conspiracy, for how the tabloid could help suppress and cover up salacious stories about donald trump and women. joining us now from "the washington post," the white house bureau chief phil rucker, joan winebanks, msnbc legal analyst and sporter of brilliant pins and with me at this table, katy tur plus, not quite one but close to another one who, of course, covered the trump campaign and reverend al sharpton, the host of "politics nation" and president of the national action network and emily jane fox, senior reporter with "vanity fair" and the person to whom michael cohen once said he'd take a bullet for donald trump. phil rucker, you say along with your colleague that trump's falsehoods on the hush money payments are coming home to roost. and that people around the president are basically freaking out over what might come next. please tell us more. >> yeah, john, so there's a lot of concern within the