truth. let s bring in cnn investigative correspondent drew griffin with more. drew, good evening to you. so what s the latest in this stormy daniels saga, or should i use the david denison? or what s on social media now, president denison? for those of you who don t know, peggy peterson is stormy daniels and david denison is donald trump. i want to correct one thing, don. when you say we don t know what happened, we do know what happened through stormy daniels in this lawsuit and her attorney. she said yes, she had an intimate relationship with donald trump beginning in 2006 at lake tahoe and lasting well into 2007. we also know that prior to the election, she was looking to
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. the restraining order issued by
the restraining order issued by an arbitrator in a private arbitration company out in california, which actually was put in place or executed to try to stop this lawsuit from being even filed. it didn t involve anybody from stormy daniels side. it was basically a judge, retired judge, who would make this order and try to prevent this lawsuit from ever being filed. that s why stormy daniels, stephanie clifford s attorney, says it s ridiculous. there was no hearing and stormy daniels and attorneys didn t even know about it. it s very hard to think that that would be executed in any way. drew griffin, appreciate your reporting. thank you, sir. i want to bring in analyst chief political analyst gloria borger, and gloria, i want to start with you. you, too, have spoken to stormy daniels attorney.
tell her store. she was looking to tell the story of this relationship two 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
michael cohen people are also 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. especially someone who is running for president and his personal attorney broke the law, that is indeed a big question. 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 david denison. but you re right, don, the large story here is not about whether a porn star was involved in the