Transcript for Lawyers for Cohen, president dispute parts of recorded conversation

The secret recording of the president by his former fixer in personal attorney Michael Cohen. Tonight we hear the conversation about cash a former Playboy playmate and the owner of The National Enquirer. That conversation just two months before the election here's ABC's Chief Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas. Hope hicks was clear just days before the 2016 election the current campaign spokeswoman emphatically denied her boss. Had an affair would Playboy model Karen McDougal a decade before. Hicks called the allegation totally untrue McDougal had sold her story 450000. Dollars to the publisher. Of The National Enquirer the apparently bought it in order to bury it. A practice known as catch and kill pigs claimed a we have no knowledge of any of this and that covers face in secretly recorded two months earlier. A very different story emerges just. Sharpen his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen. Apparently discussing a plan to buy the rights of mcdougal's story themselves. From the enquirer is publisher American Media incorporated. Which is owned by Charles close friend David Pecker Colin proposes using the shell company to do the deal. I'm need to open up accompany. The war the transfer of all that info we'll carted off fresh statement. Here subject. I couldn't do that right like Kora says he's already set the wheels in motion with the top Trump Organization official and trump apparently mentions a price tag. 150000. Dollars the same amount AMR paid the former playmate I have spoken to Alan Weiss over about. How to set the whole thing off. Would. And funding. Yes but the next portion of the tape is in dispute. As the men discuss how to pay president Trump's current attorney Rudy Giuliani says the president wants to pay by check so there's a record. We look into it numerous numerous times and the transcript makes it quite clear at the end the president trump says quote. Don't they would catch. But Cohen's attorney says the recording shows the president actually wants to pay with cash we know that trump used the word cash. And people who use cash Rudy Giuliani knows when he's US attorney are either drug dealers or mobsters listen carefully and judge for yourself. When it comes hard for the financing. Which will be let's. Bought. So take all. I got no shot at that point the tape cuts out but tonight one thing is indisputable. The president is furious his former fixer secretly recorded their conversation what kind of lawyer would take a client he tweeted. So sat. The president clearly upset about this Pierre Thomas joins us from Washington here many people do not think their attorney is recording them. But the other major question in this story Donald Trump's campaign spokeswoman at the times of the president did not know. About the arrangement with Karen McDougal but this recording has been talking about money about the owner of a national inquire among other things. David there's a lot of debate about this tape but it does appear that despite those denials during the campaign. Then candidate talked with the very aware of the playmate controversy and effort despite her story. David Pierre Thomas live from Washington.

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