perhaps to get it published. and the second more confusing thing is why didn't donald trump use it? if he knew about it, this is not someone who parts with his money lightly and he settled for $25 million in the trump university cases. he had this dirt on him, it would be very surprising he didn't use it to oust schneiderman earlier. and the other thing is this went through, according to this attorney, this went through michael cohen. and michael cohen is a self-described fixer. so why wouldn't he have fixed that problem for donald trump? a couple things that don't necessarily add up to me, but as with many things in this story i'm sure we'll have a drip, drip, drip of information and possibly get an answer at some point or possibly not. >> but having written a lot about donald trump and just for those who are not familiar with new york, the trump new york of the '90s, the late '80s and early '90s, when he was really in his heyday. how did he interact with the tabloids? and how extensively did he? >> very extensively. this is someone who used to