Thanks to at home for joining us this hour.

Let's just jump right in, okay?

Because here's the thing that everybody who hasn't been paying

a lot of attention to this is probably thinking today.

If this trial is about something that happened in the lead up to the election in 2016,

not the election this year, not the last presidential election, but the one before that.

If this trial is about something that happened in the lead up to the 2016 election

nearly eight years ago, why is it that it's only coming to trial now?

It turns out that is kind of a funny story.

Funny in a bad way, because it turns out this case springs specifically

from one of the worst and most dangerous revelations we ever had about the whole Trump presidency.

One of the worst things that happened while Trump was president, something that for me is absolutely front of mind when I think about what is the

worst that might happen in a second Trump administration and I will tell you why.

So it was almost exactly one year into Trump being president.

It's January 2018.

The Wall Street Journal broke the story.

That's something that looked really illegal happened in the presidential campaign

right before the 2016 election. What the Wall Street Journal reported in that January 2018

story is that the woman on the right here, a porn director and

porn actor named Stormy Daniels, right before the 2016 campaign she had

been paid $130,000 to not talk about what she says was a sexual encounter with Donald Trump.

And the alleged adulterous sexual encounter is one thing.

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