is safe. they re pleased with what he s doing on immigration and other areas of law enforcement. and even as the president continues to disparage his attorney general on twitter, the policies that jeff session sess pursuing have made his hold on to that position. it will be interesting to see how it all mays out. thank you so much. still ahead, sinclair broadcast groups responds after a controversial promo goes viral. and now the president is weighing in on it, as well. and later, president trump s personal attorney michael cohen makes a new move to silence adult film star stormy daniels.
not but compromising photographs. these scandals when you have pictures are just much more daunting than when you don t have pictures and the original access hollywood tape, much of it had donald trump s disembodied voice. it was offensive but in the way the media ecosystem works, if you have someone who is an identifiable person who is on television making the claim over and over again, who s sympathetic, who maybe has supporting documentation or photographs, that s a much more dangerous scandal than other kinds of scandals in this area and i ll say this, steve bannon said to michael wolff, whether true or not, he said there were hundreds of payoffs that he had heard about to women who donald trump had affairs with. if stormy daniels can defy a gag order, can defy a hush settlement and she comes forward, does that set a precedent for other women coming forward? this could become an avalanche if that does work in that way. mika, michael cohen admitted
about one lie after another lie, nobody paid attention and suddenly monica lewinsky comes up and everybody wants to talk about monica lewinsky and you re still going wait, why does that draw the focus? but the exchange of missile technology so one of bill clinton s contributors could make millions of dollars doesn t matter. and that s what s been different about this that there are so many issues than this white house. there s potential war with north korea. there s the tariffs, the russia investigation. stormy daniels was way down on the list. we haven t really covered the stormy daniels story with great fervor. i mean, this we ve kind of at this point have to. but going to what elizabeth just said, yesterday, huge news again on tariffs. and on the huge news on the mueller investigation.
white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said yesterday an arbitration case against daniels had been won but did not offer details. she also said as far as she s aware mr. trump did not know his lawyer paid daniels $130,000 to ensure her silence. reporter: did the president approve of the payment that was made in october of 2016 by his long-time lawyer and adviser michael cohen? look, the president has addressed these directly and made very well clear that none of these allegations are true. this case has already been won in arbitration and anything beyond that i would refer you to the outside counsel? reporter: did he know about the payment. not that i m aware of. reporter: you said there s arbitration that s already been won. by whom and when? by the president s person attorneys and for details on that i would refer you to them. it s absolutely bongubogus,
i do know, though, that you can just look at the john edwards case. you can also look at basic federal elections laws. you can see that $130,000 payment. you can see a lot of questions surrounding whether the president was a part of the corporation. you can a lot of questions that are out there, and just look at it legally and say morality aside, this is a problem. yeah, and it s gone from much more than a fascination to something that could involve campaign finance law because it took place during the presidential campaign was that $130,000 some kind of an in kind donation. nbc news has learned that trump attorney michael cohen is trying to silence stormy daniels from speaking about her quote intimate relationship with donald trump. cohen got a secret temporary restraining order against daniels just over a week ago from a private arbitrator.