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