>>> WERE BACK, NOW, WITH TWO REPORTERS WHO HAVE BEEN COVERING
THE DETAILS OF AN ADULT FILM STAR WHO WAS REPORTEDLY PAID
$130,000 TO STAY SILENT ABOUT AN
ALLEGED AFFAIR OUR INTERLUDE OF
SORTS WITH DONALD TRUMP.
GREAT TO SEE YOU BOTH. SLATE WILL POST THE ARTICLE
TODAY FROM JACOB, WHO HAS SPOKEN
TO STORMY DANIELS.
HE TOLD US THERE WERE FOUR
INTERLUDES IN THE COURSE OF JUST
UNDER A YEAR.
YOU HEARD ALANA DESCRIBE ONE OF THEM WITH THE UNDERWEAR AND THE
CHASING.
CHASING.
WHETHER THAT LED TO SOMETHING MORE, WE ARE NOT ABLE TO REPORT
THAT TODAY.
THAT TODAY.
YOUVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS
STORY.
"THE JOURNAL" HAS BEEN FOLLOWING
THIS STORY.
WHY SHOULD PEOPLE CARE ABOUT
THIS?
SHOULD THEY CARE?
>> ILL ANSWER THAT AS A
JOURNALIST.
WE CARE BECAUSE PART OF OUR JOB IS WHO DO POLITICIANS SAY THEYB
IS WHO DO POLITICIANS SAY THEY ARE WHEN THEY RUN FOR ANY
OFFICE.
OFFICE.
IF MONEY WAS PAID TO HUSH UP AN
AFFAIR, THATS SOMETHING WE NEED
TO KNOW AS JOURNALISTS. THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HAS TO
DECIDE IF IT CARES.
THATS UP TO THE PUBLIC.
>> "THE JOURNAL" REPORTED THE
ALLEGED AFFAIR WITH KAREN, THE
FORMER "PLAYBOY" MODEL, PRIOR TO
THE ELECTION.
THE ELECTION. THEY HAD DONE SOME REPORTING ON
STORMY DANIELS PRIOR TO THE
ELECTION.
ELECTION.
THEY REPORTED THAT "NATIONAL ENQUIRER" PAID OFF KAREN.NAL
ENQUIRER" PAID OFF KAREN. BUT THE STATEMENT TO STORMY
DANIELS OF $130,000 BY THE PRESIDENTS LAWYER, MICHAEL
COHN, IS BRAND-NEW.
RIGHT?
RIGHT?
>> THATS RIGHT.
>> MICHAEL COHN HAS BEEN TRUMPS
CON SILIARY. DO YOU THINK THERES A
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MICHAEL COHN
PAYING HER THAT MONEY OR DONALD
TRUMP PAYING HER THAT MONEY?
>> YOU READ THE STATEMENT THAT
WAS SIGNED BY STORMY DANIELS
WHERE SHE SAID, I WAS NEVER PAID
HUSH MONEY BY DONALD TRUMP.
>> YOU HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION.
THATS A CAREFULLY WORDED
STATEMENT.
STATEMENT.
>> THATS A CAREFULLY WORDED STATEMENT. CAREFULLY WORDED
STATEMENT.
AND THE MILLION-DOLLAR QUESTION RIGHT NOW IS THE WHITE HOUSE IS
NOT DENYING THERE WAS A PAYMENT
MADE TO STORMY DANIELS.
MICHAEL COHN IS NOT DENYING
THAT.
THAT.
IN THE TEXT MESSAGE EXCHANGES
THAT STORMY DANIELS HAD WITH
JACOB WEISBERG AT SLATE, HE ASKED HER, WAS MICHAEL COHN THE
LAWYER WHO DID THIS SETTLEMENT?
AND SHE SAID, YEP.
THE QUESTION HERE IS, WHERE DID
THAT MONEY COME FROM?
IF IT WASNT TRUMPS MONEY,
WHERE DID THE MONEY COME FROM?
WHO PAID IT AND WHAT WAS THE
EXTENT OF HIS AWARENESS OF IT?
>> IF IT WAS MICHAEL COHNS OWN
MONEY, WHICH WOULD BE
EXTRAORDINARY, TALK ABOUT TAKING
A BULLET, RIGHT?
OR IT MAY HAVE BEEN TRUMPS
MONEY.
MONEY.
WHO ELSES MONEY COULD IT HAVE BEEN?LSES MONEY COULD IT HAVE
BEEN?
>> THAT REPORTING HAS TO
CONTINUE BECAUSE HOW MONEY GETS SPENT IN CAMPAIGNS TO AFFECT AN
IMAGE, WE HAVE LAWS AND
REGULATIONS ABOUT THAT.
THATS A QUESTION THAT NEEDS TO
BE ANSWERED.
BE ANSWERED. >> THE INFAMOUS DOSSIER, THE
RUSSIAN DOSSIER THAT MADE ALL
THAT NEWS, THEY HAD A GUY,
CHRISTOPHER STEELE, HE DID
RESEARCH AND SO ON.
TRUMP HAS DENIED THAT THING IS
REAL AT ALL.
THAT THING SUGGESTED THAT DONALD
TRUMP ENGAGED IN UNORTHODOX
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR FOLLOWED BY
SILENCING.
SILENCING.
ALSO THAT HE PARTICIPATED IN SEX
PARTIES, ALL OF WHAT HE DENIED.
WHAT WE HEARD FROM ALANA WOULD TEND TO UNDERMINE THAT HE DIDNT
ATTEND A SEX PARTY OR HE
WOULDNT ATTEND A PARTY ALONG
THOSE LINES.
THOSE LINES. BUT THERES A QUESTION HOW BIG
THIS IS.
THIS IS.
DO WE HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THIS IS IT?REASON TO BELIEVE
THIS IS IT?
>> THATS A GREAT QUESTION.
I DONT THINK YOU CAN MAKE A
LEAP FROM ONE ENCOUNTER TO CONFIRMING SOMETHING IN AO
CONFIRMING SOMETHING IN A DOSSIER, WHERE MANY OF THE
THINGS IN THAT DOSSIER HAVE NOT
BEEN PROVEN YET, A YEAR LATER
AFTER IT WAS RELEASED.
I THINK THERES QUESTIONS.
THERES TWO CASES WHERE WOMEN
HAVE REPORTEDLY RECEIVED RUSH
MONEY TO NOT GO PUBLIC WITH
THEIR CLAIMS OF A SEXUAL
ENCOUNTER OR RELATIONSHIP WITH
DONALD TRUMP.
DONALD TRUMP.
AND I THINK THAT IT REALLY DOES RAISE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ABOUT
WHETHER THIS WAS PART OF A
LARGERLARGE
LARGERLARGE ER PATTERN IN WHICH DONALD TRUMP
OR HIS AFFILIATES PAID MONEY.
>> OR THE BACKERS LIKE "THE
NATIONAL ENQUIRER."
NATIONAL ENQUIRER." THIS WOMAN WAS PAID $150,000 FOR
THREE ARTICLES.
THREE ARTICLES. AND "THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER"
DIDNT HAVE AN ACTUAL ALLEGED
ALLEGATION ABOUT AN AFFAIR WITH
DONALD TRUMP?
DONALD TRUMP?
DAVID PECKER IS VERY GOOD
FRIENDS WITH DONALD TRUMP.
>> I HAVE TO CREDIT OUR COMPETITORS AT "THE JOURNAL,"
THEY WROTE THAT STORY BEFORE
ELECTION DAY IN 2016, LATE IN
THE CAMPAIGN.
THE CAMPAIGN.
IT DIDNT GET THE ATTENTION THAT
NOW ITS GETTING.
AMI, AMERICAN MEDIA INC., WAS INVOLVED IN PAYING THIS MONEY.
THE STORY NEVER GETS TOLD.
THE PATTERN IS PRETTY CLEAR.
>> FINAL THOUGHT.
YOUVE BEEN COVERING THE ME TOO
MOVEMENT AGGRESSIVELY.
MOVEMENT AGGRESSIVELY. IT WOULDNT BE THE FIRST TIME --
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC DOES NOT
KNOW ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
IT WOULDNT BE THE FIRST TIME
WEVE SEEN SOMEBODY INVOLVED IN
A SITUATION LIKE THIS DENY ON
THE RECORD THAT ANYTHING
HAPPENED, ONLY FOR US TO FIND
OUT LATER IT DID.
>> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
HAPPENED IN THE RECENT MONTHS
WITH THE ME TOO MOVEMENT, IS A
LOT OF ATTENTION PAID TO --
THERES A NEW SPOTLIGHT ON THE
SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS OUT OF
COURT SETTLEMENTS IN WHICH WOMEN
CAN BE PAID MONEY WHETHER ITS
SOMEBODY WHO THEY SAY HAS
VIOLATED THEM IN SOME WAY.
IN THIS CASE, IT DOESNT SEEM
THAT SHES CLAIMING THIS WAS A
NONCONSENSUAL RELATIONSHIP.
NONCONSENSUAL RELATIONSHIP. >> AT ALL.
>> THERES MUCH MORE ATTENTION
PAID TO THE NONDISCLOSURE
AGREEMENTS AND SETTLEMENTS WHERE
WOMEN WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES