been speaking to all day say this is really a sign of the extent to which the president and all his men will go to cover up potential misbehavior. i think why this might be relevant to mueller, is because as he s investigating whether or not the trump campaign and trump associates had any dealings with the russians, he s going to say is there any effort to conceal these efforts the way that michael cohen, the way he allegedly paid off this adult porn star stormy daniels to not reveal her relationship with donald trump, so this is something that the could help mueller build a case and perhaps say that there were some tactics here that were designed to evade scrutiny and also the basic fact that this is blackmailable. i mean michael cohen that s something i want to actually add some reporting on, because jacob weissberg had some early leads on this story and
question that maybe to sort of self-examining for you. why isn t the media making a bigger deal out this? an affair with an adult porn star, i have other things to cover. i have an answer, not a very satisfying one, but news coverage is driven by news and the wall street journal had a great scoop today showing the money trail. but aside from that, what s left to feast on is the taudry part, the things sheetz saying in the interviews. there is a lot going on now. it does seem crazy, i get it, the president having covered up an affair with a porn star on the eve of the election is not the dominant story of the day. it seems crazy and yet here we are. there was a lot hang. our governme a lot happening. the government is about to shut down, and here we are. i looked at the story friday, and decided ton do it. i decided to do it today because someone made the point about someone who could be blackmailed potentially. again, we don t know that he
the attack on african countries would be a broader story. we can report the new york times following up on the initial wall street journal account that trump arranged a $130,000 hush payment. that that woman, stormy daniels also told him about a contract with trump and a secret deal. the white house denies this report of any relationship. trump s lawyer says he once again vehemently denies this. another adult porn star allegedly agreed to a gag order. jessica drake had gone public before the election alleging president trump directly offered to pay her. when we entered the room, he grabbed each of us tightly in a hug and kids each one of us
fourth quarter, but what an amai amazing finish for the vikings. and one final note on liverpool, they traded one of their best players away to barcelona a couple of weeks ago. they showed that they can still beat the best team in the premier league. that was an an unreal match. up next, a new lawyer for donald trump paid a former adult porn star for her silence. plus, a run for office by chelsea manning.
it s just sort of the game he plays. but it s the wall street journal, heidi. are you surprised by the white house calling the journal fake news. rupert murdoch owns that paper. it is a level of vitriol you don t see typically for a rupert murdoch-owned enterprise. the president is upset not only the headline this is particular comment got. when the wall street journal came out of the interview the shift on north korea got a lot of attention but then you have to wonder, why didn t they immediately contest it and wait several days and in the interim you have the wall street journal coming back to this story about the adult porn star, and that was very embarrassing for the president, because you had the president s lawyer, personal lawyer, michael cohen, releasing a screen shot of the woman allegedly under her screen name, denying that this had happened, but the woman, when we