is president biden saying? >> well, well, if president biden tried to leverage a restrictive abortion law that essentially ban most abortions after six weeks & is set to take effect next week and try to use that to put the state in play for democrats time, the unpopular abortion bans nationwide, his republican rival, donald trump, take a listen person, responsible with this nightmare, and he's acknowledged any brags about donald trump now because of this law, democrats are putting renewed focus on the scene and what they think is a politically salient issue. going to be an uphill it's challenge, especlly in a ste like florida that voted republican in e past two presidential elections. and one where the president has a wider gap against his republican rival walf priscilla alvarez in tampa for us, priscia, thank you very much into our viewers. thanksermuch for watchg. i'm wolf blitzer in the situatn room erin burnett

ouront starts right now >> i'd front next breaking news are brutal, beat down for trump using all credibility as the former chief of the national enquirer or reveals he was quote trump's eyes and ears during the presidential campaign plus george conway was in the courtroom today with trump. this is conway, a lifelong conservative is taking a major leap to help the biden campaign. he's going to tell you exactly what he's doing it's a big zap. >> and republica turningn for employment moscow marjorie, big time tonight. >> one senior senator putting the blame on marjorie taylor greene for the party losing in november, right? bulls-eye. let's go out front good evening i'm erin burnett& outfront tonight, we begin with the shutdown, but, judge, in trump's hush money trial telling trump's lawyers, quote, you're losing all credibility with the court. this is as they

were struggling to defend trump four, ten alleged violations of his gag order. and we're actually as i speak right now, on standby for ruling from judge sean after hearing the court watchers described as disastrous, those were the words that we heard for trump. now, let's just show you this sketch that shows how tense things got in the courtroom. the judge, again and again, pressing trump's legal team for evidence that trump's posts we're just responses to quote, political attacks. trump's team though, did not have a response to that. and merge sean and what was a dramatic admonishment told trump's team, and i quote him while i'm just telling you that you've presented nothing and i've asked you eight or nine times, show me the exact post that he was responding to and you have been able unable to do that even once? well, the result of this was trump visibly angry when he left court today so they can talk about me to they want to get a lie. but i'm not

i'm, sayyed of the gag order only bars him from talking about three specific categories of things. >> speaking publicly about potential witnesses, publicly about prosecutors, which does not include commenting on the judge, the district attorney, or staff members. so we can do all those things. just can't talk about witnesses or prosecutors can't speak publicly about jurors, by the way, for those jurors, if they were to go out and say something nasty about trump, they get kicked off the jury. so we are on standby for that gag order ruling at this moment, it comes as the former chief of the national enquirer, david pecker took the stand and trump's trial for the second day, and pecker admitted under oath that he had agreed to be what he called trump's isn't ears during trump's 2016 candidacy for the white house, he detailed how trump's lawyer and fixer michael cohen asked him to help the campaign specifically by doing this. finding a story about trump that was bad buying it from somebody and then never running it. so it was killed. it's called catch and kill. and also then promoting negative stories

about people running against trump or who trump did not like. and we actually have a special report later this hour detailing some of these negative stories you're going to want to see what trump was promoting about joe biden and others. everybody was seeing on the front covers of the checkout line. but we begin our special coverage this hour with paula reid, who is out front line i've outside the new york courthouses. paula, i know you will be every day during this historic trial. what are you learning about why prosecutors are starting their case with david pecker? >> pecker is the perfect first witness for the prosecution because he is able to lay out how he was working directly with trump and michael cohen to catch and kill negative stories about trump. and he's explaining to the jury how he was doing this, not just because he and trump were lifelong friends because he and michael cohen wanted to influence the 2016 election former national enquirer

publisher, david pecker, back on the witness stand today, where he shared details of his decades-long friendship with donald trump and how he eventually used his position to help trump in 2016 in an election under questioning from prosecutors, pecker described a meeting he had with trump and his former attorney, michael cohen in 2015, where they asked, what can i do and what my magazine could do to help the campaign pecker testified that he responded saying what i would do is i would run or publish positive stories about mr. trump and i would publish negative stories about his opponents. >> i said i would be your eyes and ears. he told the jury he saw the agreement as mutually beneficial. it would help his campaign and it would also help me. pecker said he began meeting with colon a minimum of every week. and if there was an issue could be daily. he said he would go directly to cohen when confronted with a negative story about trunk, the prosecution question packer in

detail about a doormat who tried to sell a story about trump allegedly fathering a child with another woman as trump sat in court and shook his head. pecker said he directed the editor of the enquirer negotiate a number, a price to buy the story and take it off the market the door man was paid $30,000 for the story, even though it later proved to be false, pecker told the court if the story got out to another publication or another media outlet, it would've been very embarrassing to the campaign pecker claim. if the story were true, it would probably be the biggest sale of the national enquirer since the death of elvis presley. but then admitted if it were true, he wouldn't have published the story until after the election court is not in session tomorrow, but pecker will be back on the stand thursday, facing more questions about the effort to catch and kill the story of karen mcdougal, woman who allegedly had a year affair with trump but then prosecutors are going to press packer on

why he didn't catch and kill the story of stormy daniels. and instead passed her story. often michael cohen, aaron. >> all right, paula, thank you very much. and i want to go now to soucie a who worked closely with david pecker at the national enquirer's parent company. elizabeth williams is also win it does the sketch artist who was in the courtroom with donald trump today. and of course has been throughout this trial. now you all know her and our legal experts, karen friedman, agnifilo, and stacy schneider. so all right. so great to have all of you. let me just start straight off with you. so you were pecker's communications chief at ami, right? so you worked with them, you saw him, you know how all of this worked in intimate detail? so pass her testified today, he told trump he'd be as eyes and ears during the campaign. so as you're seeing the transcript of exactly what he said today, what stood out to you as you heard pecker describe the way catch and kill worked, which was pretty amazing. >> so until now, it's only been speculated how it really worked. >> but clear really outlined it under oath today, how it will

play it out and the benefit to him. obviously, it was incurring goodwill with trump and having that access to him and vice-versa burring bad stories about trump highlighting his good stuff and bearing his enemies. so it was like a mutual in their minds, a win-win, i can help you. you helped me and that's pretty much how pecker operated all along. then why the inquirer has the reputation that it has. >> so stay seat to this. i know there was a key testimony for you about how trump to this agreement, this catch and kill agreement is stews talking about as as pecker testified today to harm trump's political opponents as well, right? so he would catch bad stories about trump and kill him. and then he would promote bad stories about people running against trump. packer testifies, quote michael cohen would send me information about ted cruz or ben carson and marco rubio. that was the basis of our story. and then we would embellish it from there. and then just so everyone understands what that meant, the ted cruz sex scandal, five

secret mistresses, bungling surgeon ben carson left sponge and patients brain. i remember that who doesn't remember that? right? there was maybe there was even some fake picture i right. >> with the sponge. okay. donald trump, healthiest visual ever elected what is the prosecution showing? jurors here okay. >> this is very strategic on the part of the prosecution and david pecker, who is just a background witness in this case actually, delta very devastating blow to the trunk defense because especially the part you're mentioning where there was an arrangement that michael cohen would, according to david pecker, would call him up after one of the republican debates. and whoever was doing the best and the debate, he would direct him my david pecker to run a devastating story about that person. and what's that? setting up the trial for the jury to see is the fact that trump allegedly

seems to have a pattern and history of gaining an unfair advantage during that election and i think that that point, although subtle today, is going to come back later on in the trial as it's the same theme that that trump is being tried on right now, unlawfully influencing the election and then covering it up through paying off stormy daniels and then just maybe the election interference case, it's putting that into the e. yes. so it's the same theme as what he's being tried for right now, allegedly. and i think that was a really subtle and good talking point later on for the de elizabeth, as you're watching and your sketches today, you can see trump looking at david pecker on the stand, right? that's what on for almost three hours. so when you're watching him, when we see most interested, when was he? i remember yesterday you were talking about showing his interests by him being at the edge of his i literally the way that you drew that you the oil pastel right. >> so what did you notice today? yeah today when he started out, he was doing that

closing the eyes thing, which i look at him through the video. the video screen my binoculars. i want to make sure he's really closing his eyes and he is closing his eyes i'm wondering. okay. he gives him a couple of glances, but then when they start talking about mcdougal can make geron mcdougal that he your long afar with the eyes are open, the arms start folding. >> i when he folds his arms. >> now that i've drawn them a bunch of time he folded his arms when he was arraigned in miami and he folded his arms several times during e jean carroll& that means something is not right with donald trump and he's now laser-focused on david pecker okay. because prior to that, i look at him quite a bit and he was somewhat paying attention. but the mcdougal testimony that seemed to really get to him that it

karen obviously, while this case is about payments made at for silence to stormy daniels and whether that that was a felony count in an election law karen mcdougal is very relevant to the story because she is a person who has a detailed, extensive affair. she says she had with the former president and david pecker and the national enquirer was obviously involved in getting rid of that one as well. >> yeah. i mean, the prosecution is painting this entire scheme as a criminal conspiracy. this is conspiracy between david pecker, donald trump, and michael cohen. and that they all got together conspiracy requires two or more people to get together, have an agreement and the agreement is to do something unlawful. and what they're saying is what they were doing that was unlawful, was they were unlawfully trying to influence the election. so this is all part of the scheme. the criminal scheme, and they have set up that there was a meeting where this was explicitly discussed, right. so even though this was a matter of as

you're saying, this is how things were done, that there was a meeting that they said, look, we're i'm running for president and this is what we're going to do. that's what the prosecution says happened. so pecker is not done yet. he comes back to the stand when trial resumes. so how do you think he will do under cross-examination without will be really any interesting test because he comes across as we've seen, very smooth and savvy. and let me just tell you what the facts are. he's never responded to the threats being attacked. their challenging his credibility, which he has worked with. did prosecution and the defense may prosecution rather made and look like the nicest guy in the world. you're going to see his true colors come out. he's a fighter and when he's attacked, similar to trump, he fights back pretty hard, which is why has this aggressive behavior and reputation throughout publishing that you don't mess with pecker, right? >> and this is going to be an awkward situation where he is the first witness brought by the prosecution not because he wants to be sitting there we

understand he and trump don't speak anymore, but it's a long friendship. you made a point of saying hi to his table yesterday. so this this cross is going to be very revealing. >> very, very revealing. and i think what the defense my prediction is, what they're going to do to clean up this mess that was made today because trump looked awful. is they will say to david pecker you've been approached by many, many dozens of celebrities through the every year and their attorney is trying to clean up bad stories or they've threatened you not to run stories about their clients or somebody famous because they're going to threatening to sue you. and i'll think they'll the defense will just say this is just tabloid journalism. this isn't trumped and go after the mainstream media and try to get them to do something different. this is not really consequential journalism i'm sure now require won't be happy to hear that, but yeah, they'll clean it up as best they can see if the jury bys. all right. so as this is happening today, karen, you also have the we are

waiting right now. we could get it right now. the gag order ruling coming down from judge merchan, whether trump violated the gag order nearly a dozen times in weitz and things he has said about people he's banned from saying things about potential witnesses, primarily among them today, it did not go well for trump, soy or the judge told todd blanche, then this is the quote that i mentioned at the top of the show. you're losing all credibility with the court. and then i've given you what, eight or nine opportunities to show me why he posed posted this in response to something political as you're alleging, and you have not answered that question once. and so how badly did this go for trump i think it went fairly badly for trump a lawyer has to make arguments, right. >> and the judge has said he expects and welcomes vigorous crossing or vigorous arguments on behalf of clients. but you can't step over the line and do things that are not credible. and that's what the

judge was signaling to todd blanche today. is that number one? this is a hearing. is your opportunity to present evidence. you could have presented donald trump could have said what he thought or what he meant or what he was trying to do. but for you to just make an argument without presenting that evidence that donald trump was, quote, trying very hard to comply with the court order or saying or saying that. the other thing that he said that i think really made the judge say you have no credibility with mirror, you are losing credibility. was when when when the defense attorney said look, the prosecution only asked for a couple of the tweets to be are the couple of the postings to be a violation. so therefore, they let other ones go. they must have waived the gag order, doesn't stand. that is not going to fly judge merchan's courtroom only he can say whether or not the gag order is imposed or whether it stands or whether it doesn't. and so the fact that he would make an argument like that trump's

trying to it without without more jokes. sean said that's ridiculous, and he's not which also justifies belief. i mean, he retweets things in does these things elizabeth, it was one sketch i just wanted to show that was a moment between trump, the judge, and trump's lawyer. very tense back and forth that you drew here. i mentioned it at the top of the program. we were talking about this gag order. what did you actually see here? >> what happens is in those situations is you're drawing people who are constantly moving and then you're seeing that this tension is building up more shawn's a pretty cool character. he doesn't get easily roiled up. but as blanche is continuing on this path of this argument, and merchants feeling like he's not being heard you see now we're sean's arm's going up, so i have to now add the arm to the body in the blanche's arm is moving in his hand. but these are all important gestures because they show actually what happened this weezer actual what they were

doing. and you've got a grab it because because it shows that tension, i mean, they were they were going at it. i mean, we're sean was not given up and neither was blanche so saying just so the personal and the psychology of it all, i think it brings it home to all of us. >> we all rely on the system as we should, but it is so much about emotion and psychology all right, thank you all very much. >> and next, longtime trump critic george conway, was there in the courtroom today, feet from the former president what he says was the most damni hit torump today. plus new details about what's for me, daniels is saying tonight about the hush money case and how threats to her have ramped up. just sent the trial started this week. >> we've exclusive new insight into stormy daniels thinking right now tonight, i had of being a potential witness and we're just moments away from a crucial vote to give ukraine that much needed and much delayed aid. >> one of the leading voices holding it up, quote moscow, marjorie republicans have now

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>> the reality of it is this, the fact is his supporters are allowed outside the courthouse, just the facts are so far in this trial, not many have showed up out front now, george conway, he watched trump's trial today from inside the courtroom. >> he has been inside many days so far, and he's joining me also to talk about his nearly $1,000,000 donation to president biden. he's about to headline a major fundraiser for the first time for the president tomorrow and talking about this here george publicly, you in tv for the first time. i just want to start with where you spent your day and you spend other days you know, coordinate, keeping people away from that. >> well, not that i saw when i was there, yes i mean, it's like i think his problem is that people aren't his supporters aren't willing to pay, pay the subway fare to go down all right. so you've been watching him closely for years and now you're their feet away from him. you're in the criminal trials, so you're in the room, you're watching every single thing said, he response, how it's handled, what moment struck you the most today. >> it struck me i mean, first

of all, the two moments, the shockley were one when the judge basically challenged trump's lawyer on the gag order and basically said you're losing all credibility and he was making blunt. todd blanche was making these arguments that just we're not even close to being anything that was in the zone of convincing or credible. i mean, arguing essentially that retweets don't count even though trump boasts that when he puts something on truth, social, it amplifies it and everybody learns about it. then the fact that he actually modified what the fox anchor said about juror number two. >> and the fact that i mean, it was just the fact he was arguing that retweets don't count the fact that he was arguing that we tweet invoked when someone says something gd, it it was somehow there was an exception to the gag order if somebody made a political attack on him, even if it was a witness. >> and this first of, all

there's no exception for that in the gag order, but you just can't attack witnesses and the witnesses have the right to say whatever they want because they are witnesses, they're not the criminal defendant. >> and also, was that he the witnesses were it wasn't anything. >> he was actually responding to the blanche couldn't point to what it was that trump was responding to political motivated attack 11, right? and he couldn't live one and points there was he more shan was saying, okay, but this the timing of what you're saying doesn't make any sense and it just was it just went downhill from there and i almost felt bad for todd blanche, but that's what happens when you represent a guy who's just the willing out. oh, my favorite moment there. and that part of it was blanche said, my client is trying very, very hard to comply with the order and that just set that you could just see the judge looking at blanche like oh, come on. you gotta me.

he's looking for ways around it. >> so we get that rolling any moment could kind of right. and i know it probably be a fine at this point. but obviously could end up with prison time if he keeps doing it. i mean, it's a serious thing. >> yeah. i think it's going to be it should be a fine. but then i think there has to be a warning like okay, we're going to put you in for an hour or two hours. you keep doing this and then it goes. >> all right. so look towards you. >> you're obviously a very well-known conservative lawyer and you've made your career and your reputation on that, right? >> for decades. okay. >> then you had a moment, you became a trump critic yeah, you did so at great personal cost. i had great, great, great cost in your in your family and your personal life. you have done it because you believe in it deeply. >> and now you are giving biden the maximum amount, but somebody can give joe biden $929,600 that you have earned over your life to a person running for president so how in the world did you get there? yeah. no, that's that's just an

amazing story to meet if you told me that i would do something like that and support a democrat and tomorrow an item we headlining a fundraiser in washington asking democrats to give to a democrat i would have said well, you know, that that's just pure fantasy that would never happen. >> but the evolution was just watching how republican party has become something that's completely unrecognizable. >> it's become a personality come it's become essentially one of the things that attracted people to the rock republican party in 60s, 70s, and 80s was a feeling that the left had become anti, anti-american& right now, the people who are anti-american, other marjorie taylor greene's with the world and the people in the house of representatives who were basically voting against who are voting and men trying to block aid to american allies because they want to help donald trump create an issue for the campaign on board. it doesn't even make any sense and it's just i

mean, this man, four years ago i voted him like tenth presidential election and i, for the first time, cast the vote for the democrat first time, first time in ten, want first time out of ten. and i did that because i felt that donald trump was a threat to the country, a threat to democracy. he doesn't care a whit about the country. he doesn't care a weird about the constitution, about the rule of law. and he wants to undermine the contralto country and its rule of law for his own political purposes. >> and that was before jay february 6, that was for he actually but georgia, what i'm also curious about, and i guess i put the emphasis on $929,600. most people can't imagine giving $929 to a person running for office, right? >> it's just it's just an ugly thing. they don't want it. >> so you're doing this and you don't even working your life as a lawyer. it's not children. you're choosing to

do this. >> and i know it didn't come. i mean, there was a moment where when you're driving your car driving my car and i'm thinking, okay, well, i'm going to ask these people to give money. i hate asking people to give money. i don't even like asking people to give me money that they actually omi and i'm trying to think, well, i need to i want to set an example. and i thought about what the law, you know, i've only given wants to a democrat, but that was only for a lunch for somebody who was being honored of law partner of mine. >> and i gave $30,000 to the trump victory fund in 2016 my wife was running the campaign and i was like, it was and i thought, well why am i doing this and i thought it's like this is for all the marbles. >> this man after what we saw on january 6, what we saw afterwards, and what we see him now saying, he basically wants to turn the government into a

vehicle for retribution against his political enemies, wants to turn he wants to turn the country into a banana republic, which he tried do four years ago. >> and i thought, you know there's nothing more important than this. and yeah, it's gonna come out of my kids inheritance. but the most important thing they can inherit is the living in a in a, in a constitutional democracy. and that was the moment that i said, i have to do everything i can. i'm going to give the maximum and i'm not going to regret it. i mean, i'll regret not doing it and i know emotional now, what how did your children react? yeah. well, my oldest daughter said, well, mind you write me a check for that amount is a you'll feel get it. you'll get something someday. you'll end up spending on one place anyway they understood they understood that you did this. >> well, you know, i don't i don't know. i don't know that. i don't know that the eldest one who had the conversation we

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congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, who is threatening to oust speaker mike johnson for supporting this aid. and tonight, in a remarkable moment nior republin senar is calling out his fellow republic saying that g shenanans could cost republicans to lose control of congress i think she's uninformed. >> she is a total waste of time. she has a horrible leader. xi is dragon, our brand down. she not the democrats are the biggest risks to us getting back to a majority tse are incredible words, sitting republican senator manu raju was oufront live on capitol hill. >> i mean, the bill is expected to pass, be signed quickly by president biden. it has been held up for months and months though the damage from that is very significant. now opened up a huge and on is unprecedented rift in the republican party. >> yeah, this is a major rest of it lives in times between the republican leadership and some members in their party

people on the hard right, both going after mitch mcconnell, the republican leader who helped to usher this package through the senate and is now put pushing this bill that passed the house. and of urse, mike johnson himself facing that threat that could call for his ouster that vote that could happen on the floor if marjorie taylor greene or any of those other hardliners decides to move forward with it a real debate within the republican party about the us presence in the world, the ai, so-called isolationist wing of the party versus those w support a more robust us president. mitch mcconnell very much on the side of a more robust us presence. mike johnson, increasingly has aligned himself with the mitch mcconnell wing of the party. the question though is where did this go from? here? you have some, some other republicans centers beyond tom toes are taking aim at the gop hardliners for going after mike johnson and warning them not to move ahead with such a plan about the vocations. if they do there are some folks who try and get themselves as many tweets, as many followers as

they can allow a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. turn your a6 toward the real adversary,eal polical mike johnsoni mean, my gosh if he's not good enough, no one's gonna be good enough but there are still so many questions about whether my johnson can hang on and whether that vote will actually happen. >> the house is on a recess week. this week, they get back next week at that point, marjorie taylor-greene could call for such a voter any of those can and will receive any democrats come to mike johnson's defense means that question all along. and then on the policy, aaron, after months of internal gop battling this bill, finally said to pass the united states senate tonight and pass today. >> it moved through a procedural today after 30 polygons voted to advance it, aaron, that is eight more than voted for this senate package about two months ago, mitch mcconnell arguing that he believes his party has turned the tide away from an isolation as well. >> swing of his party all

right. >> manu raju. thank you very much. and i want to go straight to the former republican congressman ken buck of colorado. he just resigned from congress in part because of the infighting in his party. congress. i'm glad to see you again. so you just heard thom tillis say green is failing. she could cost republicans the majority you and saying this for quite some time and unafraid been on afraid and so doing. but now, you've got thom tillis doing it what do you say to that? >> well, i think it is a conclusion that many are reaching in cap on capitol hill in ameri, frankly the idea that a republican believes that russia is a country that we should be promoting that anything having to do with the war criminal putin is a good idea to promote, is just a bad thing for america and the national security implications of what marjorie taylor greene is talking about are scary.

they are undermining our ability of fight. a very significant war on the mainland of europe, a war that we haven't seen a tank battle in europe since world war ii or since the 2014 when russia invaded previously, but that is significant and to have an american member of congress supporting russia i just, i didn't think i would see the day that that would happen so trump is now defending johnson and he had been unclear as to where he was going to come out of this, perhaps waiting to see where the winds blew. well, now they're blowing for johnson and so now he's defending him. and obviously that's not a very subtle hint, hint to perhaps who marjorie taylor greene. here's trump we have a majority of one. >> okay. >> it's not like he can go and do whatever he wants to do. >> i think he's a very good person. it's a tough situation when you have one, i think he's a very good man. i think

he trying very hard again, that's all knew. right. he was he was openly cavorting with marjorie taylor greene on her point of view. and now now again, the winds have shifted to think marty taylor greene is going to go forward with putting the motion forward to remove johnson given what trump is saying now or no i do. >> i think that she will probably filed a motion to vacate. i think that president trump came out against the very bills that are the basis for marjorie taylor greene's position and i think that ultimately mike johnson, speaker johnson will be in office as speaker on until the end of this year at a minimum, we'll see what happens with the election in november, but i don't think the marjorie taylor greene is gaining traction in what she's trying to do. >> but when you talk about the bills that she is against and the trump is against to as why she was against them. we're talking about this ukraine

bill, among others. it was actually on the show, congressman, you referred to marjorie taylor greene as moscow. marjorie. >> and it seems to have stuck. i know you're aware of this, but russian state television is now showing in new york post cover using your nickname for marjorie taylor greene moscow marjorie. >> and they are now taking it a step further, listened to what they said the little green marjorie taylor greene, you've just shown is a beauty. she is one of a few members of the us congress who is trying to look like a person in an old-fashioned sense of word. she is a blonde who wears white coats with the fur color. she has demonstratively heterosexual she's a beauty, a blonde demonstratively heterosexual. there's what they're saying, right? and this is as they show moscow marjorie on the new york post and the russian post, the russian press at the same time, it's going after speaker johnson openly insulting him just a few of the headlines, scatterbrain, brainwashed the look of a trade-off sure now, congress wanted me, you really started something here. it's

now a part of what's the discussion is over there. i mean, i'm just go showing everyone all the different places that marjorie taylor greene, as now appearing in russian television. >> what does this tell you about how important green is for point of view? >> and the republicans who are pushing that our to putin and russian state media well, i think that anytime the propaganda arm of a war criminal like volodymyr bouton is talking about how beautiful marjorie taylor greene is, or how smart she is. >> i think that would be an insult to any other american other than marjorie taylor greene? i don't know how she's going to react but i can tell you that mike johnson is very happy that the russians think less of him. let them talk about how, how bad mike johnson is. i campaigned, i went around my district and talk to people about the fact that vladimir putin ard me from going to russia every single

time i mentioned that i got standing ovations, having an enemy like vladimir putin is a good thing in america. >> all right well congressman buck, i appreciate your time and thank you very much next, stormy daniels. she's worried about her safety. she may have to testify force in this trial, her close friends speaking tour tonight will be with us. tonight. choose exclusive new information on daniels reaction to the case and do you remember this cover ted cruz's father linked jfk's assassination. >> well, tonight this special report and how national enquirer was helping trump's camp i brought in a short max protein with 30 grams of protein. >> those who tried me felt more energy and just two weeks here, i'll take that. >> sure. not to protein 30 grams protein one prime sugar, 25 vitamins and minerals, and a new fiber blend with a prebiotic have you heard sling tv offers the news you love for less weight you look and sound just like me. >> actually i am you because

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documentary, who's also a friend and confidant now exclusively telling out front, but daniel's also feels she has constantly being undermined as a witness in the case. daniel's is talking about how she is preparing for her moment in court with trump in her documentary stormy i'm more prepared with my legal knowledge, but i'm also tired, leg my soul is so tired sara gibson is a close friend and confidant of daniel's and she is sharing these new new details out front and sarah also is the directory of the document or you just saw that clip from stormy and sarah. i know you worked with daniel's for five years while you worked on this documentary. so you really have seen her life, seen how this it has impacted her life. and i know you've remained closed and you have just been in touch with her. what else does she telling you well, she a single working mother trying to make a living for her family and she's had to really put her whole life on

hold. >> all of her projects. i'll have her appearances i'll she prepares to potentially testify and they haven't told her when she's going to testify, but she's got to be ready to drop everything and traveled to new york. she's had to go several times to meet with the prosecutors, which is willingly done, but she's had to take time out of her schedule and time out of her life often sending her own money. she's not a wealthy person and she doesn't have 24 hours security detail and the threats on her twitter have been increasing and getting scary and i think she's just ready for all of this to be over so she can move on with her life i mean, there is a moment in your film where stormy expresses remorse and her specific remorse is for not being able to stop trump and she's she tells you that she wishes she had the opportunity in 2011 to get the story out before trump even ran for president, before this trial was even a possibility. and i

just wanted to play part of that clip in the conference frustration. she had with you to this day? >> i blamed myself and i have not forgiving myself because i didn't shut him down in that moment so maybe make him pause before you tried it with someone else the hardest part about all of this is i feel like i am partially responsible well for every woman that could have come after me very revealing thing to say you talk about these threats that are ramping up against or she has to be ready to just put everything down lever child infant flight in new york and be in a trial and no security how does she even deal with that right now it's really stressful. >> she's trying not to pay attention too much to the news because i think it really makes her anxious. i think that she is a person who has shown during the trial with michael avanade that she is more than

able to hold hold her own on the stand and she'll be a really good witness if she is called& she'll show up for it and she'll do a great job. but i think the lead up to it is really freaking her out. honestly want you to trump we've been told is called this trial a disgrace. >> and obviously in the past she has had some pretty pleasant things to say about stormy daniels and he or she is actually a clip, but audio of her talking to her former chief of staff, stephanie grisham, listen to this you go go, go. google and read it and any issue september or october what do we, choose who she shot the, born ocher stormy and that was stephanie wilson. winston woke off stephanie grisham, who was the chief of staff from a lot of trump, was on the show last

night. she told us melania is taking it every ounce of this trial looking for proof, looking for always there's something in an email that was sent, but it's proof of this. the actual affair itself, which of course is not what this trial is about. trial is about the cover up not the affair or the incident itself. >> so what is daniels reaction ben two millennia and her role in all of this? well, we didn't really interview stormy about melania we did interviews are me about what her life was like when she met trump and she was a single working director in the entertainment industry & was 27 years old and was just looking to make something of her life and her career and trump was 60 when she met him. he was married. he had a four-month son at home and she really feels like she isn't really the one that should be

apologizing here. and you know, she she hasn't really said anything much about millennia except for stormy does know what it's like to be a new mom having just had a baby and how emotional that time is in your life and we've talked a lot about how this must have been very painful for millennia, and how she deserved better her and didn't deserve this. >> well, as you point out, it is not stormy cross to bear. >> what happened& that situation. >> all right. well, thank you so much, sarah. i really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me back. >> all right. good to see you bye. >> next to special report on how these covers that you're looking at now we're part of the national enquirer's plan to help trump's campaign okay, everyone our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition are strength and energy ensure with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health and ensure complete with 30 grams of

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jason carroll is out front it is a tabloid smear and it is a smear that has come from donald trump and his henchmen in march of 2016, things had gotten really ugly between the gop front-runner, donald trump and the one who was seen as a possible threat, texas senator ted cruz, trump, taking jabs the cruises wife on twitter, donald, you're a sibling coward and leave heidi the hell alone the national enquirer ran a headline alleging crews had five extramarital affairs. this national enquirer story is garbage it is complete and utter lies. >> trump claimed he had nothing to do with it for next month. the enquirer goes after cruise again, alleging his father was connected to the assassination of john f. kennedy he doing with lee harvey oswald, right before the desk, that'd be for the shooting as trump alleges

that my dad was involved in assassinating jfk now, let's be clear this is nuts trump doubled down on the story and denied involvement with the tabloid. >> all i did is point out the fact that on the cover of the national enquirer, there was a picture of heart him and crazy lee harvey oswald, i had nothing to do with it, but it was not the only time the enquirer set its sights on one of trump's opponents also targeting hillary clinton, claiming she had strokes, cancer saying she had six months to live and even going after his former fixer, michael cohen after the hush money payment to adult film star stormy daniels became public and he fell from trump's favor. its propaganda, 100%. mark landsman directed the documentary scandalous, the untold story of the national enquirer for cnn films. i think the enquirer did a very good job of hering the lines of fact

and fiction. i think they were very instrumental in this dissolution of fact-based journalism in american culture and american media blurring the lines with salacious headlines and stories. but it's not been all wrong in 2070 enquirer did break the true story about john edwards, then democratic presidential hopeful of having an affair and fathering a child with a former campaign staffer. a point trump made when he defended the papers credibility years later, this was a magazine that frankly, in many respects should be very respected. they got o j, they got edwards and it should be noted that senator marco rubio was another one of those who was seen as a trump rival. >> he was another one of those targeted by the enquirer back in 2016, he was actually asked about that today. he basically blew it off saying that isn't that the same publication that said elvis was alive right