out of mind with everything else. and deep inside i did have a lot of guilt but i still continued. the white house has denied the affair. four days before the election the wall street journal revealed the national inquirer had purchased mcdougal s story only to hide it from the public. a process known as catch and kill. ami a parent company of the national inquirer is run by david pecker. hope hicks told the wall street journal, quote, they had no knowledge of any of this. today s recording seems to undercut those claims. a source familiar with the president s legal strategy tells nbc news that the president was unaware that he was being recorded. and late today cohen s lawyer lanny davis issued the following statement. obviously there is an ongoing investigation and we are sensitive to that. any attempt by any spin cannot change what is on the tape.
were you in love with him? i was, yeah. and do you think he was in love with you? he was, yeah. did donald trump ever say to you that he loved you? all the time. he always told me he loved me. now, president trump s lawyer rudy giuliani was part of the team that decided to waive privilege and mr. an attorney issued a statement saying, when the recording is heard, any attempt at spin cannot change what is on the tape. and a source, as i said, close to his legal team told us a short time ago, this is a classic case of rudy
were you in love with him? i was, yeah. and do you think he was in love with you? he was, yeah. did donald trump ever say to you that he loved you? all the time. he always told me he loved me. now, president trump s lawyer rudy giuliani was part of the team that decided to waive privilege and mr. an attorney issued a statement saying, when the recording is heard, a heard it will not hurt michael cohen.ny any attempt at spin cannot change what is on the tape and a source close to cohen s legal team told us a short time ago, quote, this is a classic case of
sources tonight say michael cohen recorded that conversation with then-candidate donald trump, a conversation about a payment involving the owner of the national enquirer, and a former playboy model, karen mcdougal who claimed she had an affair with the president. the fbi seized the audio from michael cohen, and cohen s attorney now saying when the recording is heard, it will not hurt michael cohen. any attempt at spin cannot change what is on the tape. abc s kyra phillips leading us off. reporter: sources say it came as a surprise to the president himself. word his former lawyer and fixer michael cohen had secretly recorded one of their face-to-face private conversations just two months before the election. sources say the conversation was about money, and former playboy model karen mcdougal who claims she had an affair with the billionaire ten years before. there were real feelings between the two of us. not just myself. not just him. there was a real relationship there.
statements on reports of the tape. here is how it reads. obviously, there is an ongoing investigation and we are sensitive to that. suffice it to say that when the recording is heard, it will not hurt had cohen. any attempt at spin cannot change what is on the tape. how do you interpret that? i think it s very straightforward. if we ve learned anything you want to always record your fixer. obviously michael cohen understood very early on in his relationship with donald trump that this was a man not to be trusted. consequently i don t think there s just two or three minutes of tape recordings, there was obviously, as recorded earlier, probably a novel, if not many volumes of the novel the prosecutors are looking at. so at the end of the day, i m not sure this hurts the president politically but i think no question there could be tremendous legal liability not