A secretly recorded conversation between Donald Trump and his then-attorney Michael Cohen in which the pair discuss a payment, apparently to buy the rights to the story of a former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Trump, was obtained and broadcast by CNN on Tuesday night.

The tape appears to confirm that Trump knew about a plan to buy the rights to Karen McDougal’s story, which American Media Inc. — the owner of the National Enquirer — bought for $150,000 in August 2016 and suppressed.

The recording also confirms a Wall Street Journal report last week that described the conversation, which reportedly took place in September 2016.

In the tape, in which the two are talking face to face, Cohen tells Trump he needs to set up a shell company to finance the purchase from American Media.

“I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David,” Cohen is heard saying, apparently referring either to Trump ally and American Media CEO David Pecker, or “David Dennison,” the pseudonym that was allegedly used to pay off a number of women who said they had affairs with Trump.

“We’ll have to pay,” Cohen says on the tape. Trump replies that they should to “pay with cash,” which Cohen dismisses, saying “no, no, no.” Parts of the conversation are inaudible.

McDougal has claimed she had a roughly yearlong affair with Trump in 2006, while he was married to his current wife, Melania Trump. In April, American Media settled a lawsuit that freed her to tell her story.

The payment was never actually made, and it is unclear why.

CNN said the tape was provided to them by Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, and was among the tapes seized by the FBI during a raid on Cohen’s offices earlier this year. Trump has waived attorney-client privilege regarding the tape.

In November 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Enquirer bought McDougal’s story and quashed it as a “catch and kill” tactic. At the time, Hope Hicks, then Trump’s presidential campaign spokeswomen, denied Trump played a part.

“We have no knowledge of any of this,” she told the Journal, adding that the allegation of an affair was “totally untrue.”