a lot of sort of red flags pointing to the story that he is trying to tell. of course ami itself is saying that they were not able to verify that there was any truth to the story in the statement that they released earlier today. they were very emphatic they did not find this to be a a credible story and that swhy theykilled it and run it. but the significant through line is this mnc.o., this patte of trump and people in his orbit with these potentially different story, true or or not, and paying them off. if three thrmake a pattern, have three. all of them sort of different versions of agreements and payoffs and this effort to try to keep them quiet, but all of them are now wanting to speak out and they all say that they were paid so that they wouldn t tell their stories leading up to
a child. so now we are learning from the doorman some details about what he was allegedly trying to claim in his interview with ami, and we have some interesting reporting from my colleague, a little more about just the agreement and what the ramifications for this doorman are. a source in touch with both ami and this doorman says according to the agreement, he can speak about the story itself. so the story being that donald trump had this love child, but what he cannot do is speak about the agreement with ami and any money that he may have received as a part of that agreement. now, i think we really need to be emphatic here that cnn has not verified whether there is any truth to the story that this doorman was trying to sell and also worth noting that ronan farrell, who wrote the article has called this story salacious and unconfirmed.
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about it. it s the southern district. it s not mueller. okay. so with that said, caroline, turning to you, he is absolutely correct, it s sdny who conducted the raid. this could end up being they want to like at maybe his bean accounts. he s absolutely correct, too, in saying it could be nothing or, as we discussed before, it could be more than that. it absolutely could be more than that. i don t think the sdny is in the practice of taking on small crimes like federal election law violations. so i think what s really interesting and what people haven t been reporting on is that michael avenatti went on anderson cooper last night and said for certain there will be more raids. he then went on to praise the sdny for the work they ve done in this case. i think it s clear we don t know the full extent of this story.
i think the issue with the pattern and practice with this new $30,000 payment, it seems pretty clear there was an systemic pattern and practice among team trump to pay off stories that were unfavorable to them. now, catch and kill is not if and of itself illegal, brook, but the fact is ami, they didn t publish the stories because they weren t credible. brook, when has credibility ever been a hallmark of the national enquirer s reporting policies and procedures? the whole reason they didn t print was story was to protect the president. go ahead, dana. i m pretty confident that the alien babies that the national inquir inquirer has reported. that s not real? yeah that, has not happened. solomon, because of your