>>A NEW REPORT IN THE NEW YORKER AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDICATES THAT THERE WERE OTHER INSTANCES OF THE NATIONAL
ENQUIRER, WHICH HAS BEEN VERY FAVORABLE TO DONALD TRUMP,
CATCHING AND KILLING CERTAIN STORIES THAT WOULD MAKE TRUMP
LOOK BAD.
NOW, WE KNOW ABOUT THE STORY INVOLVING A WOMAN THAT
TRUMP HAD AN AFFAIR WITH, AND HOW THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER
ESSENTIALLY BOUGHT THE RIGHTS TO HER STORY AND THEN DID NOT
PUBLISH ANYTHING ABOUT THE STORY, BUT NOW WE HAVE YET
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER DOING SOMETHING VERY
SIMILAR, SO LET'S GET TO THAT.
NOW --
>>
>>-- THIS WAS ABOUT EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE MICHAEL COHEN PAID
OFF STORMY DANIELS --
>>
>>THAT IS THE STORY THAT THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER DIDN'T WANT
PUBLISHED ANYWHERE, SO THEY MET WITH THIS GUY, THEY PAID HIM
$30,000, AND THEN THEY NEVER PUBLISHED OR RAN THE STORY
BECAUSE THEY HAD NO INTENTION OF DOING SO.
NOW WHAT'S INTERESTING
IS SOMEONE LEAKED INFORMATION ABOUT THIS DEAL TO THE MEDIA,
AND SO THE FORMER TRUMP EMPLOYEE DECIDED TO SPEAK TO THE PRESS
ABOUT ALL OF THIS, AND SAJUDIN SAID --
>>
>>I WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT SOMETHING, WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO
EVIDENCE THAT HE ACTUALLY FATHERED A CHILD WITH SOMEONE HE
HAD AN AFFAIR WITH.
>>DOESN'T SOUND LIKE TRUMP TO ME.
>>AGAIN WE DON'T HAVE EVIDENCE AND I DON'T EVEN WANT TO
SPECULATE, BUT WITH THAT SAID I THINK THAT WHAT IS HAPPENING
RIGHT NOW WITH THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER IS SCARY, AND, YOU
KNOW, DAMAGING TO OUR WHOLE POLITICAL SYSTEM.
I MEAN, IF
THEY ARE GOING OUT OF THEIR WAY TO SILENCE PEOPLE -- FIRST OF
ALL THERE'S AN ISSUE WITH POTENTIAL CAMPAIGN-FINANCE LAWS
BEING BROKEN, WHICH NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED, BUT MORE
IMPORTANTLY IT SKEWS THE WAY THE PRESS COVERS CERTAIN STORIES IN
A CERTAIN CANDIDATE'S FAVOR, AND I WOULDN'T WANT THAT IN FAVOR OF
A DEMOCRAT AND I CERTAINLY DON'T LIKE IT IN FAVOR OF A REPUBLICAN
LIKE DONALD TRUMP.
>>I'M GLAD TO HEAR YOU SAY THAT BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S EXACTLY
THE UPSHOT OF THE STORY, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY THIS IS WHAT IS
WHAT HAPPENED IN AN AMERICA WHERE MEDIA COMPANIES ARE
CONTROLLED BY COMPANIES WITH GREAT POLITICAL BIAS.
I'M
THINKING OF SINCLAIR, FOR EXAMPLE, BUT HERE IT'S A.M.I.,
AND OF COURSE AT THE TOP OF A.M.I. IS ONE OF TRUMP'S BEST
FRIENDS AND THAT'S WHY THEY ARE BEING PROACTIVE AND ALLEGEDLY
PAYING OFF PEOPLE FOR THEIR STORIES AND KILLING THE STORIES.
BUT AS ANA SAID, WHAT YOU HAVE IS WITH A HUGELY BIASED MEDIA
YOU HAVE MEDIA THAT'S MASQUERADING AS NEUTRAL BUT IT'S
ACTUALLY PRODUCING A HUGE POLITICAL BIAS, SO OUR ABILITY
TO TAKE IN INFORMATION IN THIS COUNTRY THAT REPRESENTS BOTH
SIDES OR ALL THE FACTS, ALL THE VARIOUS SIDES, THERE ARE MORE
THAN JUST TWO SIDES THE MOST OF THESE SITUATIONS, THAT IS
BLUNTED.
I THINK THAT'S EXACTLY THE ESSENCE OF THIS.
>>AND WE TALK ABOUT -- NOT WE, THE RIGHT WING TALKS ABOUT
LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS ON A REGULAR BASIS.
THE FAKE NEWS, IT'S THE
LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS, CONSERVATIVES ARE BEING CENSORED
-- I MEAN, IT'S PROBABLY THE MOST CLASSIC CASE OF PROJECTION
BECAUSE THEY ARE ACCUSING ESTABLISHED MEDIA OUTLETS OF
DOING EXACTLY WHAT THEY DO, RIGHT?
THIS WHOLE CATCH AND KILL
STRATEGY THAT NATIONAL ENQUIRER IS USING.
LOOK AT WHAT'S
HAPPENING WITH SINCLAIR BUYING UP ALL OF THESE LOCAL CHANNELS
AND RUNNING THESE MUST-RUN SEGMENTS WITH BORIS EPSHTEYN OR
WHATEVER HIS NAME IS, IT'S ABSURD.
THE SPREAD OF
MISINFORMATION IS SCARY, THE IMPACT WE ARE SEEING WITH THE
NATIONAL ENQUIRER TELLING STORIES THAT WOULD MAKE TRUMP
LOOK BAD, THAT IS SCARY.
NATIONAL ENQUIRER WAS A
PUBLICATION THAT DESTROYED JOHN EDWARDS'S CAREER.
>>THAT'S RIGHT.
AND PEOPLE MIGHT THINK IT'S THE NATIONAL
ENQUIRER, WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL?
BUT THAT TABLOID HAS LED A FEW
BIG STORIES, ON O.J.
SIMPSON THEY WERE LEADING THE PRESS
CHARGE THERE.
>>THEY ALSO UNDERMINED THE OJ SIMPSON CASE, OF COURSE, BY
PAYING WITNESSES WHO THEN -- ALTHOUGH THEN THE PROSECUTION
RATHER THAN PUTTING THOSE WITNESSES UP THERE AND ADMITTING
TO THE PAYMENT DECIDED NOT TO USE THE WITNESSES.
>>THAT'S RIGHT, THEY FELT BY TAKING THE MONEY THEY WERE
TAINTED IN SOME WAY.
BUT IN OTHER WORDS, IN CERTAIN AREAS,
AND THIS IS SORT OF A TABLOID STORY, HE FATHERED A CHILD OUT
OF WEDLOCK, THIS KIND OF THING, BUT THESE TABLOID-Y STORIES CAN
SINK A CANDIDACY AS ANA JUST SAID.
THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER
LEADS THE CHARGE ON THIS.
>>THE JOHN EDWARDS STORY I THINK WAS WHEN TO GET OUT, BUT I AGREE
WITH YOU, THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER HAS LESSENED THE VALUE OF
AMERICA, THEY ARE THORNS IN THE SIDE OF DECENCY AND GOOD PEOPLE
EVERYWHERE, IT'S A TERRIBLE, AWFUL PUBLICATION RUN BY
TERRIBLE, AWFUL PEOPLE.
YES, THEY'VE GOTTEN SOME STORIES
RIGHT.
THEY'VE ALSO BEEN SUED MANY TIMES, THEY ALSO GET
STORIES WRONG.
THAT SAID, INTERESTING THAT RONAN FARROW
TALKED TO A BUNCH OF SOURCES THAT A.M.I., A LOT OF THEM SAID
THEY HAD SIGNIFICANT SKEPTICISM ABOUT THE STORY THE DOORMAN WAS
PEDDLING, HE DIDN'T EVEN CLAIM TO KNOW, HE JUST HEARD IT, IF
YOU DO A LIE DETECTOR TEST THEY WOULD ONLY DETERMINE WHETHER
IT'S TRUE THAT HE HEARD THE STORY, HE DIDN'T KNOW WHETHER IT
WAS TRUE ANYWAY -- BUT ALL SIX OF THE SOURCES FARROW TALKED TO
SAID THAT NO QUESTION A.M.I.
WORKS TO SPIKE THE STORY.
AND
WITH EDWARDS TO THE POINT WHERE THEY COULD HAVE DONE SIGNIFICANT
EFFORT WITH TRUMP, IN FACT DAVID PACKER COULD HAVE USED HIS
RELATIONSHIP WITH TRUMP, THEY ROOTED AROUND IN EDWARDS'S TRASH
TO BE ABLE TO DO THE DNA TEST TO LINK HIM TO THE KID.
>>THAT ISN'T CREDIBLE.
LET'S HEAR FROM RONAN FARROW, HE WAS
SPEAKING ABOUT HIS STORY IN THE NEW YORKER ON CNN AND I
THINK THERE WAS SOME INTERESTING TIDBITS, TAKE A LOOK.
>>THE REPORTING SUGGESTS THERE WAS THIS SALACIOUS RUMOR OF AN
AFFAIR, POTENTIALLY A CHILD BORN OUT OF THE AFFAIR, LARGELY
BASELESS.
WE DIDN'T UNCOVERED EVIDENCE THAT THIS WAS REAL.
BUT
WHAT WE DID UNCOVER RESOURCES IN A.M.I., THE PARENT COMPANY OF
THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER, THEY ADDED A LIQUIDATED DAMAGES
CLAUSE TO THE DEAL WITH THE INDIVIDUAL THAT HAD THE DEAL
WITH THE COMPANY, SAYING HE WOULD HAVE TO PAY $1 MILLION IF
HE BREATHES THE WORD OF THIS, THEN THEY KILL THE STORY.
AND WE
HEARD THIS WAS A DIRECT ORDER FROM DAVID PACKER, HEAD OF THE
COMPANY, WHO HAS PROFESSED ALLEGIANCE TO DONALD TRUMP.
THIS
IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT ESTABLISHES A PATTERN, THIS IS
POTENTIALLY THE THIRD ILLICIT PAYMENT DURING THE ELECTION
CYCLE -- STORMY DANIELS, WHICH WAS A DIRECT DEAL WITH THAT
WOMAN TO SILENCE A STORY THAT SHE HAD, AND THEN KAREN
MCDOUGALL'S STORY, WHICH SHE FIRST TALKED TO US AS WELL,
AND ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS SAME COMPANY THAT OWNS THE
NATIONAL ENQUIRER, A STORY BEING CAUGHT AND KILLED.
>>AND MICHAEL COHEN ALL OVER THIS STORY AS WELL.
>>THAT IS SOMETHING TO KEEP AN EYE ON, OF COURSE WE WILL KEEP
AN EYE ON THAT AS WELL.
SO LET'S QUICKLY MENTION THE LIQUIDATED
DAMAGES CLAUSE, SO THEY PAID THIS DOORMAN $30,000 FOR THE
STORY, BUT IN THE CONTRACT THAT HE SIGNED IT INDICATED THAT IF
HE TALKED ABOUT THIS STORY WITH ANYONE ELSE HE WOULD BE FINED A
MILLION DOLLARS.
SO OF COURSE HE'S NOT GOING TO GO AROUND TALKING ABOUT THE
STORY, HE DOESN'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THE RAMIFICATIONS OF
SPEAKING OUT.
>>IF YOU ARE A DOORMAN IN A NICE BUILDING I THINK YOU CAN PULL IN
2.6 A YEAR.
>>ARE YOU KIDDING?
YOU THINK TRUMP IS THE ONLY GUY WITH A
SECRET IN THAT BUILDING?
>>WHEN IT COMES TO THE ILLICIT PAYMENTS, WHICH RONAN FARROW
MENTIONED IN THE INTERVIEW, HE'S OF COURSE TALKING ABOUT THE
PAYMENT MADE TO STORMY DANIELS, THEN HE WAS ALSO REFERRING TO
PLAYBOY MODEL KAREN MCDOUGAL.
LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
THAT.
ACCORDING TO CNN --
>>
>>AGAIN THIS IS RIGHT UP TO THE ELECTION, VERY CLOSE TO THE
ELECTION DATE --
>>
>>BY THE WAY, FARROW LOOKS JUST LIKE WOODY ALLEN, DOESN'T HE?
I
MEAN -- YEAH, THIS IS A PATTERN, WE SEE IN IT, IT'S NOW THREE
DIFFERENT STORIES.
I TELL YOU, STEPHANIE CLIFFORD, WHO IS
STORMY DANIELS, HER CONTENTION IS THAT SHE HAD A RELATIONSHIP
WITH TRUMP, THAT THEY WERE INTIMATE ONE TIME.
KAREN
MCDOUGAL HAD A NINE-MONTH AFFAIR, SO THAT NINE MONTHS OF
AN AFFAIR, LITERALLY DOZENS OF TIMES, WAS ONLY WORTH $20,000
MORE.
IT'S REALLY DIMINISHING RETURNS.
>>THAT'S A GREAT POINT.
>>130,000 FOR ONCE,
150,000 FOR NINE MONTHS, REALLY JUST DO IT ONCE.
>>I THINK IT'S INCONCEIVABLE -- THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS
RETURNS WHEN YOU SLEEP WITH THAT GUY, RIGHT?
THERE'S NO AMOUNT OF
MONEY, THERE'S NO AMOUNT OF ANYTHING.
>>I WAS JUST TRY TO FIGURE OUT, LIKE, WHAT IS THE SCALE?
AND
KAREN MCDOUGAL HAS TO BE A LITTLE BIT OF LIKE, COME ON,
MAN.
>>BECAUSE MCDOUGAL WAS LEGIT, FROM MAINSTREAM LIFE, THAT'S WHY
HER NUMBER IS LOWER.
STORMY DANIELS, IT'S RADIOACTIVE, SHE
IS A PORN STAR, LET'S PAY HER A BIG AMOUNT AND SHUT HER UP.
BUT
AS YOU SAY, NINE-MONTH AFFAIR, THAT'S A LONG TIME TO KEEP A LID
ON IT AND A KEY NINE-MONTH PERIOD.
>>CAN YOU IMAGINE IF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION DID THIS TO PROTECT
OBAMA?
HOW CONSERVATIVES IN THE COUNTRY WOULD REACT TO THAT?
BY
THE WAY, WE ON THE YOUNG TURKS WOULD BE JUST AS OUTRAGED IF
THERE WAS ANY MEDIA ORGANIZATION DOING THAT IN ORDER TO HELP A
DEMOCRATIC POLITICIAN WIN AN ELECTION.
>>YEAH.
AND IF THIS WERE PROVEN -- NONE OF THIS WOULD CAUSE ME
TO REMOVE TRUMP FROM OFFICE, NONE OF THESE THINGS, RIGHT?
BUT
YOU WOULD THINK THAT IN A NORMAL WORLD WOULD OUTRAGE
CONSERVATIVES, SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES WHO VOTED FOR HIM.
BUT THEY DON'T BELIEVE IT. AND MANY OF THEM BELIEVE THAT BARACK
OBAMA HAD HIS GAY LOVER EXECUTED.
>>THAT'S STILL A CRAZY CONSPIRACY I SEE.
>>WE KNOW THAT GUY
IS STILL ALIVE, WALKING THE STREETS.
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