A former american president and his fixer and a big time ally of his in the tabloid media. It was a plan crafted to cast then candidate donald trump in a positive light in the allimportant tabloids. Using stories that were favorable to him and silencing ones that werent and smearing everybody that got in the way. The witness on the stand today on the Hush Money Trial, details exactly how this scheme worked on a daytoday basis. David pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer described a relationship with donald trump that dated back to the late 1980s and noted that trump was one the first people to call him and congratulate him when he bought the National Enquirer back in 1999. So tlir friendship was already long standing by the time donald trump decided so to run for president. The questioning today was the details an the operational aspects of that explicit agreement between trump, his lawyer Michael Cohen, and david pecker. And what they did to boost trumps campaign. And
Congress, eight and half months writing this book, i hope we check it out and get it. That is all the time we have tonight. Im Jason Chaffetz and for laura ingraham. Ill be back tomorrow night. Again, my favorite person at fox news, Shannon Bream is up next. Shannon, take it away. Shannon not just because i cant wait to get my hands on your part. Is going to be great. Thank you, jason. We begin with a Fox News Alert with the president trailing a crowd of West Virginia asking, wears a collusion, as he says investigators continue to search for something thats never happens. But there was was a Major Development survey in a Special Counsels investigation. It appears President Trumps former attorney going from the white house to the big house. Michael cohen reaching a deal with the prosecutors that does include paul. My jail time. Paul manafort convicted on eight counts of tax and bank fraud. None of the 18 connected to President Trump or his campaign. Stick around as our panel of legal ex
they are millionaires. they are making millions of dollars a year, and yet, they are relying on the donations of hard-working americans to pay their legal bills. whether or not it s legal, yes, it may be legal, but it s not fair and it s not right and they should be paying their own legal bills in this situation. okay, want to get in a question about ami and jeff bezos, of course. federal prosecutors looking into whether the national enquirer violated its nonprosecution deal in the michael cohen deal. ami said they believe they acted lawfully in the reporting of the story, but this conduct by definition, does this conduct fit into extortion? yes. yes. and if there s some proof that they can find that ami actually tried to actually extort or blackmail bezos, then they re going to be found in violation of their immunity deal. and basically, what happened was ami had a deal where they weren t going to be prosecuted as long as they didn t get in legal trouble for three years. but if
and don jr. s pursuit of the tower, which included trips to russia. there s now this question about don jr. just specifically on the narrow grounds of his testimony because, of course, michael cohen pleading guilty to lying to congress, that s not something that s very often charged, we should note. but this is it should be noted that in the transcript of the judiciary senate testimony he says we ve discussed the aguile aguilera family. do you know if they were also discussing a trump tower in moscow? certainly not 16. there s never a definitive end to it. it just died of deal fatigue. trump jr. s testimony according to his lawyer was for it to do different proposals, and that was a different deal than at a michael cohen deal. does that stand? that actually might be true. i mean, the one thing we know for sure is that donald trump really, really wanted to see his name on the moscow skyline. he was pursuing various different plans to build a
congress, eight and half months writing this book, i hope we check it out and get it. that is all the time we have tonight. i m jason chaffetz and for laura ingraham. i ll be back tomorrow night. again, my favorite person at fox news, shannon bream is up next. shannon, take it away. shannon: not just because i can t wait to get my hands on your part. is going to be great. thank you, jason. we begin with a fox news alert with the president trailing a crowd of west virginia asking, wears a collusion, as he says investigators continue to search for something that s never happens. but there was was a major development survey in a special counsel s investigation. it appears president trump s former attorney going from the white house to the big house. michael cohen reaching a deal with the prosecutors that does include paul.my jail time. paul manafort convicted on eight counts of tax and bank fraud. none of the 18 connected to president trump or his campaign. stick around as our panel of