the federal judge, that the agent concluded about the calls. and they re right in the middle of all the calls. in other words, cohen is calling trump and hicks and then david at the american media company, the company that owned the inquirer, going back and forth with the opposing attorney representing stormy daniels. so it is very hard to see anything but the president being involved. so remember when the president said this on, aboard air force one? watch this. bunk the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? no, no. you have to ask michael cohen. michael is my attorney and you ll have to ask michael cohen. do you know where he got the money? i don t know. okay. so here s the thing. court filings show that he spoke to donald trump at least twice
winter. talk us through the headlines this morning, particularly with david pecker, this immunity deal and what prosecutors think he knows. hallie, it is a great question. this is specific to count 7 that michael cohen pled guilty to on tuesday. basically, the american media company was involved. according to the court filings, and what michael cohen said in court, they were involved in a payment to karen mcdougal, who says she had an affair with the president of the united states. the president has denied that affair. however, what was set up here was to pay her for her story. then kill the story, in other words, not publish the story. this is all part of count 7. basically, if you re federal prosecutors moving toward an indictment, our reporting is that they were going to indict michael cohen yesterday. instead, late last week, he decided, and over last weekend, he decided he wanted to come in and perhaps put together a plea. basically, if you re going to set up and have a trial, y