request for all communication with david pecker who owns the national inquirer and is a close personal friend of the president. as well as dylan howard, the chief content officer. i think investigators are getting into this pattern where more than a few folks who have negative information on president trump ahead of the election seemed not to have the stories told. reporter: in a statement the national inquirer s owners write ami categorically denies that donald trump or michael cohen had anything to do with the decision not to pursue a story it determined was not credibility. the suggestion that mr. pecker had ever used company funds to shut down this or any investigation is not true. former playboy model karen mcdoogl accuses the national inquirer doing the same thing with her affair with trump paying her $150,000 for the rights to the details and giving her a short-lived fitness
people have rightly pointed to the potential for blackmail. now we have not one, but two payoffs. who else is out there that may be holding something out there. there are both in stormy daniels case as well as in karen s case real questions about campaign finance violations given the timing of the payoffs. we still have yet to hear and i m sure when the 60 minutes interviews airs, what s behind the threat and when did that happen and who did that and what that might mean. i think this is not going away any time soon. i think there are a number of issues at play here that we need to still see unfold and see what the con clougs of those issues are. to all those issues, what is the proof. mya, thank you. terrific column. thank you. inside the manhunt for the man suspect ed of detonate bomb around austin, texas.
the latest coming from karen mcdoog l. she s the play mate suing the publisher for the right to break her silence on the affair with trump. it comes as a judge said that a former apprentice contestant could move forward with her case. he denied had her claims, but he could still find himself forced into a deposition in that case. then you have stormy daniels lawyer confirming this photo of her taken during a lie detector test that found her to be truthful when she answered questions about her alleged affair with trump. the white house, president trump s lawyers and trump have all denied any claims of him having affairs with the women. i i want to bring in mya harris, a former senior policy adviser on the hillary clinton campaign.