be facing. all right, robert costa, richard painter, leah wright rig gur, thank you. more on the breaking news this evening on the feud between trump and sessions, what trump is reportedly saying behind his back. ahead, a developing story, trump and michael cohen reportedly tried to buy decades of stories from the national enquirer. a former executive at american media, the parent company of the enquirer, joined the beat exclusively tonight. and ron desantis says his controversial comment was not about race. stay with us on the beat on msnbc. raise their rates because of their first accident. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. their medicare options.e people go to learn about before they re on medicare. come on in. you re turning 65 soon?
some people who would be watching this with a skeptical eye would say why would a tabloid sit on salacious stories when it is in the business of selling salacious stories, why would they have these files on somebody like president trump, as owe outlined, and then sit o them and do nothing with them? it s about collecting favors, more than anything. when you re a media owner and you have a vast variety of publications, ami does, information comes your way. as you collect famous people, you want to keep them in your favor. what better way to do that than killing stories that might embarrass them. how do you benefit from that in the long run, you keep something you can use when you need their help, whether it s in breaking an advertiser that they have a connection with, or more importantly helping another publication that you own that is struggling at the newsstand, and killing a story in the enquirer, and convincing them to go to one of the other publications you have. so to that e
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have in which they mislead someone to think they re going to be on the cover, or in the magazine, and then they kill the story and then the person doesn t come forward. and what bank accounts do they use and so forth? i think that they give immunity to somebody like mr. pecker because they figure that it s worth that trade to get at the more significant targets and to rip out this kind of misconduct in a campaign and perhaps bank fraud and other things that we don t know about. but we have reason to be concerned about and to test as an investigative hypothetical because that s exactly what happened in cohen. and the cohen tape, which says that there are more instances that they want to buy and own themselves has always struck me as a bizarre way to deal with this. because what it does is it identifies, for certain, that they were doing this for trump, whereas otherwise they might have this journalistic nonsense covering it up. stu, one of the things i
fake news in dealing with mainstream national media relied on fake news like the national enquirer. stu, neera and john flanly, thank you so much. ahead, a developing story, roger stone is ready to go to war with bob mueller and kppts to be charged. also, florida s republican gubernatorial nominee, ron desantis says his controversial comment was not about race. michael eric dyson joins us straight ahead. and kanye west is defending president trump, but he s making a big apology. stay with us. ry leader. subaru forester holds its value better than any other vehicle in its class according to alg. better than cr-v. better than rav4. better than rogue. an adventure that starts with a subaru forester will always leave you smiling. get 0% percent apr financing