territory through a temporary pier built by the us military but some, aid, work. >> workers say it's still not enough and they appear won't be able to replace the need for more aid convoys overland. >> the us says no american troops set foot in gaza during the operation i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. thanks very much for watching. the news continues next on cnn welcome to this special edition of ac30 60. the karen mcdougal interview. mcdougal is one of the women at the center of former president trump's hush money trial. she says they had an affair starting in 2006 that lasted around ten months. the former president denies an affair with mcdougal or a sexual relationship with stormy daniels karen mcdougal was paid by the company that owns the national enquirer for her story as part of a catch and kill scheme. i spoke to her about it back in 2018. karen mcdougal had never told her story on camera and full until this interview. and she's never done an interview like it says if we could just start at the beginning, how did you meet donald trump i met donald when they were filming the celebrity apprentice at the playboy mansion. >> they were filming there and i was hired as one of deployments to work at the pool party, seen as quite fine actually. and you'd you'd worked for playboy for some time yes. >> i after becoming play mated the year i was required to work so many events with playboy. and that was one of the events that i thought would be fun and i worked at and there are a lot of women there and we just saw had a great time and that's where we met. >> how did you actually meet? >> he said hello, like, he would to anybody and then throughout the night, it was kind of obvious that there was an attraction from his part to me and i just blew it off. >> you can see him looking at you. >> oh, i could see it. and the playboy bunny, she's like the house mama is what we call her. she actually made a comment like, wow this guy's really into you, and that's when i started like paying attention and he was and i smile that it thought it was kind of cute and funny. and then at the end of the nights after striking up many conversations, we exchange, he actually asked me to write his phone my phone number down for for him to q did you wanted to see him again i thought it would be nice to communicate with him and talked to him. >> i actually at that point, didn't consider dating are going out with him, but i think he's an interesting person. he is brilliant and i like smart minds and i think that i was interested in the communication for sure. >> so when was the next communication? >> i believe we talked right away on the phone and i think we talked for about a week on the phone before his next visit to la and that was his birthday, which i think is june 12, what would you call you? he would call me i would call him vice versa. >> so you had his phone number? >> i haven't many of us on numerous, yes. >> do you have his address number for him or did you have to go through somebody else? >> i have as direct phone number. i have quite a few of the direct phone number as i also had bodyguard cversations any other conversation you have with a nice person each other. we had fun, we were funny together. we had a good time. we would talk about anything and everything from what kind of food you like to house your family. he asked me how my family was to politics, to anything like just normal everyday life, conversations. >> so tell me about your first date. >> our first date. >> i was told we were going to go to the beverly hills hotel for dinner. so he had told me that keith has bodyguard was going to pick me up at a certain time and he didn't. and then we were driving over to the beverly hills hotel and keith drove around to the back and he said, we have to get out here because we don't want to walk through the hotel and at that minute, i'm like thinking to myself, are we going to her room because i thought we were having dinner at the beverly hills hotel in the actual restaurant. >> right? well, we did have dinner at the beverly hills hotel, but in his bungalow instead, we had dinner there for a few hours. we talked for a few hours. we had a great time. we're getting to know each other. we're talking about his birthday then as the night ended, we were intimate. >> when you got to the remal hotel and keatts said, we're not going to go through the lobby. we're gonna go was it to a room at the beverly hills hotel or a suite or it was a bundle and back. of the eye, it's the one he said he always data and in fact, every time that i met him, there was a same exact bumble bungalow and he's told that the nicest bundle they had. so i guess that's why he chose that one, but that's that's where we went every time. >> were you concerned when you realize you're not going to go out to dinner, you're actually going to be getting in the bunk load. >> i think that first night i was concerned because i didn't i wasn't expecting to go to a hotel room or bungalow, whatever you wanna call it i actually thought we were going to dinner, so i was a big concern and i think at that moment is when i realized maybe something else is going on, you know, i'm a smart girl. i i probably could have figured it out, but i really wasn't thinking. i think i was so nervous the risk to actually meet with him in general that it kinda just didn't even think it wasn't my thought process at that moment. i was just too nervous to actually meet him. so were you attracted to know is attracted to him. yeah. he sees a nice-looking man and i like just charisma. i think i love good, great posture. he's got great posture he is nice so there's the sex was consensual. it wasn't clear. yes and what happened afterward? after that night, you said you should have ended on a strange now. >> so what what happened after you had been intimate? >> well, after we had been instrument, he he tried to pay me and i actually didn't know how to take that. and he actually tried to hand you money. >> he did he did. and i said, i mean, i just had this look of just i don't even know how to describe the look on my face must have been so sad because i had never been offered money like that before. number one, bring number two, i thought does he think that i'm in this for money or why i'm here tonight? or is this a normal thing? i didn't know but i looked at him and i said that's not me. i'm not that kind of girl. and he said, oh, and he said, you're really special. and i was like, thank you. >> i left. i actually got into the car for kids to take me home and i started crying. i was really sad and it really hurt me but i went back. >> hurt you that he saw you in that way? >> yes. i hurt me that he saw me in that light and he obviously assumed that that's the kind of girl i was maybe because i was a playmate. i don't know. but even though you'd had a night up conversation and days have conversation it hurt you that boiled down in the end to that. it's it hurt me. it did hurt me. i was crying in the backseat of the car. like i said, i got home to my apartment and i cried for a lot. i felt really terrible about myself, let alone way he felt, but i felt terrible about myself and i got over it. >> but did you think you would see him again? i didn't i didn't think i'd see him again, but then when he called i was like bad place in life. i just came out of a bad relationship where i never felt good enough in my relationship and not that that's any excuse. it's not. >> but i think i was so down on myself that when he called and he's so sweet like what everyone sees on tv. >> i didn't see in that man because that man was a very sweet, very respectful, very loving, very kind, and caring like that's the man i saw. >> he's you'd be very charming in person. >> it's very charming, is very sweet. as personality to me was. wow, but i loved it. it was great when do when was the next time you saw him? >> i'd have to look back at my i took journal back in the day and not just for anything in particular, but i told this day i still write down everything i do during the day. >> that's what i do. if i looked at that, i could find out, but i think it was in that same couple of days within a week because he was in town when it came to la, he was usually there between 367 between 3567 days and i usually saw him. >> you gave us the journal that you kept. >> you would write down on days you saw him, you would you wouldn't write how his full name no, i either call them t or dt because if anyone found this i wouldn't want to expose myself or expose him. >> so there's a number of days here. it looks like dozens over the course of time with those small little dt and sometimes they're hard to see i purposely kind of chicken scratch to a lot on there because i know what i'm writing. and like i said, to this day, i still do that with my notes and where i'd where i'm at, who i talked to, whatever i did i did write that down. so did i see him quite a few times, quite a bit absolutely. we spent a lot of time together. >> and did you tell friends about it at the time? >> i did. i told a few friends. i told my sister, i actually told my mother that i knew him and we talked on a regular basis, but i told her that we were just friends and she scolded me a little bit like, i hope it's only friends because, you know, is married and my guess i understand. my sister actually heard him on the phone she was with me one time and she i couldn't hold the phone because i was busy. so she put him on speaker and we were just talking. i mean, i didn't care. it's like she knew anyway. so when you have a relationship so somebody you don't hide it, right? if there's feelings, you don't hide their relationship. >> did he ever asked you to hide it no, he didn't number. >> so there was never a conversation of dough number. in fact, i think once he asked, does your sister no. >> and i said, yeah, she knows he's like all he wasn't afraid to hide it at all. >> and you knew he was married? >> i did. >> did he bring up his wife did you bring it up no. i i never brought up his wife. he did once and that's the only time i can remember when he said she was an intelligent woman she needed like, i don't know, four or five languages but other than that, he never talked about his wife and i never brought her up. i obviously, there's a reason i don't bring it up because i felt guilty about it. >> so i after never seen her until the one occasion, i never correlated the two really, i just kinda out of sight, out of mind. >> when you met it was 2006, correct? >> was this shortly after his son had been born yeah. unless would he would he talk about his child? >> his son? >> no the only thing you said about his son was isn't the name baron a nice name? and i said, yeah, it is. and i said, how did you choose that name? and he told me and that's no conversation as you enter a relationship, obviously in any relationship, you start to think about where this is going to go and how you feel and how did you view it? how did you view the relationship? >> you know, going through it? >> when i look back where i was back then, i know it's wrong. >> like i'm really sorry for that. i know it's a wrong thing to do. but back in those days, sorry okay back in that de i was left was a different girl. i you know, i had fun. i was in the playboy is seen i was just enjoying life as much as i could and you know, when i got what him actually, you know, there was a there was a real relationship there, there was real they were real feelings between the two of us, not just myself, not just him. there was a real relationship there and i kinda out of sight, out of mind with everything else and in steven sayyed. i did have a lot of guilt but i still continue, you believe though, that he had real feelings for you? >> of course, he did. i know we did he would say that hey, ten. >> were you in love with him? >> i lost yeah. >> and do you think he was in love with you? he was. yeah did don't trump ever say to you that he loved you? all the time he always told me he loved me yeah. of course did he have any nicknames? >> where are you he would call me baby or he'd call me beautiful karen, would you always see him just in los angeles? no. no, i wouldn't i actually went to a golf tournament with him in lake tahoe i went to his golf course and in california i went to his his golf course home in new jersey and went to his home in new york and i'm trying to think where else i can't recall right now. yeah. >> when you say what you would arrange to go someplace, how would it be arranged? >> i would pick for the flight. i would look at myself. i would book the hotel room if i wasn't staying with him. usually i stayed with him, but there's been a couple of times where i didn't and then he would reimburse me. so if the flight was i don't know los estrada number of the flight was $500. he'd give me $500 and say here, take care of the flight and things like that. so why would he have you book all the travel and hotel rooms there's no paper trail and did you realize that at the time? >> yes, i did. >> because he was concerned about it being revealed at some point and there being a paper trail oh, i was told this there's no people's your paper trail. >> i can't say what his reasons where it i i would assume that's the case, yes. yes. >> do you said you went to a a golf tournament in tahoe? i did. >> there were other women now who've come forward saying that they also had met with him and had sex with him at that event, were you aware of any other women? >> no, i was not. i mean, i was with them plot so i didn't see anything but could he have stayed a day longer than me? sure. >> did you think that this relationship was going to last for a long time? >> did you have did you did? no. i i felt it was getting much stronger there were no gifts ever, but a christmas gift on i got him a gift and then he told me the gift. he got me wasn't apartment in new york, but it's being remodeled right now. and i never saw the apartment because i ended up breaking up or ending the relationship, but that was supposedly my gift. i don't know you went to his actual apartment in trump tower? i did i didn't know i was going there i actually had a hotel room in the city at that time. >> welcome for this trip, what was it like going out at trump tower i didn't know i was at trump tower. we went into the back entrance, so i had no idea where we were actually going. the back interests, as you know, probably is more discrete. it's like a little nothing hallway versus like when you walk into the grand right. so we went to the back entrance and then at that time i realize where we're going. and i said, aren't you afraid to bring me here? he's like they won't say anything and i'm like, okay, so we went upstairs and we looked around and to his office or to his apartment? >> his apartment. he showed me around what do you think of the department? it's very gold. >> no, actually, it's actually quite pretty. the views were amazing. it's a beautiful apartments. they have great taste. >> and he showed you around the apartment. >> he did did he reference millennia that point he did can sugar ray leonard you every tasks wearing boxing gloves bird and now putting on his new arch fit sketcher slip-ups. you just step in and goh with comfort that will knock you out to try new arch fit hands-free get your slip-ups how does climate specter get among the most big verdicts and settlements of any law firm in the country, because climate spectrum is an award winning team with five dr. lawyers the most of any firm in the united states. >> and that's why the new york times calls klein inspector a powerhouse law firm so if a defective product, motor vehicle accident or medical malpractice caused a catastrophic injury call klein inspector high, it's christina again. >> i'm here to tell you about an all new special offer from my friends at jacuzzi bathroom model that you don't want to miss, you already know jacuzzi has been making water-filled great for more than 65 years. and now they're bringing you this special tv the offer were waving all installation costs and postponing all payments for up to one year to cozy bathroom model has a design you'll love at a price. you can afford and best of all, they can install it. and as little as one day with no stress no mess. are you ready to see your new shower here it is it's fabulous. >> taking a shower had gone from being a joy to being a burden. >> i was afraid i would fall. i called and just one day i had a shower. i could feel safe in no matter your situation jacuzzi bathroom model has a solution shin for you from a safer, easy entry shower with features like grab bars and accustomed seat to keep you feeling comfortable and independent at home to a stunning family bath, or how about a luxurious upgrade with a timeline? this design that will look great for years to come plus, they're built to last with a lifetime warranty from an iconic brand. you know, you can trust it was done in the same de, we did not have to wait absolutely perfect it's exactly what i was dreaming of. if you haven't already experienced what jacuzzi bathroom model can do for you your family and your home, don't wait any longer. now is the best time to call. it's never been easier. take advantage of this special maybe today call or go online right now for a limited time offer only weeks left to get waived installation and no interests and no payments for up to one year, go to jacuzzi bathroom model.com for call 805 163978 that's 800 norman, bad news... i never graduated from med school. what? -but the good news is... xfinity mobile just got even better! now, you can automatically connect to wifi speeds up to a gig on the go. plus, buy one unlimited line and get one free for a year. i gotta get this deal... i know... faster wifi and savings? ...i don't want to miss that. that's amazing doc. mobile savings are calling. visit xfinitymobile.com to learn more. doc? doctors preferred better science, better results. >> how it really happened with jesse l. martin sunday's at nine on cnn one of the reasons karen mcdougal says she wanted to set the record straight was the donald trump through who's then longtime aide, hope hicks denied any relationship with her. mcdougal talks about that coming up in this part of our 2018 interview before the break, she was recounting how during her alleged affair with trump, she says he actually took her into his apartment at trump tower power when his family wasn't home we passed a room and he sets is melania's room. >> if she likes to have her alone time or ticket wait to read or something like that. >> i'm like, oh, okay. >> that's when i kinda thought maybe maybe they're having issues. i didn't ask. it's not my business at that point. >> how did you feel being in his apartment? >> guilty. very guilty. >> why didn't i couldn't wait to get out of the apartment. actually, i think doing something but then when you're doing some are doing something wrong is bad enough when we're doing something wrong and you're in the middle of somebody else's home or better, whatever that just puts it a little stab in your hearts. and i just couldn't wait to get out of the apartment. i wanted to go back to my hotel room. >> it made his other life more real. >> i was just going to say it made it more real to me. yes. made it more real did you see bear in there? no, i never saw barren. >> so where's this picture from? >> that picture is from the apprentice release party that they had at the playboy mansion. so they filmed it like a month beforehand, which is where i met him and then they had the release party when the apprentice actually aired. so that's when that one was. >> this is a picture with ivanka trump melania trump several of your colleagues and yourself, correct. >> did was that the first time you met millennia? >> it is. and honestly, if you can tell, i tried to keep my distance. >> i tried to go as far away as i could just because i felt guilty. >> do you think she knew you know, maybe maybe i don't know i was told to me that they were arguing that night and i said why and somebody had said probably because uh, you but i don't know if that's a factor not so don't quote me on that one. there's another picture with you with with eric trump do you know where that were those from i believe that's from the trump vodka release party that he had, which was within a couple of days of that other party did did it feel strange to meet his son or it did, but he was such a friendly guy like again, when you're doing something wrong, you try and push everything out of the weighing and make it as right as you can in your mind. so i met. all his kids except for baer and of course and i just try to shake it. but now it gets to me, but then it didn't. >> did he ever compare you to any of his kids you know, he he's very proud of ivanka as they should be. >> i mean, she's a brilliant woman. she's beautiful, she's you know, that's his daughter and he should be prouder he said i wasn't beautiful like her and, you your smart girl and there wasn't a lot of comparing, but there was some yeah. i heard a lot about her yeah did that strike you as odd in any way or i know a lot of people think it's odd. i there has been some comments i've heard in the news. he said about her. i think those comments arriving by do i think it's strange that a father would love his daughter so much that he brags about her. no, i brag about my dog that much i guess. some people seeing this are not going to believe that you had a relationship hope hicks has said categorically, you did not have a relationship. there's no truth to this when you heard that denial what did you think? well, i think somebody is lying and i can tell you it's not me it's a little hurtful, but at the same time, i have to understand like if he were to have told hips hope that he didn't do it. i guess i understand because he's trying to protect his family, his image, things like that. but it was definitely a little like wow, you're gonna lie about that. >> okay. >> when you've heard the stories of stormy daniels, who has come forward, who said that she was at the tahoe club as well and others who said that they were there you didn't know about that at the time? >> no, i did not know does it went what did you think when you heard that my first thought was, how could she have been with him when i was with him. the only time we weren't together on that particular trip was when i he was on the golf course golfing. i didn't go clearly, but i went to every event, every after thing, parties datetime, things. i was there. that's why i can't understand. now, i do remember him saying he came in one day and said though there are much a porn stars out there, they wanted pictures of me and i'm like, oh, that's funny, you it's cute. whatever i do remember him saying that, but i i can't imagine when he found the time except for maybe the de i left so it's kinda like, wow, how this happened? >> before you consider drastic weight-loss measures with dangerous side effects like surgery or pharmaceuticals, try gold my doctor prescribed a weight loss drug, but as soon as i stopped taking it, i gained all that weight back and then i lost 210 pounds with gastric bypass surgery only to gained it all back with gullo. i have completely transformed my relationship with food, whether you need to lose ten, or over 100 pounds, lose it the right way with golem if you were stationed working or living at camp zhun between 1953 and 1987, and you or a loved one have suffered from severe illness, you may be eligible for a settlement offer as a veteran, morgan in morgan really advocated for me number grave for the morgan and morgan are there. they helped me because these guy de i couldn't do a mount. >> morgan and morgan has already helping over 15 thousand veterans and their families and the fight towards justice. for more information, call the number on your screen or visit www. dot campbell as yoon injury hat i look for in a contractor is someone who is reliable and skillful. that's where angie comes in with top rated certified pros and over 500 categories. sandi can connect you with the right pro for me the home projects find top rated certified pros and your area at angie.com, a heart attack. do they have life insurance? no. >> but we have life insurance john i'm trying to find something we can afford fortunately, it only a few minutes. >> select quote found john a $500,000 policy for only $29 a month and his wife and a $500,000 policy for only $21 a month, goh to select quote.com now and get the insurance your family needs at a price you can afford. select quote, we shop, you save water would help with his dry spots. that's long disease. but scott healthy plus will cure lung disease going around. so like other people have it and it's something up a bag of the newscaster field are healthy plus lawn through today what's the greatest invention of all time? new hands-free sketcher slip ends. you just slip in and they're on. it's like they have an invisible built-in shoe horn. so your foot slides into place without bending down or touching your shoes in the heel pills and get three are only 24, 95 each close captioning brought to you by guilt visit guilt.com today for up to 70% off designer adds, it has the designers that get your heart racing had inside a prices new every day, hurry. they'll be gone in a flash. designer sales that up to 70% are shop guilt.com today this is a special edition of three 60, the karen mcdougal interview along with stormy daniels, karen mcdougal's at the center of former president trump's ongoing hush money trial she spoke to me back in 2018 or revealed for the first time on camera, the full story about her alleged relationship with trump, which she says began in 2006, and about the payment for her silence brokered through the parent company of the national enquirer. karen mcdougal has never spoken about it in such a tail on cameras since did you think maybe this would lead to a merit? >> maybe that's something though you liked him enough. >> that's something you would have liked maybe. >> did he at the time say tell you that you were his only girlfriend or did that something we never really discussed that i knew he talked to ladies, but i didn't know there was anything else. i didn't know he was intimate with other ladies, but i guess if he's makes sense, if he's doing behind his wife's back, why would not do it by my back. >> but at that time in the frame of mind, you were in then you felt you were the only thought i was the only one. yeah, i did. i thought i was the only one do you have any text messages photographs videos, anything that would dispute the hope hicks is statement that this never happened let me just say this. if you're in a loving relationship do you try and collect evidence that's not what you were thinking about no, not at all. not at all. in fact, the only thing that i have really is my journal that i keep. and like i said, i still do it to this day. it wasn't out to get anybody or gosh, get anyone in trouble but those are my notes. those are from me know when you care about somebody, you don't try and set them up in any way, shape, or form. that's my opinion this is a hard question to ask, but you said you'd have text that first time. >> all these times you saw him. this was an ongoing sexual relationship? >> absolutely. >> can you estimate how many times you actually saw him again, when you're in a relationship? >> du count, how many times you have sex? no. however, i can tell you we saw each other a minimum five times a month up to bigger numbers per month. so the course of how long over the course of 2006 through i think i ended the relationship april 2007, so we were together ten months before i chose to end it. so we saw each other quite frequently. >> so dozens of times you were together, any dozens of times you were intimate? >> yes. doesn't many dozen homes this is another tough question. and again, you don't have to answer it, but it's been raised with other people did he ever use protection? >> no. no, i didn't. was that something you thought about or they didn't concern you at the time you know, we talked about it right beforehand. >> he he was starting to and then he's like, i don't like these things and, you know, we discuss things. do you do but a lot and we were just honest with each other and we didn't we didn't use any you've talked about ending the relationship who ended the relationship? >> i didn't why i was just feeling so guilty it was just digging inside me. i think the excitement of it took over for awhile and i did care about the man i am not going to lie. so that made it hard to end it. but i think i just started feeling so bad about myself. like, how could i do this to a myself, but to be to a family, whether they get along or not, it's still a family i just needed to get out of it. i you know, i i just needed to get out of it. it just was tearing me apart and a long run. >> that's a hard thing to do to end a relationship. any relationship it was very hard. >> but i knew i needed to get out how do, you do and he wasn't in town and i just simply select this isn't working for me and it's like, why not and i told them i blamed it on my mom. i said luck. i know my mom knows about you, but she would be really, really devastated if she found out we were actually having a relationship and being intimate together and the feelings and i don't want to disappoint my mom and he said a few words and that was about it. >> one, reading seven years. >> yeah, that's not good. happen huge things happen happens. there were three, learn more at rnc.com. did you know there's no ten sketches what do you told the ball he has always been scheduled these sketches slippery these sketches libyans sketches nucleus for everyone but we still left room for all the unexpected things. >> you'll find out here. the new 2020 great cherokee lineup g, there's only one. >> it's cheap, four by four season. we're right now get the 2024 jeep grand cherokee starting at $38,290 msrp visit cheap.com for details whereby ivana we created a brand new way for you to sell your car, goh carmona answer a few questions and our techno wizardry three calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer and seconds. will come to you, pay you on the spot, then pick up your car. that's it. at carmona this is pickleball is basically tenants for babies, but for adults, it should be called width tennis total ban them like a per tags. we had nothing to worry about with e-trade for morgan stanley were ready for whatever gets served up till you get to work on your chest i'd rather work on saving for retirement for college. since we'd like to get schooled. >> that's pretty good. burn, right? >> god game. >> thanks for coming to our clinic. first one's free high. >> it's christina again, i'm here to tell you about an all new special offer from my friends at jacuzzi bathroom model that you don't want to miss, you already know cruzi has been making water-filled great for more than 65 years. and now they're bringing you this special tv offer. were waving all installation costs and postponing all payments for up to one year, two because the bathroom model has a design, you'll love at a price. you can afford and best of all, they can install it. and as little as one day with no stress, had no matt, are you ready to see your new shower here it is it's fabulous. taking a shower had gone from being a joy to being a burden. i was afraid i would fall. i called and just one de i had a shower. i could feel safe in no matter your situation, jacuzzi bathroom model has a solution for you from a safer, easy entry shower with features like grab bars and accustomed seat to keep you feeling comfortable and independent at home to a stunning family bath or how about a luxurious upgrade with a time? seamless design that will look great for years to come. plus, they're built to last with a lifetime warranty from an iconic brand. you know, you can trust it was done in the same day. >> we did not have to wait absolutely perfect is exactly what i was dreaming of. >> if you haven't already experienced what jacuzzi bathroom model can do for you. your family and your home, don't wait any longer. now is the best time to call. it's never been easier. take advantage of specialty be offered today. call or go online right now for a limited time offer only weeks left to get waived installation and no interests and no payments for a he one year goh to jacuzzi bathroom model.com or call 800 163978. that's 805, 1639 hi, in seven eight. call now you give and you give now you get with straight talk wireless, you get unlimited data and you get to choose who gets on your family plans starting at just $25 a line, doesn't have to be family. >> more lines, more savings switch to straight talk for plants starting as low as $25 a line i'm pete mundane at reagan national airport. this is cnn more now, my exclusive 2018 interview with karen mcdougal at the time, she was shocked to learn that in the months before the 2016 election are then attorney keith davidson was negotiating a deal with the parent company and the national enquirer at the same time he was talking to michael cohen than the attorney for candidate trump. >> did you ever think about rekindling their relationship not while he's married now yeah, of course, i did. i had feelings for the guy, but not while i know. now while he was married aid at that point in time, i would never do that again. no. >> you didn't speak you told friends, has anybody would tell friends about a relationship? but you didn't at any point during this time 2006, 2007, 2008, tried to reach out or did you do at any point after relationship ended think about telling your story publicly, talking about the relationship i mean, some people would have considered telling their story that never crossed your mind. >> yeah when you have when you have feelings in a relationship and you cared about somebody, why would you want to destroy their life anymore than you might have already destroyed their life? so at what point did i mean, obviously, don't trump announces for president, he's going to run he gets the republican nomination at what point does this start to come back? or this this become suddenly in the forefront for you again i was watching the republican debate with a friend named johnny is one of my good friends from many years ago. he said, you know the story is a big story and i said no way it's not going to happen. ago you know where i stand on this, jonny, i will never say anything. we dropped it. and of course, gianni is a democrat, but i'm a republican. so you're republican? i am. and i voted for donald. yes, i did. there you have it? >> yes. i heard republican so we dropped it, but then later on, maybe a week or two later, an x friend or an old friend of mine started on social media talking about my relationship and she was part of that. she she knows everything she had starting started putting it out there. so it was being seen so i came to johnny one. diana said, johnny, look what she's doing as i do, i need to worry about this and he's like, oh, absolutely you do. he said, you need to get ahead of the story now, before everyone else case, your story and manipulates it anyway, they want to manipulate it and make it this very ugly thing. you need to control your story and you need to tell your truth. and i said, yes, you're right. so that's what we decided to do and that's where gianni, one day comes, comes over and he's like our mutual friend that we have found, found this guy named keys and he's going to help you share your story. >> keith davidson? yes. correct. an attorney? yes, correct? >> an attorney who also was an attorney for stormy daniels? i didn't know that. >> yes. and others in this business clearly so what what did you do then? you contacted davidson? >> i didn't. gianni de gianni and the mutual friend contacted davidson within a matter of a couple of days, keith came out and we all had lunch together and he wanted to know details. so rosette down at lunch for a couple hours, i gave them details and keith is like the stories worth many, many millions. and unlike okay, so we talked about it and that's when keith brought it to a mi. >> so did you know that keith? your attorney, was going to go to ami which is the parent company which owns national enquirer and other magazines he said ami i didn't know what am i was to be honest, he said ami we have this company that they'll probably want to hear your story so and what was the thought of selling the story in your mind to get my truth out there i wasn't looking for money clearly, but when he said it's worth many millions, i'm like that was something it was hard to pass up. >> sure. of course did keyed have a meeting with me? did you have a meeting with him? >> we had a meeting with ami. >> you told them your story. we tell them the story. they actually didn't think is very credible, even though off the record, they said dylan, dylan believes your story, but clearly when they came back, they said it wasn't believable. >> i might julen bleep being dylan howard, and he's with ami so they had like a 12 hour window to i know i'm probably skipping around. >> i'm sorry. they had a 12 hour window to accept whether they wanted the story or not, and they didn't want the story. well, then the republican, he won the republican nomination and aim i was interested in the stray again once, don't trump won the republican nomination, ghraieb, you're saying ami suddenly came back to you with interests? >> well, to keith? yes. to us for the story what do you think it was that it was after donald trump was the republican nominee that they came back they wanted to squash story you're saying they wanted to protect donald trump i'm assuming so, yeah. >> but the offer which we didn't discuss yet or haven't discussed was they had offered me a big, you contract for work from my lane and fitness and things like that might my life has always been health and fitness, so they said they were going to have you be a column as you would write, columns about health and fitness, correct? >> they said i'd write columns. i would get one call, one article per month and okay. magazine, one article per month and star magazine for two years. and then four columns per month on rater online for two years on top of that to magazine covers their reasoning was like, you've been a successful model fitness, et cetera we want to help you continue and we actually want to re-brand you and your older now. so we want to jump-start into a new career for you and really get you out there to work. and i'm like this perfect. like who does what model, wouldn't want that especially as an older model, i you're like, oh, this is great, right so yeah. >> but then the side deal was oh, we're squash the story. >> okay. it's a win-win for me, like i get the work and my story doesn't have to come out. >> did you know that they were buying the life rights to your story? >> i did. i knew i could never talk about him. >> sure. >> so that was for you. this wasn't a nondisclosure agreement to you. this was a great business opportunity. you're gonna get paid you're going to be able to have right columns. you're going to launch a new aspect of your career. you're going to get the cover of some magazines. and on top of it you're going to sell them your story, but they're not going to publish it. and therefore, correct, there's not gonna be any ramifications. craft story, getting up. absolutely. >> i mean, who wouldn't want to get this work. >> and then that work could lead to other work or to other work. who knows where it can lead? >> of course, i was excited. >> so in an essence, you were happy to have the story killed yeah, of course, like i said, i never wanted to come forward and you are going to get $150,000 for it for having a killed and launching potentially a new career. >> well, more importantly, i looked at it as i was doing work. the columns, the covers, and i'm getting paid for that. oh, and my life story is like never has to be shared. it was more about the way it was presented. it was more about protecting me. it was more about we don't want to tarnish your image we want to keep your brand wholesome and hole so unlike that's awesome. that's great. that's the way i perceive this contract. it was a whitlam like i said, had you ever heard the term at that point, catch and kill you? i had not do you know what catch-and-kill isn't it? i do now yeah, i do now. >> what's your understanding of a catch-and-kill is catches from what i'm learning, a catch and kill is somebody for legacy for yourself, for example, taken a story about somebody you like or care about ever friendship about. >> and they squash a story. so it doesn't hurt you so get them. did you know that that's what was going that's the allegation of what was going on here. did you did you realize that at the time i knew the story wasn't going to be printed yeah. >> why do you think they swash to the story back then or now they they they didn't want to hurt him you think is because of a personal relationship with the guy who runs ami is friends with donald trump do you think i mean, you wouldn't know this, but do you think donald trump would have been aware of this, of this deal that they were doing him, that they were allegedly doing him this favor i wouldn't know but based on what i'm learning, as we're all learning together as we read and one of the big complaints with why i think my contract is illegal is because his attorney was talking to my attorney, so michael, you're saying donald trump's personal attorney, michael cohen, corrects. was talking with you without me even knowing without my knowledge i would assume that maybe he knew i know his attorney did. >> i can't say that he knew, but his attorney how do you know that michael cohen and your attorney, keith davidson, were in communication? >> i didn't know. i'm just learning this as your loneliness. it's been reported and my attorneys, they know and to you, the idea that michael cohen would be in communication with your attorney at the time theoretically, there would be no reason for michael cohen to be having communication to your attorney because this was a deal between keith davidson, you and write so why was he involved in my deal and why wasn't i told him that he was involved in my ideal that's not fair and it's quite frankly illegal the avon, how quickly was the ama ami deal done? once we agreed upon the jobs, the financial payment, it things like that. it was done very quickly in a matter of a day or two basically, i was going out of town and i said, i'll get back to in a week when i get back into town, they said the deal really needs to be done. now, unlike okay. so i think it was done within that night or the next day? okay how do you remember what was de this was or what when this was in the presidential race it was an august i sign the deal august 6. so it was probably august 5 or fourth that we finalize and then sign on the six, but i can't tell you. i don't remember whether rice was so this is in the last month or two, or the presidential race do you think the presidential race had anything to do with this deal getting done what i'm looking back at it now possibly, yeah. if don't, trump hadn't been running for president, do you believe this deal would have been made with ami knowing what you know now, probably not. >> know. how often you're pretty you're convinced now this was an effort to do a favor for donald trump in the last few months of the presidential race unfortunately yes a heart attack. >> do they have life insurance? >> no. >> but we have life insurance john, i'm trying to find something we can afford fortunately, it. >> only a few minutes. select poke down john, a $500,000 policy for only $29 a month and his wife and a $500,000 policy for only $21 a month. go to select quote.com now and get the insurance your family meets at a price you can afford select quote, we shop, you save we're trying to save the planet with nuggets because we need the planet and we also need nuggets impossible. we're setting the meat problem with more meat after advil, but night in what about your back before advil? >> advil dual action bytes paying two ways. advil targets payment. the source has seen a minute and blocks pain signals. advil dual action. >> if you were stationed working or living at camp zhun between 1953 and 1987, and you or a loved one have suffered from severe illness, you may be eligible for a settlement offer as a veteran, morgan and morgan really advocated for me, number grave for the morgan and morgan would dare they helped me because these guys de i couldn't do a mound morgan and morgan has already helping over 15,000 veterans and their families in the fight towards justice. >> for more information, call the number on your screen or visit www. dot campbell your skin is ever changing. take care of it with gold ponds, age, renew formulations of seven moisturizers and three vitamins. for all your skin's cold bond, we decided to put in an in-ground pool. >> i literally went on angie and typed in pool, getting to talk to different contractors, see different bids. >> we wanted something beautiful for we wanted something that our children will feel happy swimming in, and we love it get started today at andy.com. you want to close out should i normally, i'd hold by taking the games as smart here? >> right feel more competent. >> what's doc ratings from jp morgan analysts in the chase app, when you've got a decision to make, the answer is jpmorgan wealth management journal. >> there's no she and scatchard. >> what he's told about always been scheduled. these sketches get to slip really isn't as good be wrong thing is always in sketches from roger two, we there yet so many ways to say life ready while. it happen. that's 3605 by whole foods market water would help with this dry spots. that's long disease, but scott, healthy plus will cure lung disease going around. so like other doctors preferred better science, better results. i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon, and this is cnn at, the time of my interview with karen mcdougal in 2018, she'd filed a lawsuit against ami, the parent company and the national enquirer to release her from that contract, which brought her silence, but also promised her a number of opportunities with their publications. >> she said david pecker in ami hadn't held up their end of the bargain weeks after this interview, she settled that suit and was released from her contract some people hearing that are going to say, look you want this is your in inner for the money they're going to say, okay, obviously, we are not paying you for this interview. we don't pay for interviews, but you may go from here and write a book or make a movie, or whatever it may be, two that you say what bottom line is this? i've offered to give back the one 50 even though i only got 55% of that, i've offered to give back the one 50 just to have my my story writes back the stories out there. now i'm not telling the nitty-gritty details as you can see, i'm very selective in what i'm what i'm saying about our relationship i'm not out to make money on this. i'm out to get my rights back to prove a contract was illegal that i was taken advantage of and then go back from my life period did it anger you? i mean, it's part of this because people, the white house have said, you're lying, you're not telling the truth i don't know when leinz be called a liar, but no, it's more about the illegal portion of the contract and i'm not fulfilling what they promised me. >> they promised me this work to date. there are only ten articles and ok magazines, ten articles and stargazing, and maybe seven on right. are online, right. airline. i'm so sick of four per month i mean, the two years is up an august. i've gotten really nothing out of this so you think that whole talk of helping you relaunch a new, a whole new phase of it was fake. they didn't want to help me i thought they wanted to keep my reputation claiming from what they said they wanted to re-brand me. they wanted to i'm an older model now. they wanted to make something a new star. they promised me all these wonderful, beautiful things. even when i met with david pecker and dylan and keith in new york after this is back last august they oftenly many more opportunities, but i haven't seen anything yet. not that that's not part of the contract, but my point is, they keep dangling the carrot i'm not playing the game anymore are you aware of or have you spoken to any women with similar stories who have come forward? no, i haven't spoken anyway, i know other i've heard other stories from other people, but it's hearsay. it's not like the girl directly to me, but no, i can't comment on that would you have come forward publicly if stormy daniels hadn't come forward? >> do you think that made an impact on you i definitely think it made a little bit of an impact on me. >> it gives you more it takes a little bit of the fairway. >> however, i probably would have just because as i'm learning about this contract and the people involved in the way i was treated and all the behind the scenes, things that i wasn't whereabout and all the work i'm not getting which i contracted four. >> yeah, i probably would have come forward if you didn't get what you were told in a contract workwise, when you say something chorus, do you have any do you have any regrets about the relationship? did you say you had with him back then? yeah the only regret i have about the relationship that i had with donald was the fact that he was married, if you weren't married, i wouldn't have any regrets because he treated me very kind. >> he was very respectful as i told you, it was a good relationship while it happens. now, had i known at the time there were supposedly all these other women no, i wouldn't have been in a relationship, but i didn't know that at the time. no, no regrets. accept the fact that he was married. >> if melania trump is watching this, what would you want her to know it's a tough one or say to her, yeah. >> what can you say except i'm sorry? i'm sorry i wouldn't want it done to me i'm sorry does it for this special edition of ac30 60, the karen mcdougal, the interview. >> the news continues on cnn have a good night. >> i'd fraud next justice samuel alito throwing his wife under the bus is paul's growth for him to recuse himself from any cases related to trump. those crucial opinions or expected any de, and the nation's top constitutional expert laurence tribe, is out front. plus mtg versus aoc are you taylor greene now doubling down after for late night house for all the played out on camera. top democrat and that hearing room as my guest and cnn's exclusive video of sean diddy combs physically assaulted singh, his former girlfriend a reporter who has long covered the mobile is out front. is this just the tip of the iceberg? >> let's go out front and good evening. >> i'm erin burnett outfront tonight. my wife did it. that is the excused from supreme court justice samuel alito, as voices are growing louder for him to recuse himself from two crew michelle cases tied to trump, cases that the nine justices are deciding right now, we could find out in some of these n0 de, they're related to trump's efforts to overturn the election and that is why this image is at issue. the image obtained by the new york times was taken just days after the january 6 insurrection. and as you see, that's the american flag intentionally flown upside down it is flying outside the home of justice samuel alito now that choosing to do that is a known symbol of solidarity among trump's supporters who believed that the election was stolen now,