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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Pecker: Trump, Cohen asked me how I could “help the campaign”

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Former tabloid publisher David Pecker is under oath and on the record revealing just how far Donald Trump went allegedly to protect his 2016 presidential campaign. But, when it comes to whether Trump committed a felony in the process, how damaging was today’s testimony? Plus, what Pecker said went down in the room in the infamous meeting in August of 2015 that could hurt Donald Trump’s case nearly nine years later.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0

Trump's relationship with the National Inquirer was even sleazier than it looked in 2016.

0:40.4

The lead starts right now. Former tabloid publisher David Pecker under oath and on the record

0:47.0

revealing just how far Donald Trump went, allegedly,

0:52.0

to protect his 2016 presidential campaign.

0:54.5

But when it comes to whether Trump committed a felony in the process,

0:58.1

how damaging was today's testimony.

1:00.1

And that infamous meeting in August 2015, what Packer said went down in that room

1:06.0

that could hurt Donald Trump's case nearly nine years later. Plus

1:10.5

Trump's legal team admonished in court today, scolded by the judge over social media

1:16.0

posts by the former president, the prosecutors say, violate a gag order.

1:22.2

Coming up, the tough decision for the judge deciding how to a Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start with our law and justice lead, a dramatic day of testimony in the New York hush money cover-up trial.

1:40.0

tabloid mogul David Pekker testified in front of his longtime friend Donald Trump,

1:44.0

revealing details about their, shall we call it symbiotic relationship and the

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