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Surrounded by reporters in the Oval Office Wednesday, President Trump refused to talk the recording
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Trump refuses to answer questions about secret recording with Michael Cohen
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Trump refuses to answer questions about secret recording with Michael Cohen
(CNN) — Presidential candidate Donald Trump is heard on tape discussing with his attorney Michael Cohen how they would buy the rights to a Playboy model’s story about an alleged affair Trump had with her years earlier, according to the audio recording of the conversation aired exclusively on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time.” The recording offers the public a glimpse at the confidential discussions between Trump and Cohen, and it confirms the man who now occupies the Oval Office had contemporaneous knowledge of a proposal to buy the rights to the story of Karen McDougal, a woman who has alleged she had an extramarital affair with Trump about a decade ago. Cohen told Trump about his plans to set up a company and finance the purchase of the rights from American Media, which publishes the National Enquirer. “I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David,” Cohen said in the recording, likely a reference to American Media head David Pecker. Trump interrupts Cohen asking, “What financing?” according to the recording. When Cohen tells Trump, “We’ll have to pay.” Trump is heard saying “pay with cash” but the audio is muddled and it’s unclear whether he suggests paying with cash or not paying. Cohen says, “no, no” but it is not clear what is said next. No payment was ever made from Trump, Rudy Giuliani, the President’s attorney, has said. Giuliani has previously acknowledged that the recorded discussion related to the buying the story rights. The recording, which was provided to CNN by Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis, was made in September 2016. “What is this about? This is about honesty versus false disparagement of Michael Cohen. Why is Giuliani out falsely disparaging Michael Cohen — because they fear him,” Davis said on “Cuomo Prime Time.” “What do they fear, Chris? Why am I representing him? They fear that he has the truth about Donald Trump. He will someday speak the truth about Donald Trump. The truth is that when Donald Trump said ‘cash,’ which Rudy Giuliani knows that only drug dealers and mobsters talk about cash, it was, you heard Michael Cohen … say what? ‘No, no, no, no.’” Davis later added: “Ladies and gentlemen, if you voted for Donald Trump, listen to the tape and ask yourself: Is Donald Trump lying when he said he didn’t use the word ‘cash’ and accuses Michael Cohen of using the word ‘cash’? Cohen has been disparaged. Cohen has been insulted and called all sorts of things by people around Donald Trump.” Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for Trump Organization, refuted that Trump was offering a cash payment. “Whoever is telling Davis that cash in that conversation refers to green currency is lying to him,” Futerfas told CNN. “There’s no transaction done in green currency. It doesn’t happen. The whole deal never happened. If it was going to happen, it would be a payment to a large company that would obviously be accompanied by an agreement of sale. Those documents would be prepared by lawyers on both sides.” Cash, in the conversation, was in reference to how a deal would be financed, Futerfas added. “The word cash came up in the context of the distinction between financing, which is referenced, and no financing, which means a full payment, a total one-time payment. That’s the context in which the word cash is used,” he said. “Anyone who knows anything about the company or how the President does business knows there is no green cash. Everything is documented. Every penny is documented.” Court filings said federal prosecutors have obtained 12 audio recordings from the FBI raids on Cohen earlier this year . CNN previously reported that Trump’s lawyers waived attorney-client privilege on the President’s behalf regarding the recording involving him personally. The discussion relates to whether Trump should buy the rights of the story from American Media, which paid McDougal $150,000 in August 2016 for her story about an alleged 10 month affair with Trump. The story was never published by AMI. In addition to discussing the McDougal payment, Trump and Cohen are overheard running through a list of potential legal issues, including contesting a New York Times request to unseal divorce records from Trump’s first wife Ivana as well as more mundane matters such as polling numbers and Trump surrogate Pastor Mark Burns. This story is breaking and will be updated. — Chris Cuomo, Kara Scannell and Eli Watkins The-CNN-Wire ( & © 2018 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.)
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‘Pay With Cash’: Lawyer Recorded Trump Discussing Buying Rights To Former Playboy Model’s Story About Alleged Affair
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – President Donald Trump blasted his former attorney Michael Cohen on Twitter for secretly recording at least one conversation between them. This comes after CBS News reported Cohen taped then-candidate Trump discussing a possible payment to Playboy model Karen McDougal , who claimed she once had a year-long affair with the future president. “Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) – almost unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client – totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!” Trump tweeted Saturday morning. Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) – almost unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client – totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 21, 2018 The two-minute phone call was made two months before the 2016 election, CBS News reported. Federal investigators uncovered the recording during raids on Cohen’s home and offices in April. McDougal spoke with CNN earlier this year after settling a lawsuit against the publisher of the National Enquirer, which bought the rights to her story but did not print it. She believes David Pecker, the man behind the tabloid and a friend of the president, killed her story to protect him leading up to Election Day. “There were real feelings between the two of us,” she said. If Trump or Cohen is directly linked to payments made to secure silence from women alleging affairs, there could be a violation of federal campaign finance laws. Sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News the recording was initially protected by attorney-client privilege. That was, until the client – Trump – waived that right.
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‘Inconceivable:’ President Trump Responds To Reports Of Cohen Recording
NEW YORK (CBSNews) — CBS News has learned that shortly before the 2016 election, attorney Michael Cohen secretly recorded a conversation he had with his client, Donald Trump. They discussed making a payment to a Playboy model, Karen McDougal , who claimed she once had an affair with the future president, CBS News Washington correspondent Paula Reid reports. The phone call was made just two months before the presidential election. Federal investigators uncovered the recording, which runs about two minutes, in April during raids on Cohen’s home and offices . The Justice Department is investigating Cohen’s role in paying women to stay silent about their claims of affairs with Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election. If the payments were made to help get him elected, they may be violations of federal campaign finance laws. McDougal says she began a nearly year-long affair with Trump in 2006. Just a few months before the election, the publisher of the National Enquirer purchased her story but never published it. “He always told me he loved me,” McDougal told CNN earlier this year. She told Anderson Cooper that she believed National Enquirer’s purchasing of the story was a favor for Mr. Trump in the last few months of the presidential election. The White House on Friday did not respond to CBS’ inquiries, but has repeatedly denied the affair, issuing a statement in February saying “this is an old story that is just more fake news. The president says he never had a relationship with McDougal.” Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis said in a statement “when the recording is heard, it will not hurt Mr. Cohen. Any attempt at spin can not change what is on the tape.” The president’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani , told The New York Times the recording also would not hurt his client. The New York Times first reported the existence of the tape of Cohen and Trump. Payments to women have become a topic the White House and Mr. Trump’s lawyers have had to address in recent months. In May, Giuliani revealed on Fox News that Mr. Trump repaid Cohen for a $130,000 payment Cohen made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the election in 2016. Daniels, like McDougal, claims to have had an affair with Trump. Giuliani insisted that there was no campaign finance violation in that instance. (© 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
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CBS News: Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Call With President Trump Discussing Payment To Playboy Model
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Davido, Simi & Wizkid Win Big At The Headies 2018
Velvety songstress Simi also won three awards Best R&B Single, Best Recording of the Year and Album of the Year joining Davido as the highest winners on the night. Trailing behind the duo was Wizkid who notched two awards Best Music Video and Best R&B and Pop Album awards. The Next Rated …
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#Headies2018: Davido, Simi steal the show
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HEADIES AWARD 2018: Olamide Wins Nothing As Davido, Wizkid, Simi Win Big (SEE FULL LIST …