat of the cross-examination after pecker testified in vivid detail how he buried bad stories about donald trump in vivid detail about how trump would keep asking about the playboy playmate with whom he allegedly had an affair and in vivid detail, a conversation that trump had about stormy daniels with david pecker. >> now, remember, trump is charged with falsifying business documents to...
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2016 election, "the wall street journal" reported that american media, which owned the "enquirer" at the time that had paid mcdougal $150,000 for the rights to her story, which was never published. in the gag order here, the prosecution argued trump should be held in contempt for all of his scathing commentary about this case. trump lawyer todd blanche said his client has been careful with his words. to that, the judge said, that's%
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ami, the company that used to own the national enquirer. two salient points here about that testimony from david pecker. he's only on the stand for like half an hour today, but we get all of this salient stuff for the prosecution's case. first of all, there's what he said about what counts as a normal amount of money for the kind of checkbook journalism that he says his company does. anything over $10,000, that would be unusual. that would be sort of out of bounds. that would have to get personal approval from him as the chairman, president, and ceo of not just one of these publications but the entire company with dozens of publications. ten grand was the ceiling. beyond that, it had to go personally through him. but in this case, prosecutors say they will present evidence that ami was doing something in a whole other league when it came to what they were doing for trump. for example, before even investigating a trump property doorman's claim about trump's supposedly fathering a secret child with a housekeeper, they paid that man $30,000. t
ami, the company that used to own the national enquirer. two salient points here about that testimony from david pecker. he's only on the stand for like half an hour today, but we get all of this salient stuff for the prosecution's case. first of all, there's what he said about what counts as a normal amount of money for the kind of checkbook journalism that he says his company does. anything over $10,000, that would be unusual. that would be sort of out of bounds. that would have to get...
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reporter: his name is david pecker and he is the publisher of the national enquirer, the tabloid newspaper at the center of this so-called catch and kill scheme that prosecutors were introducing to jurors. in many ways he is there for -- perfect first witness. prosecutors say he was part of a meeting in august 2015 with donald trump and michael cohen where they discussed the national enquirer helping donald trump's campaign showing the connection between the tabloid newspaper and a presidential campaign. they said they would be on the lookout for any negative stories that would impact him with voters. and that they said was the precursor to the way these hush-money payments were made. first with stormy daniels and later with karen mcdougal who herself was paid by the national enquirer. they are using david pecker to set the stage. we have scratched the surface with his beginning testimony that will continue tomorrow. host: tell us about what we heard from the defense in the opening arguments. reporter: the defense's role today in their opening statement was to sow doubt through the prosecu
reporter: his name is david pecker and he is the publisher of the national enquirer, the tabloid newspaper at the center of this so-called catch and kill scheme that prosecutors were introducing to jurors. in many ways he is there for -- perfect first witness. prosecutors say he was part of a meeting in august 2015 with donald trump and michael cohen where they discussed the national enquirer helping donald trump's campaign showing the connection between the tabloid newspaper and a presidential...
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he was the ceo of the company that used to run the national enquirer. 's testimony only got started today. it was only on the stand for half an hour. even just in the half an hour, get prosecutors a bunch of what they wanted. we will talk about how weird it was that one trump's defense counsel was giving his opening argument, his opening statement to the jury today, there were multiple objections from the prosecutors. objections to the opening statement including multiple objections that were sustained by the judge would let to the judge, multiple times, stopping the opening statement and making all the lawyers come up to the bench to talk to him in private. it was bizarre to see in person. we will get advice on how out that is as a matter of law and of trial procedure in new york. we will tonight get to the card that prosecutors have in their deck that seems logically unassailable, at least 10 nonlawyer observers of this case. a card the prosecutors have in their deck that they showed a little today and he goes to the heart of this matter. we heard no
he was the ceo of the company that used to run the national enquirer. 's testimony only got started today. it was only on the stand for half an hour. even just in the half an hour, get prosecutors a bunch of what they wanted. we will talk about how weird it was that one trump's defense counsel was giving his opening argument, his opening statement to the jury today, there were multiple objections from the prosecutors. objections to the opening statement including multiple objections that were...
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at the time it was, it was the norm at the national enquirer. i don't think we can extrapolate and say that other tabloids we're engaging in the same behavior. but there were certainly a lot of this kind of sketchy behavior going on at the enquirer and some of the other publications that were also owned by american media, inc. remember the enquirer is just one of those brands. when you talk to x staff are some of the enquirer, some of them now have regrets. some of them look back and say that they were engaged in so many morally dubious, so many ethically compromising behaviors that it all became normal than it all started to feel like a normal part of the job when it was anything but and i think that's interesting subplot to this trial. anderson that's this is all about the legal case, but there's an ethical dynamic and ethical component to this. trump's character is also being tested. who was he, who is he taking advantage of in this case? david pecker. and of course, becker was taking advantage of him a little bit to try to sell more copies o
at the time it was, it was the norm at the national enquirer. i don't think we can extrapolate and say that other tabloids we're engaging in the same behavior. but there were certainly a lot of this kind of sketchy behavior going on at the enquirer and some of the other publications that were also owned by american media, inc. remember the enquirer is just one of those brands. when you talk to x staff are some of the enquirer, some of them now have regrets. some of them look back and say that...
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this is where the buck stopped at "the enquirer," right? >> that was a surreal moment when they put up the dino doorman contract. that contract was in a safe that was in my office. a moment came where i had to open that safe, because i was helping "the wall street journal" after they broke the karen mcdougal story, and the reporter asking about other incidents going on. i told him about the doorman catch and kill, and he was trying to track down the names of the -- both the love child, the love adult at that time because of her age, and the woman. so i had to get the contract out of this rusty old safe, and then signaled him the -- david pecker was referring to how he communicated with michael cohen the encrypted messaging app, i went to put the contract back in the safe and tried to close the safe and the door wouldn't close. and i was panicking. i thought at any moment, dylan howard would come in and see the safe open. so i had to turn the tv up on my office, and i was there hammering the safe. and it finally shut. but it was terrifying m
this is where the buck stopped at "the enquirer," right? >> that was a surreal moment when they put up the dino doorman contract. that contract was in a safe that was in my office. a moment came where i had to open that safe, because i was helping "the wall street journal" after they broke the karen mcdougal story, and the reporter asking about other incidents going on. i told him about the doorman catch and kill, and he was trying to track down the names of the --...
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the major testimony today, the relationship between donald trump and "the national enquirer." >>> campus protests turning violent tonight. >>> and the vintage plane that just went down. images of the crash just in tonight. >>> first, donald trump's criminal trial. the former publisher of "the national enquirer" on the stand, testifying about how this worked before the 2016 election. buying stories and then killing them to protect trump. and the story the former publisher admitted today was made up. >>> tonight, the dramatic images coming in, student demonstrators face-to-face with police in riot gear. chairs and bottles thrown at police during a protest at nyu. protesters occupying buildings, clashing with riot police at cal poly. officers sweeping through campuses, hundreds arrested during pro-palestinian demonstrations. >>> tonight, the urgent manhunt for a former police officer suspected of killing two people, including his exwire -wife and another victim. now believed to be on the run with his 1-year-old son. >>> tonight, the justice department agreeing to a massive settlement with v
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former president donald trump isn't attacking david pecker, the former publisher of the "national enquirer," just yet, but pecker's testimony today here in lower manhattan the direct and trump, offering new details about an alleged catch and kill operation to influence the 2016 election. this morning, former president trump weighed in on a key witness in his criminal trial. warmer "national enquirer" publisher david pecker. >> he's been very nice. i mean, david has been very nice. he's a nice guy. >> reporter: trump has known to be 21 for decades and oscars allege the pair along with former trump lawyer michael cohen engage in a conspiracy to suppress negative stories about trump as he ran for president in 2016. pecker told jurors just after the "access hollywood" tapes surface just late wow weeks before the election. >> just start kissing them. >> reporter: discussions of what to do with stormy daniels heated up. the adult form star was according to pecker shot him a story of her alleged affair wit. pecker testified he did not have the money so it told cohen to buy and burying the story.
former president donald trump isn't attacking david pecker, the former publisher of the "national enquirer," just yet, but pecker's testimony today here in lower manhattan the direct and trump, offering new details about an alleged catch and kill operation to influence the 2016 election. this morning, former president trump weighed in on a key witness in his criminal trial. warmer "national enquirer" publisher david pecker. >> he's been very nice. i mean, david has...
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what can the enquirer do? he also talk about a conversation on the phone with donald trump when karen mcdougal surfaced. michael has told me about karen, what do you think? we know from david pecker's beginning testimony he talked to trump once he became a candidate at least once a week by phone and saw him in person once a month. what's notable about that, he saw and talked to trump more after he became a candidate than he did before. usually when people run for president of the united states and become a pay jar party nomination they have less time for the other people in their life as they're blanketing the trail. >> the check book journalism that was laid out in full display in the courtroom. definitely when i was growing up, you're younger, going to the grocery store with my mom there was national enquirer, crazy pictures of famous people and crazy stories, is the theme here is that enquirer could move the meter on the way people think, do people see this as journalism, is this surprising to the jury. >>
what can the enquirer do? he also talk about a conversation on the phone with donald trump when karen mcdougal surfaced. michael has told me about karen, what do you think? we know from david pecker's beginning testimony he talked to trump once he became a candidate at least once a week by phone and saw him in person once a month. what's notable about that, he saw and talked to trump more after he became a candidate than he did before. usually when people run for president of the united states...
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which publishes the national enquirer. he had a very cozy symbiotic relationship with donald trump and steinglass has been examining packer for the prosecution, talking specifically, not just about the previous catch and kill deals fuels that they had where the national enquirer would, by a story damaging to trump so that they would spike it, hide it from the public. they did that with a doorman's story from trump tower that apparently was just not based in reality, they paid $30,000 for it. it wasn't true. doesn't even we don't need to go into the details of that. the second story that apparently these individuals at the national enquirer thought was likely to be true, had to do with donald trump's alleged long-term relationship with 1998 playmate of the year, karen mcdougal. they paid her $150,000 for a column she was going to write for a magazine that was part of the ami em empire not specifically the national enquirer and they, and they were just going to have a ghostwriter write it and they ended up not publishing tha
which publishes the national enquirer. he had a very cozy symbiotic relationship with donald trump and steinglass has been examining packer for the prosecution, talking specifically, not just about the previous catch and kill deals fuels that they had where the national enquirer would, by a story damaging to trump so that they would spike it, hide it from the public. they did that with a doorman's story from trump tower that apparently was just not based in reality, they paid $30,000 for it. it...
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the idea that the head of the "national enquirer" would be in the oval office at all, or the head of the "national enquirer" would be in the oval office with james comey, and donald trump would say, this guy knows more than you do. this strange new world that donald trump introduced to washington when he came to office, remember the guy, the former president was never elected to office. he never served in the military. the first one in our nation's history to neither have participated in either two of those roles. he came from new york city, from real estate, from tabloid life, from reality tv life. the background he brought to the white house was entirely different from the background that past presidents have had, which is why you get into a situation where the head of the "national enquirer," ufos on the cover, ted cruz's dad is linked to the assassination of jfk. this guy is the one in the oval office. andrew weissmann is pointing to something in our google doc. we're getting this information updated in realtime, via a document. that's why sometimes it can seem disjointed. >> you
the idea that the head of the "national enquirer" would be in the oval office at all, or the head of the "national enquirer" would be in the oval office with james comey, and donald trump would say, this guy knows more than you do. this strange new world that donald trump introduced to washington when he came to office, remember the guy, the former president was never elected to office. he never served in the military. the first one in our nation's history to neither have...
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say what you will about the national enquirer, the reach of this publication? it's on supermarket shelves in every walmart in every airport, and that was being weapon iced to help get donald trump elected and that is what alvin bragg is talking about in this indictment. i think that is what people pass over when we talk about falsified business records. fundamentally, this was an agreement to influence the election and it worked. >> again, it's important, when you work for campaigns, earned media, as they say, magazine covers on a grocery store shelf, that is gold to people. the visuals of what they are seeing. we learned of the judge will allow the national enquirer covers to be admissible in court. we showed a few, including the one about hillary clinton dying. are there some you think are important for people to see or are there some that you think would particularly make the point? >> it's the pattern. look for what this publication was publishing when i first joined in 2014, when it was tom cruise , that mix of celebrity content , and it's a look at how th
say what you will about the national enquirer, the reach of this publication? it's on supermarket shelves in every walmart in every airport, and that was being weapon iced to help get donald trump elected and that is what alvin bragg is talking about in this indictment. i think that is what people pass over when we talk about falsified business records. fundamentally, this was an agreement to influence the election and it worked. >> again, it's important, when you work for campaigns,...
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at the heart of the argument is the national enquirer tabloid magazine. we'll hear live from the one time executive editor of that media empire injust a moment. lachlan cartwright was in the room for many key meetings. first, the story so far... not the slogan of a government health campaign, concerned about the spread of germs, but, it's alleged, the scheme this of an american tabloid concerned about the spread of negative stories on donald trump. during donald trump's first run at the white house, the national enquirer paid large sums of money to buy stories and then bury them, while running negative stories about his opponents, it is claimed. it has all been laid bare in the trump trial in new york. the donald had been accused of nodding off during thejury selection process, but he would have been wide awake for the testimony of the enquirer�*s publisher, david pecker. trump's formerfriend, who has been granted immunity to testify against him. it was an agreement among friends, mr pecker told the court, including trump's personal lawyer, michael cohe
at the heart of the argument is the national enquirer tabloid magazine. we'll hear live from the one time executive editor of that media empire injust a moment. lachlan cartwright was in the room for many key meetings. first, the story so far... not the slogan of a government health campaign, concerned about the spread of germs, but, it's alleged, the scheme this of an american tabloid concerned about the spread of negative stories on donald trump. during donald trump's first run at the white...
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questions in the prosecutors was the national enquirer would get a tip. those are donald trump, david pecker would be alerted. he'd call michael cohen and asked michael cohen what to do. and michael cohen according to david pecker and will hear the cross-examine and what michael cohen has to say about this. but he would say well, let me call the boss and see what he wants to do with the karen mcdougal story with it? other stories. >> what do you want to do about this? >> ironically, this is the kind of scandal that the national enquirer, one of exposed in almost any other scenario. the enquirer had a history for all its flaws, for all of its faults of reporting on politicians on both sides of the aisle. for exposing scandals and controversies and polit politicians. >> words they didn't in this. >> example but instead pecker because he was go ahead, are long relationship with trump and saw a benefit to that enquirer decided to pick a horse, right aside to get in line with trump and create a pro-trump propaganda outlet, which is really what the enquirer was
questions in the prosecutors was the national enquirer would get a tip. those are donald trump, david pecker would be alerted. he'd call michael cohen and asked michael cohen what to do. and michael cohen according to david pecker and will hear the cross-examine and what michael cohen has to say about this. but he would say well, let me call the boss and see what he wants to do with the karen mcdougal story with it? other stories. >> what do you want to do about this? >> ironically,...
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and i understand the reasons for that we look at this many people may not realize the enquirer had their first publication like 1925 or 26, there was an appetite for the information whether it was truthful or not, having david pecker, though, sit up there and have that symbiotic relationship with trump. here across from him and spilling the t must have been quite a moment. >> well, is under oath. he has to write, but i would say i mean, i'm glad you brought that up because i do hope that people are not taking away from this, that this is how journalism work right? we in the regular media are not entering into schemes like this. we do not take payment, no publication. i've ever worked with worked for has ever function this way. i think a lot of people are very cynical about the media and they do believe that we are promoting candidates or trying to put down their rivals or making stuff up. i mean, you say substantiated, these were made up stories made up at a pretty nice about anyway, notice. i'm not being so nice because i do think it affects how everybody perceives the media. and i hope
and i understand the reasons for that we look at this many people may not realize the enquirer had their first publication like 1925 or 26, there was an appetite for the information whether it was truthful or not, having david pecker, though, sit up there and have that symbiotic relationship with trump. here across from him and spilling the t must have been quite a moment. >> well, is under oath. he has to write, but i would say i mean, i'm glad you brought that up because i do hope that...