least by michael cohen. shera bechard is someone a lot of people want to talk to on the record. she is locked under an nda. but presumably if broidy s walking away from that she would be able to tell her story. yeah, that s true. i don t know what legal advice her lawyers will give her bup she certainly may have a lot more information she could talk about relating to elliott broidy and their relationship and could also settle some of the speculation that you might be talking about, that you were talking about earlier. i just want to know the truth. that s all. michael rothfeld, thanks for being with me tonight. thanks for having me. ahead, the key senators refusing to 2k3wgive a straight answer on roe v. wade. why republicans continue to try to dodge the central abortion question ahead of the president s nomination of a supreme court justice, next. thir like a beach trip,
performer has just gotten even weirder. no, it s not the one you re thinking of. back in april the wall street journal reported that this guy, elliott broidy, who was at the time the deputy finance chair of the rnc, had agreed in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million, not a small amount of money, to a former playboy playmate named shera bechard. in a statement broidy said, i acknowledge i had a consensual relationship way playboy playmate. at the end of our relationship this woman shared with me she was pregnant. she alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy and i offered her financial help during this difficult period. more on that stage stramt in a moment. broidy stepped down from his post at the rnc. the story did not go way in large part because there are some striking similarities between the story of elliott broidy the hush money agreement with the playboy playmate in his own words and donald trump s agreement with the former adult actress stormy daniels. e
template in both agreements. also, both women happen to have been represented by the same lawyer, akeith davidson, which is also extremely weird. similarities prompted investigation of what s going on here. now there s a new twist. the wall street journal reported yesterday that broidy has decided to stop the hush money payments after only two of a promised eight installments of $200,000 each. joining me now to explain what is going on with broidy is the co-author of that story, wall street journal investigative reporter michael rothfeld. all right, michael, why is elliott broidy stopping his payments to shera bechard? well, basically, because the agreement has become public and he believes that someone on her side breached the agreement. he s said that keith davidson, who represented her in the deal you just alluded to told michael avenatti, the lawyer current lawyer for stormy daniels about this deal. avenatti tweeted an allusion to the agreement the night before
claims that she was harassed and black s. mailed by donald trump. court papers, when we did some research on her, described her as a vexatious litigant who has been bombarding the federal courts with a number of different filings and lawsuits. so right now it s kind of difficult to tell if this is if this will be of any help, or what prosecutors are interested in at this point. so two things. one, just to be clear, the $62,500 that was a wire transfer, we think that comes from broidy in to cohen as payment to cohen or as part of the arrangement for him to then transfer it to shir beshar, the woman who allegedly broidy had an affair with? yeah, the latter would be correct. and that s essentially what we think. we haven t been able to get an
agreement. they also dealt with each other on the karen mcdougal agreement. she was the playmate who had a $150,000 hush payment from the parent of the national enquirer that was both in 2016. so when bechard came to davidson, he called cohen because he knew cohen might know broidy and cohen was like yeah, i know him. and as we reported, cohen called up broidy and said hey, it s your lucky day, you have a big problem, there s a former playmate who says got her pregnant and i can help you fix it. that s how it went down. cohen was paid $250,000. and you were asking an earlier guest about the $62,500 payment. that was a quarter of cohen s fee that went to him. the $200,000 payment were eight installments that were paid to bechard. so he s now cutting off smera bechard has gotten a new lawyer. keith davidson has been sued by one of his former clients in stormy daniels for his representation.