A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Reporter this Time Sessions surprisingly jabbed back saying in a statement while im Attorney General the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by Political Considerations. This is a little bit of a celebration meeting. Reporter earlier in the day the president tried to turn away from the russia probe to celebrate his record until he could hear the questions about the criminal records about his former advisers. President didnt say whether he would pardon his now convicted former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. Mr. Trump focussed his fury on his former attorney Michael Cohen. The president tried to say cohens crimes werent actually crimes. He pled to two counts that arent a crime. I watched a number of shows. Sometimes you get pretty good information by watching shows. Those counts arent a crime. They werent Campaign Finance. Reporter here is the
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working to buy the silence of stormy daniels and karen mcdugal, who women who alleged affairs with trump. both pecker and weisselberg helped the case in exchange for immunity. it is unclear what other secrets they may be sharing with federal prosecutors. it is unclear if attorneys in the special counsel had interest in this trove of other negative trump stories that have not yet been reported. we reached out to a.m.i. and they declined to comment. let s play this section of the tape where cohen is secretly recording trump and the discussion about buying dirt. have a listen. it s all the stuff because you never know when the company he gets hit by a truck i m all over that.
breaking campaign finance laws admitting he worked with pecker on the $150,000 deal with karen mcdugal for the rights to her story of an alleged 2006 affair with trump. do you think he was in love with you? he was. reporter: and he paid $130,000 in hush money to porn star stormy daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged 2006 the president denies both affairs. according to cohen s plea agreement beginning around august 2015 pecker offered to help deal with negative stories about trump by helping identify such stories so they could be bought and killed. pecker has a long history of squashing unflattering stories about the real estate mogul according to a senior editor who said pecker racked up a favor bank. trump has praised pecker as
exchange for his testimony before the federal prosecutors. first of all, in order for them to give him immunity he has to know a lot about hush money payments to stormy daniels, all that other stuff that michael cohen under oath yesterday before a federal judge spoke about it. i m glad you used the phrase all of the other stuff. remember in the audio recording that his client recorded to himself and candidate donald trump. he said all of that stuff. in case david pecker were to be hit by a bus. the presumption has been that karen mcdugal all of those things can come to pass. i would never have granted or asked for immunity from the department of justice to give somebody immunity unless they had information i couldn t get anywhere else or corroborated someone s testimony who is less credible or you were at risk of being prosecuted by me for your own involvement in the case.
with american media which is parent company of the national enquirer that payed her $150,000 for the rights to her story about then candidate trump at the time and never published it. the agreement also ends a civil suit claiming that ami fraudulently entered into the agreement. let me get you on this. mcdugal has to a large degree already shared her story. she talked about it on national television. what practical effect does this latest legal move have? it s a good question. it basically releases her to talk about what she claims was an affair in 2006, indeed the same year that stormy daniels