that was a key concern for karen mcdougal herself. she said on the record in that story that i wrote, i want to warn other women about this practice. and about a set of contracts that she ultimately found onerous and exploitative. now she's talked to you. she has filed a complaint legally where she wants to sue ami, and she's going on the offensive on the basis of that argument. if you look at that complaint, anderson, there is a very clear articulation of a public policy argument, saying this is something that suppressed the marketplace of free ideas, that distorted an election, possibly. >> but, you know, karen mcdougal says in the deal with ami, she was aware they were not going to run her story. and in fact, she says she was glad that they were going to bury it. obviously, she was also glad to get money for that and what she said she was promised about kind of a new potential career as a writer. you know, as sort of an expert on aging and health. i guess that's the other side of this. that some people who want to keep a damaging s

but karen mcdougal says it was under false pretenses. whether that's true or not, it seems like her attorney at the time may have misled her, her attorney who was negotiating this contract for her. it seems he may have led her into believing, number one, that the "national enquirer" was going to leak this story. >> she seemed relieved that she was going to get paid, the story wouldn't come out and she would get this new career. that has nothing to do with donald trump. by the way, they do catch and kill all the time for people running for president. this isn't something just for donald trump. >> it does potentially implicate him on a different potential level which is on federal campaign finance laws. discovery is going to have to reveal where this money came from, how this came about, but the problem is that corporations are not allowed to give a contribution to a federal candidate. now, if the overarching company for "national enquirer" actual dl make this payoff and it can be deemed a contribution, there is a problem. >> let me bring

donald trump is not just afraid of karen mcdougal. he is terrified into silence by her. karen mcdougal is a former playboy model who allegedly had an ongoing romantic sexual affair with donald trump at the same time that donald trump was allegedly sexually involved with the porn star stormy daniels. and i'm not sure how the word allegedly got into the teleprompter there. but last night karen mcdougal said that donald trump said, i love you, to her many, many times. donald trump was saying i love you to karen mcdougal just months after his third and current wife gave birth to his fifth child. and karen mcdougal says he often mentioned his first daughter, who was born to his first wife. >> did he ever compare you to any of his kids? >> you know, he -- he's very proud of ivanka. as he should be. i mean, she's a brilliant woman, she's beautiful. that's his daughter and he should be proud of her. he said i was beautiful like her. and, you know, you're a smart girl. there wasn't a lot of comparing, but there was some. i heard a lot about her, yeah. >> in a report in the wall s

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karen mcdougal got $150,000. do you have any idea how much more money, how much more money was paid to other women, potentially? >> you know, i'm not going to talk about anything other than what we've reported. we have seen those documents and all of the billing between karen mcdougal and her representatives and the company and i'll leave it at that. she did get that $150,000. although i would note, a whole lot of that was skimmed off the top by multiple parties who were involved in this transaction. you know, look, a lot of these women, including stormy daniels and karen mcdougal are quick to say, "we're not victims," but i think that also, they have not profited as richly as many would assume. >> and keep in mind, the money -- the complexity of this scheme. the money for karen mcdougal came from american media, came from the national enquirer parent company. the money from stormy daniels came, at least according to michael cohen, from michael cohen, personally. so this was an elaborate system to protect donald

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>> exclusive cnn interview with former playboy model karen mcdougal. she said her affair with the president lasted a year and he offered to pay her for ait. >>> and a government shutdown? >>> and a trade war has commenced. china saying it will respond to the trump tariffs. the news sent the dow and markets plummeting on the news. >>> what advice would you give to the 25-year-old donald trump knowing what you know today? >> don't run for president. >> and that millennial for him. i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. it is friday, march 23rd. we got four stories, christie, and we have not mentioned the exchange of threats with the former vice president and president trump. that was yesterday. it is a wild friday. a move that was predictable. national security adviser h.r. mcmaster is out and john bolton is in. he is the new national security adviser effective april 9th. the president announced a major personnel change on twitter. it comes a week after he denied stories about the pending staff shakeups. >> there will always be change, but it was a fa

that would be the former playboy model karen mcdougal. her lawyer peter smith joining us now. >> thanks for having me. >> we heard your client saying she just wants her life rights back, her words. but why did she choose to come forward now? >> i guess, let me start by saying that karen told her story to anderson last night, and it was her job to tell her story not to argue a legal case. but in telling her story i think it's pretty clear that she was direct, she was authentic, and, you know, she was relatable. and that's one of the reasons we're proud to represent her. >> and the decision to come forward now? >> now thenition to come forward now has everything to do with the fact that she meants wants able to defend herself. and for the past year, ami, the parent company of the national inquirer has said something different publicly and done things differently publicly. so the fact they say she was always able to come forward, she could respond to the media, that's not how they always behaved. they spent a year manipulating her and intimi

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mcdougal and now what is the story of stormy daniels, of course karen mcdougal's interview aired before stormy daniels, but stormy daniels taped her interview with anderson cooper before karen mcdougal's interview. >> both of these affairs happened a little more than a decade ago. both of these women had dinner with trump in his hotel suite. both of them asaid that trump said that they reminded him of his daughter ivanka. we know that melania trump's not with president trump right now, she's at mar-a-lago, on what is described as a prescheduled spring break, no matter how americans feel about the president, they're going to feel sympathy toward melania donald trum trump. this is a comit different in a way because there are allegations of nonconsensual sex as you were talking about earlier that were in the news, and there's evidence of consensual affairs as well. >> let's not forget juanita broderick and kathleen willey. >> that's why so many conservatives said this is sick, this president is sick, i'm not here to be morality police, what happens between a husband and wife, but this is a

i'm sorry. >> more with karen mcdougal tonight. that's ahead. first the naming of john bolton as mcmaster's replacement. something the white house said last week was not happening. >> sarah, you took to twitter last night to ensure the public that mcmaster's job was safe. but has the president spoken directly to mcmaster, carson, scholtens to tell them that their jobs are, in fact, safe? >> like i said last night, and i'll echo it again, i spoke directly to the president last night. he asked me to pass that message along to general mcmaster. >> well, that was the old message. the new message is more like thanks and good luck. the latest from jeff zeleny who's at the white house. so sarah sanders, that was a week ago, what happened? >> reporter: a lot happens in six days. and one of the major things that happened here was the leak of the phone call of the president with vladimir putin. his national security advisers giving him a message, do not congratulate president putin. the president did congratulate him. that is one of the things that set th

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peter stris is also joining us, the lawyer for the former playmate, karen mcdougal who claims she, too, had an affair with mr. trump. and correspondents and analysts are standing by. first, let's go to michelle kosinski. the u.s. getting ready to expel 60 russian diplomats. >> this was a big coordinated effort, wolf, and the scope of it surprised many. we know some u.s. allies thought maybe the u.s. would match or nearly match what the uk did by expelling 23 russian diplomats and the attack happened on their soil but instead we saw this administration nearly triple that number and they hardly did this in the kindest, gentlest way possible flat out calling these russians intelligence agents saying this is going to significantly hurt russia's ability to spy on american soil. 60 russian diplomats. according to the trump administration, aggressive spies, have one week to pack their bags and get out. a dozen russians will be kicked out of new york at the u.n. 48 others at embassies and consulates around the u.s. the russian consulate in seattle will be shuttered. administration officials sa

>> exclusive cnn interview with former playboy model karen mcdougal. she said her affair with the president lasted a year and he offered to pay her for it. >>> and breaking. senate votes to fund the government through september. one senator wanted to stop it all in the name of a nature preserve. >>> and a trade war has commenced. china saying it will respond to the trump tariffs. the news sent the dow and markets plummeting on the news. >>> what advice would you give to the 25-year-old donald trump knowing what you know today? >> don't run for president. >> he loves being president. >> i think so. >>> welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. the president said he would run it like a business, but it is more like mcdonald's. he has a 48% turnover rate. that is unprecedented in modern political times. a move as predictable as it was haphazardly rolled out. h.r. mcmaster is out and john bolton is in. with the second time in as many weeks, the president announced a major personnel change on twitter. i

. >> and that match what karen mcdougal say the two woman don't know each other. and the daughter. >> to this day i just can't get past the way he talks about ivanka, both the way he talked about her to howard stern in the past and the way he talks to other women about it, it's just not normal. >> why do you think it register -- there was a panel on with women who were trump supporters and they were making excuses for his behavior like he's changed somehow. >> i watched that segment. my jaw was on the ground because they did not seem to be talking about the donald trump whom we have all been reading about and reporting on and getting to know over the last two years. >> we know -- >> i chalk it up to the triblism i mentioned before. they have made a decision they are on team trump. probably lifelong republicans. they probably have issues with the democratic party so they are going to see everything in the most positive light possible and they're going to rationalize and explain away any evidence that doesn't fit what they want to believe. that was an absolute stunt

mcdougal there, back-to-back, and now karen mcdougal's lawyer just tweeted, says, i represent karen mcdougal, and we believe stormy daniels. the panel is back with me now. mark, you first, your reaction? >> i just am perplexed by all of this. i know that as a cnn analyst i'm supposed to give you some smart legal insight here, but i really am somewhat -- i'm somewhat perplexed as to and bewildered by what the end game is here. i get that the lawyer says he believes her. i believe both of the women, but at the end of the day, so what? i don't have a whole lot of sympathy or empathy for melania, the third wife, was cheating on his previous wives, not a secret. who knows what their relationship is. i understand we're supposed to beat our chests, say this is horrible, and blah, blah, blah, and i'm no great supporter of donald trump at all, but at the end of the day, i wish -- i just wish there was something tawdry in the russian investigation because that certainly, to me, seems to have a lot more import for the country than this does. >> daniels' lawyer, you'll recall, tweeted a photo o

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when it comes to karen mcdougal -- mixing them all, karen mcdougal or summer -- >> karen mcdougal. >> suing because she was hoodwinked by ami. >> bad lawyer. >> and her lawyers. that's dirty dealing that, again, will make her a sympathetic litigant against the president, or at least puts the president in a space where he's going, doing battle with someone -- >> okay. here's the toughest question, to jonathan, the toughest question of all, does this matter to trump supporters? any of it? >> none of it has yet. poll numbers among core supporters, that includes evangelicals -- >> he's at 43% now. >> if you were to draw up a blind -- no name, list all these revelations and hand that to your average evangelical voter they'd probably be aghast. donald trump, they staill suppot him, believe in his mission, even if they don't approve of his personal buy heaehavior. puts pressure on republicans to face more questions, a distraction -- >> does it make them want mike pence? >> i mean -- >> i'm serious. does it make them want mike pence? which means would they just as soon get this guy out of the

president, is stormy daniels and karen mcdougal lying about the affairs? >> just camera clicks, huh? the president didn't answer that. maybe he didn't hear. then i guess he also didn't hear cnn's jeff zeleny asking the president as he was headed to marine one, on his way to mar-a-lago. here it is. >> will you watch "60 minutes" on sunday, mr. president? >> stormy daniels' attorney, who tweeted out a picture of a dvd late last night with the caption, if a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is this worth? he told wolf blitzer this today. >> the tweet is a warning shot. i want to be really clear about this. it is a warning shot. >> so much more on that in just a few minutes. we have a whole lot to cover on a friday night. i want to bring in mark preston, matthew rosenberg and kirsten powers, and former congressman david jolly. happy friday to everyone. thank you so much for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> let's talk about this, mark, seriously. usually we see this, right? >> big sweeping signatures, too. >> why didn't we see that today?

and this is when donald trump reportedly met karen mcdougal for the first time. you roll up to hugh hefner's house. who was there? >> first we were greeted by his three -- i guess not three wives, but three girlfriends, i suppose. don't remember all their names but they were there. and then we sort of had a discussion with hechlt fner about half an hour and there was a bunch of playmates who were out in the backyard in the grotto. there's a zoo. they have all kinds of stuff back there. karen mcdougal was back there and trump eventually joined us for the party. >> did you know who she was at the time? >> she was actually pointed out. i remember that she was very friendly. she seemed -- everyone, actually, other than trump, of course, other than our president, seemed very gracious to everyone, was friendly, sort of mingling. and, of course, you know, the president was there and sort of holding court and sort of sizing everyone up. of course, >> why do you say that? how do you know he was sizing them up? what did you see? >> well, you kind of see his eyes and you se

karen mcdougal makes for an incredible witness, and so does stormy daniels for that matter. i don't think any of that touches the president. at the end of the day i think he is impervious to this. the decisions he has made, the fact that these are just for the moment breaking news stories is but in the mix with lots of other breaking news stories, they end up getting lost in the breaking news stories. they keep our attention for a moment but don't ultimately hurt the president, certainly not with his base. >> i want to turn to the drama unfolding around the spending bill yesterday. let's watch a clip from the president's remarks. >> there are a lot of things that i'm unhappy about in this bill. there are a lot of things that we shouldn't have had in this bill but we were in a sense forced, if we want to build our military. but i say to congress i will never sign another bill like this again. i'm not going to do it again. >> should congress take that threat seriously, rick? >> probably not. though he did cause quite a stir. they were all leaving on easter break. he said he's

karen mcdougal said it happened before trump was president. it began a few months after melania trump gave birth. >> 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. he told me keith his bodyguard was going to pick me up and then we were driving over to the beverly hills total. keith drove around to the back. he said we have to get out here because we don't want to walk through the hotel. at that minute i'm thinking to myself, are we going to a room? i thought we were having dinner at the beverly hills hotel. >> in the actual restaurant? >> right. we did have dinner at the beverly hills hotel. we talked for a couple hours. we were getting to know each other. we were talking about his birthday. as the night ended, we were intimate. >> what happened after you had been intimate? >> well, after we had been intimate, he tried to pay me. and i actually didn't know how to take that. >> did he try to hand you money? >> he did. and i said -- i just had this look of, i don't know -

president, is karen mcdougal telling the truth? >> any comment on mrs. mcdougal. >> will you watch "60 minutes" on sunday? will you watch "60 minutes" mr. president? >> well, the president also

karen mcdougal says the opposite. that she contracted to speak. and she's alleging today, and we don't have the papers yet, so i have to say, i'm basing this off "new york times" reporting, that she thought she was making a deal to talk about things in the "national enquirer." then after she takes the money, she's basically told, through this very odd arrangement -- why is michael cohen involved in any way with the nation"national e " enquirer's" publication materials, but then she's told, you can't talk at all, you have to deny, and she, as other women have been, this is her side of the story, she feels tricked, threatened, and warned that she could face serious financial penalties and bankruptcy. and i can tell you from reporting on these stories in a broader ambit, this is something other women accusers have complained and faced and felt misled about. the law doesn't always support a contract if it's based on a law. the other side of this coin will be the enquirer saying, here's the truth that you took money for this and we retain the authority

from karen mcdougal to stormy daniels. while everyone was watching this anderson interview with karen mcdougal, stormy daniels took to twitter and put out this photo. she said if a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is this worth? and you see what looks to be maybe a cd, some kind of disk, including the #60minutes. what could this mean? >> this is avenatti alert. what's missing here is the red siren emoji. watch "60 minutes." my client is telling the truth. it's no different than the polygraph photo, of stormy taking the polygraph test. he is corroborating her voracity and setting the stage for sunday, which will be way better than the super bowl. i think it's evidence, those photos, those videos she may have had are on that cd, whether we're going to see those or -- i don't know. but it's definite ly setting th stage and corroborating her truthfulness. >> it's their way of saying sort of out of the trump playbook. stay tuned. sara aziri and kate bennett, thank you for that. >>> coming up, after president tr

here's more from karen mcdougal. >> when you heard the stories of, you know, stormy daniels, who has come forward, who said she was at the tahoe club as well, and others who said they were there, you didn't know about that at the time? >> no, i did not. >> does it -- 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. i went to every event, every after thing, parties, daytime things, i was there. that's why i can't understand. now, i do remember him saying, he came in one day and said there were a bunch of porn stars out there, they were wanting pictures of me, i was, like, that's funny, that's cute, whatever. i do remember him saying that, but i -- i can't imagine when he found the time, except for maybe the day i left. >> when you heard that, access hollywood tape come out, on a personal level, i'm wondering what you thought. >> you know what, i was disgusted. i had not seen that in him at

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karen mcdougal says she had a ten-month affair with donald trump. she is suing american media, inc., which is the company that owns the "national enquirer." she says she was paid $150,000 but the publication never ran the story. this is a practice commonly known as catch and kill. she said that, in addition to that, that the company has threatened her with financial ruin. so this is the second woman now that we know of that wants to take legal action in order to be able to tell her story about donald trump. >> both of these cases deal with consensual relationships and non-disclosure agreement. this other case, athena jones, not consensual at all. it has to do with former apprentice contestant summer zervos. >> she says trump assaulted her in 2007. she said unwanted kisses, at one point kissed her aggressively, touched her breast. she made these allegations in october of 2016, close to the election. that very same day, candidate trump denied the allegation, continued to deny in on twitter, campaign rallies and debates. not just allegations made by su

cnn was running images all day long of porn star stormy daniels next to karen mcdougal. were not making this up. there's a serious knowledge of this. aside from anderson's usually salacious interviews, the coverage of daniels and mcdougall is revealing a huge double standard in this country. you have allegations from a porn star about a one-time consensual relationship with donald trump getting aroundco the clock coverage. cnn, abc, nbc, according to a study, this is where we get serious, between march the seventh of march 25th, the evening newscasts from just nbc, abc, cbs, they dedicated a whopping 40 minutes of airtime to trump allegations of a consensualll relationship. for decades, the mainstream media has completely ignored serious stories of abuse, juanita broaddrick, paula jones, all women that accused a former president, bill clinton, of serial predator misconduct. and thehe media research center crunch those numbers. according to their account, 1994 when paula jones came forward with details about bill clinton dropping his pants and exposing himself to her in h

i want to play you more of karen mcdougal's interview in which she says trump tried to pay for her sex. >> after we had been intimate he tried to pay me and i don't know how to take that. >> did he try to hand you money? >> he did. he did and i said -- i just had this look of -- i don't know, just -- i don't even know how to describe it, the look on my face must have been so sad because i had never been offered money like that before, number one, but number two i thought does he think i'm in this for money or why i'm here tonight or is this a normal thing? i didn't know. so i left, i got into the car for keith to take me home and i started crying, it really hurt me. but i went back. >> does anything about the way that trump reacted to that time in his life when "the apprentice" wasn't doing as well, he's at a celebrity golf tournament and he's not the biggest celebrity and he's having these multiple affairs while melania just had barron. is there anything about his behavior that tells what we might expect in his behavior. >> that's the same year he sued me. i wrote a book he wasn't hap

also karen mcdougal, that former playboy model who said she also had an affair with the president. so it certainly has been becoming a thing that is more and more especially as the legal matter ramps up here. >> how is melania trump or her office responding to this? >> reporter: she did not travel back to washington with the president last night. and the white house says this is because of a preplanned vacation staying in florida with their young son, of course, saying it is his spring break. as many people were tweeting about the fact that melania did not come back to washington with the president, her communications director stephanie grisham seemed to respond to all of the comments on that, writing on twit, quote, while i know the media is enjoying speculation and salacious gossip, i would like to remind people there is a minor child whose name should be kept out of news stories when at all possible. >> kaitlan collins at the white house, thank you. >>> let's bring in paul callan. one thing noticeable, especially if you watched the karen mcdougal interview with anderson and the

the latest accuser to come forward, former playboy model karen mcdougal. >> karen mcdougal had a sexual relationship with donald trump for ten months. it was a romantic relationship. they were together very often. >> reporter: the alleged affair was more than ten years ago. mcdougal says in 2016 she was paid $150,000 by "the national inquirer's" parent company to keep her secret. now she's suing american media inc whose boss is a friend of donald trump. mcdougal the second woman this month taking legal action to tell her story following stormy daniels. >> do you have a nondisclosure agreement? >> do i? >> this is a photo of her taking a lie detector test in 2011. the polygraphed report obtained by nbc news found the examiner to find daniels to be truthful to say she had unprotected sex with donald trump. the white house repeatedly called the claims false. overnight daniels tweeted, technically i didn't sleep with the potus 12 years ago. there was no sleeping. adding, i'm not going anywhere. on tuesday a new york judge rule in favor of former "apprentice" con test isn't a siri ramos deny

karen mcdougal has said the same thing. did you talk about that with stormy daniels in your interview? >> yeah, that was actually one of the most surprising things that she told me. it was again cringe worthy to me as well. again, it just shows that she is sticking to her story. the interaction is the same. it also shows a pattern that donald trump has. they had dinners in hotel rooms, it wasn't like they were going out to restaurants, and it seemed like he kind of had this down to a science across the board with all of these women. it's something that he did quite frequently, apparently. >> well, jordi lippe-mcgraw, you were first on this story. thanks for sharing your account of it. >> yes, of course. >>> coming up next, far right-wing conspiracy theories have gone viral, demonizing the young child survivors of the parkland school shooting. demonizing him as unamerican. a photoshopped image showing one student tearing up the constitution. the fact is that's just not true. we'll discuss the impact of this, next. hi. i'm th

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and, you know, 63% of women believe these stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. and to me that says, you know, i think it is a strong indication of women overperforming in november. we saw it in virginia. we saw it in pennsylvania. we saw it in new jersey. i think it can be a very strong indication that that trend will continue and also perhaps intensify. >> interesting, amanda. i can hear you remarking right there. 63%, not just women, by the way, who believe stormy daniels and karen mcdougal here. 63% of voters. men are involved in that also. a vast majority of people believe their story. i was looking at the numbers yesterday, more evangelical voters actually believe the women. everyone seems to believe them over the president. what does that tell you? >> i think to analyze the situation correctly you almost have to take the sex out of it because if this is just a sex scandal, president trump survives it very easily because people knew about the problems he had with women. what this scandal really is about is secrets and lies and the way that president trump d

our breaking news coverage continues with the interview with karen mcdougal. >>> breaking news involving the adviser who will be at the president's elbow if it ever comes down to pushing the button. a three-star general is leaving, his replacement, a former ambassador, a tv pundit who's been called by some a loose cannon. and my interview with karen mcdougal, a relationship that began a few months after melania trump gave birth. if launmelania is watching this what would you want her to know? >> ooh, it's a tough one. >> or say to her. >> yeah, what requecan you say t i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i wouldn't want it done to me. i'm sorry. >> more kara mcdougal tonight. thatt that's ahead. and the naming of john bolton as mcmaster's replacement. something the white house said last week was not happening. >> sarah, you took to twitter last night to ensure the public that mcmaster's job was safe. but has the president spoken directly to mcmaster, carson, scholtens to tell them that their jobs were at stake? >> i spoke directly to the president last night. he asked me to pass that message along to g

la modelo de playboy karen mcdougal compartiÓ detalles de su relaciÓn con trump. >> [ habla en inglÉs] galo: por momentos sollozÓ finalmente la ex modelo de playboy hablÓ con cnn. confesÓ todo lo que le ofrecieron para acallar la historia de amor que dice haber vivido or nueve meses con donald trump. >> me dijeron que escribÍa columnas. tendrÍa un artículo por mes en la revista "ok" y dos portadas de revista. galo: sostiene que la primera cita fue en el hotel beverly hills de los Ángeles. en ese entonces, tons -- trump ya estaba casado con melania. >> despuÉs de haber tenido intimidad trato de pagarme. galo: dice que ella tenÍa contacto con la secretaria, el chofer y otros asistentes de trump. relatÓ que el sexo fue consensual y sin protecciÓn. >> todo el tiempo decÍa que me amaba. galo: admite que sentÍa culpa por melania trump. >> nunca me referÍ a su esposa. Él lo hizo una vez y es la Única vez que recuerdo. dijo que era una mujer inteligente que hablaba cuatro o cinco idiomas. galo: indicÓ que trump incluso la hizo entrar por la puerta trasera de la torre trump y

the karen mcdougal interview aired after stormy daniels. they both said they reminded him of his daughter, the lack of protection they used in the encounters. it seems like -- if the allegations are true, he's got a way in which he does these things. the fact their stories do match up on all these points that you can't really pull out of thin air, especially on the ivanka front, doesn't give him a lot of credibility. and they're very genuinely seeming people when they're talking about these encounters. >> melania trump, the first lady, issued a statement. while i know the media is entertaining such solac ir krrs gossip, i would like to remind people there's a minor child who who's name should be kept out of news stories when at all possible. >> and karen mcdougal was staying in the apartment in trump tower, which i think would set any wife off, and she's trying to protect her kid. because he's old enough for his friends at school to be watching this and hearing their parents talk about it. and i'm sure it's really difficult for her. we know

karen mcdougal was offered $150,000 in a deal with american media inc. the similarity in the stories now is both women, even before the lawsuits have come to a conclusion decided to speak out. they both say they feel threatened to some degree but they would rather speak out now and forego the possibility of staying silent about their affairs with donald trump. >> of course we know nondisclosure agreements are something the president used in his businesses in the past as well. mj lee, thank you very much. this is a remarkable story. cringe-worthy at times. >>> the white house briefing expected to begin any moment now. they'll face questions about stormy daniels's interview. we'll have the briefing live, of course, and a stunning revelation. the father of the pulse nightclub shooter in orlando worked as a secret fbi informant long before the deadly attack happened. could this up end the case against the gunman's wife? if your adventure keeps turning into unexpected bathroom trips you may have overactive bladder, or oab. >>> that white house press briefing

about the payments to karen mcdougal, and he said very explicitly, i paid that money because i wanted to get donald trump elected president and i paid her and didn't run the story. i did that as a service to my friend donald trump so this was clearly, you know, you can call it conspiracy, not a criminal conspiracy, but an agreement to help donald trump by burying the story. >> it looks likes an in kind contribution, by the way, if you're doing something to help someone get elected, that involves other than $100,000, that sounds like a contribution. >> that money also went to pay for certain articles she would write about fitness and whatnot. but there's no question the primary motivation for getting her that money was to help donald trump win. >> keith davison who was also trying to get this agreement. he was also the attorney for stormy daniels. it's a small world. >> there does seem to be some sort of a system in place, to try to keep these women quiet. now the money came from different sources, american media paid karen mcdougal, michael cohen, which i still find unbelievable, says

. >> don't forget, you also have the stormy daniels, karen mcdougal swirling as well. that's a whole other legal issue. >> absolutely. >> we will talk about it in just a second. bob and gloria, thank you so much. >>> also breaking this afternoon, look at all the red on your screen. we are about 51 minutes away from the closing bell and the dow is down after president trump announces these new tariffs targeting china. might this be a sign that we could be heading into some sort of global trade war? how will china retaliate and how might this impact an every day american? >>> also, president trump responding to joe biden. both men saying they could go toe to toe and physically beat up each other. is joe biden setting the stage for something bigger, perhaps? >>> also, rex tillerson revealing how he really feels about washington as his tenure as secretary of state is coming to an end. to quote him, d.c. is one mean-spirited town. last years' ad campaign was a success for choicehotels.com badda book. badda boom. this year, we're taking it up a notch. so in this commercial w

i'm sorry. >> karen mcdougal. reaction from our panel. david gergen, just in terms of the lawsuit she has filed. is it clear to you what legitimacy it has? >> i don't understand it. i'm perplexed by it. i don't understand why she's doing an interview with apologies to you. with i think that the it could have been handled differently. it's just inexplicable to me. the idea suing keith davidson as well for not telling her she was talking to michael cohen. my guess is, i haven't talked to keith, my guess is keith thought he was doing something good. he was talking to michael cohen to leverage a deal. with ami. because of michael cohen had not blessed it i'm sure ami was never going to pay her the money in the first place. so. >> she wants the life rights back from ami. that that's essentially what they own in that contract. is that something she can actually sue to get back? >> yes. she can sue to get that back. when you say you want your life rights back and you're not in this for the money, that's another thing this is perplexing. i don't

the staff shake-up also came just before a prime time interview with karen mcdougal, a former "playboy" model who says she had an affair with the president years ago. and tonight, another potentially explosive interview is set to air. this one with adult film actress stormy daniels, who says she too had an affair with trump and was paid to keep quiet about it. so, what's at stake for the president? let's bring in abc news chief legal analyst dan abrams and chris ruddy, ceo of newsmax media and a personal confidant of the president's who is also an abc news contributor. and, chris, i want to start with you. you are a friend of the president. i know you spoke to him yesterday. we've seen so many sudden moves from the president this week with his staff, mcmaster out, bolton in. should we expect more of this? >> the president told me he's perplexed by all of these reports there's chaos at the white house or mass staff changes. he told me that he thinks the white house is operating like a smooth machine, his words. he did say that he's expecting to make one or two major changes to his gover

with respect to karen mcdougal, that's a different nda. it's not between donald trump, not between michael cohen. it's between a media company that had the right to do that whole catch and kill. they don't have to ever publish it. in fact, the contract essentially says that she is required not to speak, but they're never required to publish it. what you have here is the very reason that donald trump has gone out and gotten a very aggressive attorney by the name of charles harter who is known for being the person to defend hulk hogan in the gawker litigation. because the whole point was to send a message to anybody else who has a story to tell with a contract that says you can't say anything, they have to send a very clear message. remember, in that case, it was $100 million plus jury verdict for having the information out there. so you have a very uphill battle here. but you have to keep separate the court of public opinion, what would persuade us to believe or not believe an affair, and what the court is going to say about i actually want

you bring up karen mcdougal. >> did he ever ask you to hide it? >> no, he didn't, never. actually, no. >> so there was never a conversation of -- >> never. i think once he asked, does your sister know? i said yeah, she knows. he wasn't afraid to hide it at all. i'm not a liar. i'm perceived as a liar. all this and that, all these bad names. i did what i did. i feel terrible about it. but i'm a new woman, new creation, and i'm standing up for myself. >> does this one feel different to you in terms of the interview? if you think about stormy daniels, particularly when she went on jimmy kimmel, there was that coy behavior, did i, and she was very sort of deflective with the answers. but karen mcdougal comes out and talks about the time of her relationship, that she really loved donald trump. she thought there was something there. again, i think it is important to take away all of the salacious details and all of the gossip and focus on the legality of this. because this is where it's interesting in the sense that she is claiming that her attorney was working with the private

peter strauss is karen mcdougal's current lawyer. i'm assuming you're ready to answer all the questions. >> i'm ready. >> first of all, peter, what did she think she was signing and why did she sign it? >> american media ink not only owned "national enquirer" but six fitness magazines. she thought she was signing a legitimate writing and modeling contract. to be clear she knew they were buying her story and she knew that the "national even requirer" was not going to publish it. but she had no idea she wasn't going to be able to respond to press inquiries. ami takes the position she can and we're thrilled, but the reality is their private position is very different and for over a year, they've made her terrified. >> how so? >> so after "the new yorker" ronan farrow story came out, any disclosures will lead to breach of contract and will lead to significant monetary damages. we all know what that means. you get sued for $20 million. >> if they're saying she can talk now, doesn't that mean everything is taken care of. >> this week in th