saying, michael cohen is on a new path. it s a reset button to tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may . all the questions about might mike many cohen turn on donald trump, looks like the beginning of that. is does. we saw in the press, a couple months ago, quotes from friends. attributed to, people close to michael cohen saying he wants his legal fees paid, willing to talk to mueller. what seemed like an effort to strongarm the president of the united states through the media. a fraught vstrategy but we re beginning to see the fruit of that materialize. back to the 30,000 foot perspective. the cash, no cash thing seems terrain the white house thinks is favorable. it s weeds, difficult to navigate and seems irrelevant. extending to a broader perspective you see a president who denied through a spokesperson the president says he nerve her a relationship with mcdougal. that s flat out wrong. solidifying the fake news
reporter: hi, jake. here s what he says. he says i was instructed not to criticize president trump s former housekeeper due to a prior relationship she had with president trump which produced a child. did allies of president trump engage in a pattern of payoffs to protect him? that s what several media outlets and new york suggest pointing to a deal that national enquirer parent company instructed a doorman to be paid $30,000 for a story of an unproven rumor about trump. peddling a story of an alleged affair with an employee with whom he fared a daughter. there s nothing to indicate that claim is true. the new yorker s reports ami bought the story in late 2015 and then buried it. it is about the most powerful people in the country having the ability to silence and change the news narrative at will. i think that the public should know that. reporter: he said 30 moneys
journisticly? one of the things i established is its very nonpartisan. harvey weinstein, i broke that story and along with a group of other brave reporters. that was a major democratic force to be reckoned with. he was a big donor and hillary clinton supporter and what we see in what s being exposed about this pattern of payments allegedly on behalf of the president is the same actors involved dillon howard, the national inquirer. these were all individuals working to suppress stories on behalf of harvey weinstein. we report that lanney davis a democratic operative and close clinton confidant and bois schiller were involved in ami s and the national inquirer s effort to shut down this story that we re reporting on today. so what this is about is systems, chris. this is about the most powerful people in the country having the ability to silence and change the news narrative at will.
thousands to just before the election for details of alleged affair with prmp. this is about the most powerful people in the country having the ability to silence and change the news narrative at will and i think that the public should know that. reporter: mcdougall told anderson cooper her attorney approached ami. did you know that your attorney was going to go to ami which is the parent company owning national enquirer and other magazines? he said ami. i didn t know what ami was to be honest. we have a company and probably want to hear your story. so what was the thought of selling the story in your mind? to get my truth out there. i wasn t looking for money clearly but when he said it s worth many millions, i m like you know? reporter: the white house has denied the affair and mcdougall sued ami to be released from the agreement. and now cnn reporting that the warrant of the fbi raid of
the answer seems to be two right now, white house counsel ty cobb and outside attorney jay sekulow. over the weekend the president tweeted it s much ado about nothing. quote, many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the russia case. don t believe the fake news narrative that it s hard to find a lawyer that wants to take this on. fame and fortune will never be turned down by a lawyer though some are conflicted. problem is that a new lawyer or law firm will take months to get up to speed if for no other reason they can bill more, which is unfair to our great country, and i m very happy with my existing team. besides there was no collusion with russia except by crooked hillary and the dems. there s so many parenthetical phrases in that. it was a big run-on sentence. what does it say that he appears to be having trouble finding some of the big firms are saying we have a conflict because people in our firm are representing other people in the russia investigation. this