company acquires rights to story for $150,000. september 30th, 2016, pecker signs an agreement to sell cohen the rights to the story for $125,000. early october 2016, pecker nixes deal prior to payment. then november 4th, same year, wall street journal publishes the first story on that deal. there s a look at the time line. our team of legal experts standing by, harry litman former u.s. attorney, danny cevallos, msnbc legal analyst who was outside that new york city courtroom wednesday where cohen was sentenced. harry, let me start with you. the president still appears to be leaning on essentially his defense appears to be that he didn t know. does that hold water, harry? no, it s like a kol lan der it laeks to muceaks so much. what he s saying is the lawyer told me it was okay. this is the kind of thing that
sensation reporter: friday intouch magazine published the transcript of a 2011 interview with daniels dishing on the tawdry details of her alleged sexual encounter with donald trump. according to the associated press the tabloid never published it because donald trump s personal lawyer threatened to sue. neither trump nor his lawyer, michael cohen, have responded to requests for comment. several news outlets say a few weeks before the 2016 election, daniels told them she wanted to talk about her relationship with trump. and then suddenly she didn t. the wall street journal also reports that s around the time cohen formed a shell company to pay the porn star $130,000 in exchange for her silence. cnn has obtained documents that show cohen did set up at least two corporations in delaware around that time, including one on september 30th, 2016, called resolution consultants llc. those records show he dissolved
have responded to cnn s request for comment. journalists at several news outlets say just a few weeks before the 2016 election, daniels said she wanted to talk about her relationship with trump and then suddenly she didn t. the wall street journal also reports that s around the time cohen formed a shell company to pay the porn star $130,000 in exchange for her silence. cnn has obtained documents that show cohen did set up at least two corporations in delaware around that time, including one on september 30th, 2016, called resolution consultants llc. those records show he dissolved in october 17th, the say day and that s the company the journal says cohen used to pay daniels hush money through a series of fake names and legal contracts. the white house avoiding answering questions about it friday night on cnn. look, these matters were asked about and answered pretty extensively during the campaign. i certainly don t have anything
quiet about the alleged encounter. brian todd was the latest details on this. reporter: this nondescript office building in delaware is the headquarters of a company reportedly used to hide an alleged $130,000 payment are from donald trump s lawyer to the porn star stormy daniels all designed to cover up an alleged sexual affair. the wall street journal and other news outlets say just weeks before the election, actress told reporters she had a relationship with trump after let ming him in 2006. daniels spoke to journalists at several news outlets about telling her story but they say she suddenly went silent. the journal says at the same time, trump s lawyer arranged the payment to stop her from talking. now documents obtained by cnn and first reported by the journal show michael cohen, trump s long time lawyer set up at least two corporations in delaware around that time including one called resolution consultants llc september 30th,
daniels spoke to journalists about telling them her story but suddenly went silent. the wall street said at the same time trumps laura ranged the payment to stomp her from talking. and first reported by the journal showed michael cohen his long time lawyer set up two corporations in delaware around that time. including one called resolution consultants llc on september 30th, 2016. records show he dissolved it a few weeks later. on october 17th, 2016. and the same day incorporated a new entity central consultants llc. journal says cohen used that company to make the payoff using a series of supseudonyms that hp create documents. why would he chose delaware? say the state has few disclosure requirements. gives you a way of moving