Crossexamining the prosecutions first witness, former Tabloid Executive if david pecker, this is peckers third day on the stand and today for the very first time, he described the deal that he helped broker with Adult Film Star and director Stormy Daniels, a deal that is at the center of this case, the fusion has used packer to set the scene for the jury, introducing them to keep players in the case. How they all fit together in the story right now, the Defense Tactic in its early questioning is part of a strategy two, strategy to argue the David Pecker Is Work Helping Trump during the 2016 election was nothing new who . Nothing unusual. Also notably today, judge juan merchan so far still has declined to issue a ruling from tuesdays Hearing On Whether Trump has violated his gag order, despite the prosecution arguing that this morning that trump continues to violate this order against disparaging members of the jury and the witton this is of course this is four times over the last three
perk has told a pecker was told we reported that perk told the process cute tors that trump knew about the payments to the two women which is very significant because it supports michael cohen s version that he stood up in court and said that trump knew about all this.cohen s version that he stp in court and said that trump knew about all this. the a.p. is saying that there was a safe or safes indicating that there is a lot of information in there. begs a lot of curiosity. what could be in those? he said that david pecker knew and kept in those safes information about that trump tried to bury about his kid, about his ex-wife, about affairs, about melania. he says there is a whole host of information that donald trump wanted to bury over the years and that was kept in that safe. whether or not that is true, all evidence points to that can the case because of course trump has been known throughout his entire life to be very media savvy and
it is print. a very fast declining segment of the media industry. they have been in bad shape financially. they have a very large debt load, they are close to a billion dollars in debt, they just acquired new publications. and they are in the middle of a big refinancing. right now they are actually on the market trying to raise more debt to pay off some of the old dead and roll the ball along. this is what david pecker is really good at, he has been doing this for 20 years now with this company kind of keeping that debt ball rolling. so if he is indicted in the middle of all this, the very likely that the company collapses. it would be very hard for them to continue. danny, how much does it matter what the institution is? we re talking about a media company, or at least that is what it has been. but there are three stools toee president and pecker is one of the legs to that stool. does it matter what that institution is doing? it does matter because this
besides the giluilt, there have are now you two immunity deals. could testimony from david pecker a pecker and allen weisselberg implicate the president further? what else could they know bts president s personal dealings? joining me now is lucas albert and danny cevallos. i want to ask about the institution. we talked a lot about david pecker. tell me about the institution here. the condition it is in. written about the debt burden that it is under. set contrast for us. the bigger company is the american media inc., it encompasses the national inquirer, us magazine, life and style, in touch. they actually own the news stand the stand itself, they own a lot of those as well. so yes, this is neis newstand d,
is it political day ja vigentle gentlem jrktsz deja vu. i ve always said why didn t the national enquirer get the pulitzer prize for edwards and o.j. simpson and all of these things? what the president is talking about today and just as important what he is not talking about after wishing vince mcmahon a happy birthday on twitter. he taked jeattacked jeff sessioe justice department, but what absent, any mention of immunity deals for close friends david pecker and the cfo of the trump organization.