comcast business. beyond fast. now turning to a beat exclusive tonight that is breaking news. tonight, the chairman of the powerful house oversight committee, elijah cummings, is requesting key documents from a former fox news reporter who covered donald trump s hush money payments to stormy daniels for her now-famous nda. now, information about this reporters alleged story remains secret because of a second nda, one that this reporter signed with fox news. now, tonight, i just obtained chairman cummings request in a formal letter. this is the first time it s been on-air. we re reporting this exclusively on the beat. let me tell you exactly what he s asking for. we just got this. chairman cummings requesting, quote, all documents related to women alleging extra marital
now we turn to a big interview with a first-time guest on the beat, a man at the center of the sdny probe into michael cohen s election crime benefiting the trump campaign. keith davidson was in on the secret payments during the election. davidson negotiating the now-famous ndas between drutrum and those women dealing regularly on cohen and dealing with the national enquirer on other matters under investigation by the sdny prosecutors. that is a lot. mr. davidson has mostly kept his silence during the investigation, but the central role he played has many anchors talking about him. keith davidson, who s the attorney who represented stormy daniels. keith davidson, a los angeles lawyer, who represented karen mcdougal. keith davidson has said that the whole story has not come out yet. a spokesperson for keith davidson. her former attorney, keith davidson. this attorney, keith
informally in that letter to the 81 individuals, just an informal request, just to dot the is and cross the ts, i asked him to put nit it in a proper format. and he s probably interested in whether you know about the motivation behind the hush money payment to stormy daniels. was that, as the trump folks have claimed something they would have done anyone unrelated to the election? i don t really know that, but can i tell you i sat down with the sdny prosecutors who are about the most competent attorneys i ve ever met. and for a time period of three separate meetings, about 20 hours in total. 20 hours with sdny. that s right. so i can put together, you know, through their questioning, you know, where they re going and what evidence they believe is important. and i think that, yes, they are of the opinion that it was politically motivated. because it was, basically, in october to stop fallout from access hollywood ? yeah, i mean, i think it gets
and fox news that occurred right here on the beat this week. we ll bring you that story, coming up. also, prosecutors in new york trying to checkmate donald trump pardons. i will be joined tonight by key insiders from the very prosecutor s office that now has on this story, more power than bob mueller. and later, as if that wasn t enough, i ll be joined by a lawyer who represented stormy daniels and karen mcdougal and was in the middle of the fdny probe into cohen s election crime. this is his first ever interview on msnbc, and we have a lot to get to, especially considering sdny. but we begin with something you actually don t usually see in washington, a unanimous, bipartisan vote. and not on a post office or some ceremony resolution, but actually, a unanimous vote to back up bob mueller s work and ensure his findings are released. speaker pelosi pushing forward with this vote to fortify mueller and put pressure on republicans to show where they stand, so she held, as a strategic mo
received, all documents, committee requests, your appearance for a transcribed interview, are you basically saying that you will now furnish them with these materials and do the interview? yes, we will. well, that itself is news. and what do you think the committee is likely to learn i know you can t talk about the content itself, but do you think it will advance their understanding of this report? i ll read from it in the new yorker, which is spurred a lot of this here. and donald trump recently ousted his communications director, former fox executive. the new yorker has recorded that your reporter, falzone told colleagues that she was told regard to the stormy daniels story during the election, good reporting, kiddo, but rupert wants trump to win, so just let it go. my client is going to tell the committee and congress the truth about what evidence she had and what documents she had and we expect that perhaps the