person for their story. and then he that s catching, and then he kills that he throws it in a safe that is, we heard, michael cohen testified before congress that david pecker, head of the national enquirer. and mr trump had this relationship for a long time before michael cohen showed up. is there a crime there necessarily mean you have the right as a journalist to obtain exclusive rights and then use your discretion about how you want to publish it. or, if at all, it s something more nefarious. it s a different story here. but when i was watching michael cohen, i was looking at it as a prosecutor thinking to myself. i ve got to overcome the very obvious point. this man s got an ax to grind. you obviously cannot stand. donald trump look at the camera and told him to, you know, almost equivalent buckle up pallets coming for you wanting him to enjoy whatever comes on tuesday, but you know what? i actually never met mother teresa . i never had her as a witness in any of my cases and the
this time next tuesday night if the schedule holds donald john trump child and product of new york will officially be defendant in a new york criminal matter. in our exclusive interview last hour with former vice president pence here s somebody told cnn s wolf blitzer about today s historic indictment. when you have an attorney general in new york manhattan, d a. that targeted one particular american in their campaigns. i think that offends the notion of the overwhelming majority of the american people who believe in fairness who believe in equal treatment before the law, and this appears to be just one more example. wolf. of the kind of two tiered justice system that the american people have had enough of it. that s the former vice president in our last hour in this hour of our live breaking historic coverage, a conversation with the one figure who has been key to first the scandal, then the investigation and now the charges against former president donald trump, his old boss, michael
attorney and fix her. who himself paid stormy daniels the money that is apparently at the center of this indictment. first though, the very latest on the history made in lower manhattan tonight, and the planned pushback from team trump cnn s christian homes joins us now what are you hearing, kristen? yes, anderson. so what we do know is that down at mar-a-lago , former president trump and his team were caught off guard by the timing of this indictment. they had been planning for the last two weeks, essentially sitting on pins and needles expecting this to come. but because of the media reports about a planned hiatus about the grand jury, not meeting over this hush money case, they believe that they had some time . so now they are kicking into gear. we have learned from a number of sources telling me that they re going to be rolling out surrogates. we ve actually already seen seen it starting tonight. i m talking about mark. the retailer green matt gates. they are all over conservative
mr trump long before i started working for him in 2007. so if this long before you started working with him in 2007, what was different about the arrangements made during the donald trump when he was running for president. if this was if this happened long before 2000 going right back into the same sort of scenario, these are, um potential. topics that may i may or may not have had with the district attorney s let me say that i stand by that statement that i made to congress to the house oversight committee that this catch and kill methodology existed between david pecker and donald trump. well before i started working for the trump organization in 2007. so let s tell us this because you ve lived through this. so you have been indicted and around what will it look like next week, which is the timing we hear is happening. what will it be like
will be charged. um do you think there s gonna be charges related to having a hard time seeing what the charge would be based on the payments to karen macdougal? because those were made by am i? i imagine instead that that would be part of the evidence that the district attorney would have presented to the grand jury and ultimately would present to a jury about the background of this relationship with ami and with michael cohen trump s way of dealing with these stories, but because the payment was made by ami, and as far as we know, wasn t reimbursed by trump or his organization or by michael cohen. i m not sure how it in and of itself becomes a charge and i think the relevance of it will be to show donald trump s knowledge knowledge of what was happening. his knowledge that this was a pattern happened, at least twice was stormy daniels and karen macdougal and they have to tie donald trump. to not just those payments, but to the way they were booked. i can t stress that enough. it s no