inc., chairman, david pecker, to silence two women who claimed they had affairs with trump. federal prosecutors, according to the journal had enough evidence to outline trump s role without naming him in an indictment of michael cohen. trump reportedly asked pecker to kill a story involving playboy model karen mcdougal. she claims to have had a long-running affair with trump. maybe if he weren t married, i wouldn t have regret because he treated me very viend. he was respectful very kind. he was respectful. it was a good relationship. it i known at the time there were supposedly all these other women, no, i wouldn t have been in the relationship. reporter: trump was involved in or briefed on nearly every step of the agreements, according to the journal. he directed deals and phone calls and meetings with his self-described fixer michael cohen and others. obviously very loyal and very dedicated to mr. trump. reporter: cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts in augu
trump s direction that he facilitated the secret payments. prosecutors said cohen coordinated with one or more members of the campaign. and this secret recording obtained by senior citizen n july. i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info. regarding our friend david, you know, so that i m going to do that right away. give it to me i ve spoken to alan about how to set it up with what are we going do funding yes. and it s all the stuff, all the stuff. because here you never know where that company, never know maybe he gets hit correct. i m all over that. and i spoke to alan about it. when it comes time for the financing which will be what financing? we ll have to pay for pay cash no, no, no, no. reporter: cohen and trump discussing a payment to mcdougal. cnn has reported that trump was also personally involved in
trump directed cohen to get it done. and and trump was not president, you can guarantee that prosecutors would likely charge someone who had committed this because, you know, the rule of law should apply to everyone, and we don t there s a reason we have campaign finance laws in the first place, which is to prevent people from just spending hundreds of thousands of dollars or telling their friends to do so to help a campaign that is just and without disclosure, then no one knows exactly who is influencing our elections. so michael, of course, i want you to weigh in on this. does this get to the point from your perspective, does it get to a point of charging potentially a form president? where does this go? campaign finance violations aren t often the priority for the department of justice in moving forward. what happens is it s the cover-up or the attempt to cover up what went on that leads to criminal charges or a bigger
a weekend that s support to represent the virtues of world peace. a report says donald trump not only knew about hush-money payments to two women but was directly involved in the payments and process to get the stories killed. my client is tired of being called a liar. with each passing month we get closer and closer to judgment day. this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. good saturday to you. president trump is in parsz right now in paris right now as world leaders commemorate 100 years since the end of world war ii. he touched town and tweeted slamming the french president for calling for a giant eu army to handle threats from china and russia. they were all friends when they meet a while ago. president trump declaring cooperation between the countries saying they have much in common. meanwhile, the wall street
silencing daniels who also claims to have had a sexual encounter with trump. my attorney and i are committed to making sure that everyone finds out the truth and the facts of what happened. and i give my word that we will not rest until that happens. reporter: the new details of trump s intimate involvement clashing with previous denials from the president and the white house. mr. president, did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? no. then why did michael cohen make this if there was no allegation you have to ask michael cohen. the president has denied the allegations. and i don t have anything else further to ad o that front. reporter: to add on that front. reporter: a source says that cohen was just doing his job and protecting his client. and stormy daniels lawyer reacted that all of this is just further vindication that he and his client were right, all of this happening as cohen is meeting with various investigators and awaits the sentenci