election, she was looking to tell the story of this relationship to media outlets, and that is when michael cohen, trump s attorney, found out about it and aggressively came after her, she says, aggressively sought to silence miss clifford. this is according to this lawsuit. and forced her, if you believe ms. daniels and her attorney, into signing this settlement agreement in which she was paid $130,000, supposedly to keep quiet, not say anything, not produce any documents, and her attorney today said if you believe donald trump didn t know all of this was happening, think again. here s what he said. the suggestion that you would have an experienced, educated attorney like mr. cohen who would run off half-cocked without any knowledge of his client, that he would negotiate and draft a detailed agreement that included his client as a party, that he would engage in weeks of negotiation, that he
would reach agreement, that he would then send $130,000 in connection with that agreement. that he would then later institute an arbitration proceeding without knowledge of his client. all of this to those of us that practice under the law as attorneys, it s ludicrous. don? go ahead. did you want to respond to that? i was going to tell you that this agreement, this settlement agreement, which was worked out 11 days before the election now, goes into great detail, it s more than a dozen pages long, it itemizes just about everything stormy daniels cannot say, the information that she cannot release, and this was all done just before the election just as stormy daniels was going to tell her story about her relationship with donald trump. 11 days. and you ve obtained the restraining order, i understand, issued against stormy daniels. yeah.
saying, look, the president didn t know about this. it s hard to believe that 11 days before the election, the president did not know what his close friend and personal attorney was doing on his behalf. and if the president or his attorney did, indeed, laura, break the law here, that is really the important question. some people may not care about a tawdry affair with a porn star. that s their business. others will. but if someone, especially someone who s running for president and his personal attorney broke the law, that is indeed the big question. that s the scope here. it s huge here. and remember, not only did sarah huckabee sanders expose the arbitration happening in court, she also confirmed for the first time that david denison was donald trump, and he was actually a party to all this. that s why it s trending about president denison. but you re right, don, the large issue here is not about the salacious details, be it s not
two questions, chris. i m ready. we keep hearing the questions surrounding stormy daniels have been asked and answered. not so. did sarah sanders make a grave error here by pointing out the arbitration today? yes. the question is, she was clearly prepped for it. she expected stormy daniels questions given how much it s been in the news, given the lawsuit that stormy daniels filed on tuesday night. she was prepped for it. this was clearly a talking point to push back on it and try to put it behind you know, well, it s already done with, nothing, old news. that didn t work. whoever gave her that advice, or if that was her own thought, that didn t work and i think suggests that the fact that michael cohen was pursuing this approach as recently as february 27th, why? what is the story? he has said it s not true. donald trump says he never knew anything about it. sarah huckabee-sanders said against today, it s not true.
they also said the president went so far as to say the white house counsel don mcgahn should deny trump asked him to fire mueller. mcgahn reportedly had to remind the president that yes, he did just that. we also have breaking news on the story of the president and the porn star. a phrase i never thought i would actually say until this white house. stormy daniels attorney claims she was threatened today by michael cohen, trump s long-time attorney, in an attempt to keep her quiet. which just makes you wonder what else she might know here. that s after the white house tried again and again today to dance around the questions about this tawdry mess, and whether the president knew about the $130,000 check his lawyer wrote. sarah sanders defaulting to what s becoming the favorite response of this white house. quote, not that i m aware of. sarah, you said repeatedly that we ve addressed our feelings on that situation, in