Thank you so much for tuning in. I wish you all a good night. My friend ari is next. And remember, you can watch the night cap most fridays and saturdays. 11 00 p. M. Eastern right here on msnbc. But for now, im signing off. From all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. Ill see you at the end of monday. Hello and welcome to our special. New york versus donald trump. Im ari and we have break downs on this entire rivetting week of testimony including fridays emotional moments for a long time trump aid open hicks on the stand. This really showed how prosecutors are proving up this case. Putting forward Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougals lawyer up. And a very damning story that will come from Michael Cohen. Corroborating all of that, with what we have told you about. The receipts, the checks, the contracts. And then, ending this week with a rare view inside Donald Trumps uppermost senior aides and brain trusts. Hope hicks taking the stand friday an
media entity that controls the inquirer has been on this train for a long time. he ran a of magazine called trump style, a whole magazine about trump and style and trump stylishness. as long ago as 2010, the associated press reports recent david pecker touted a possible donald trump presidency. maybe he loves donald trump. that is no crime. but if that s what it is, it is a very deep and long-standing love. west reports during the 2016 campaign, picker allowed donald trump to personally direct and select stories like these ones, hillary six months to live and her full medical file for the cover. trump got to dictate those. the wall street journal also in a remarkable series of reporting over months pieced together the finances behind picker and his company buying up rights to damaging stories about donald trump s sex life so they would be kept quiet before the
campaign. it has turned into criminal consequences with guilty pleas from trump lawyer michael cohen this week. he pled guilty to making illegal payments to influence the campaign at the direction of donald trump and in conjunction with david pecker and picker s company american media. the criminal information in cohen s case says as early as the summer of 2015, picker coordinated with cohen and with one or more members of the donald trump campaign. to develop a system in which picker and the national enquirer would assist the campaign in identifying and neutralizing negative stories about trump. there s all sorts of interesting questions whether or not american media might get in trouble now that they ve been named as a participant in the mut criminal conspiracy. questions about the trump organization, the trump business having been involved, people on the trump campaign having been involved in that scheme, the president directly described by cohen under oath in court as directing and
office at the invitation of david pecker from american media. what the heck is the national enquirer doing promoting the interests of saudi arabia and its crown prince to unsuspecting walmart shoppers all over america and something they must have lost a gazillion dollars. what does that have to do with them getting saudi interests into the oval office to meet with the president? again, once are you cooperating with federal prosecutors you don t pick and across what it is you re cooperating about. it s everything. and now, tonight, the associated press has just reported that at the national enquirer turns out they kept all their best stuff including all their best trump stuff locked up in a safe that everybody knew about. that story has just broken. we ve got the reporter who broke it next. best time to buy. you ready for this, junior? yeah, i think i can handle it. no pressure. .that s just my favorite boat.