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Holt: A New York grand jury has just voted to indict

former president Donald Trump.

It's the first indictment ever of a former U.S. president

and could have a major impact

in the 2024 race for the White House.

Man: Trump's attorney has been told

the indictment relates to hush-money payments

made during the 2016 presidential election

to porn actress Stormy Daniels.

DeSantis says Florida will not assist

in an extradition request.

Ugh. Let's pack.

Man #2: The judge did say to Mr. Trump,

and I'm quoting now,

"Please refrain from making comments

that have the potential to incite violence."

**

Daniels: I have been just tormented for the last five years or so,

and here I am. I'm still here.

Blade: What are we doing?

Are you fucking filming me?

I've been traveling the world to speak at universities.

It's not something that you think would ever happen

in your lifetime, coming from porn.

Man: We're very, very lucky to have Stormy Daniels.

[ Applause ]

Daniels: People want to believe what they want to believe,

no matter what.

I really wanted to use my platform

to prove that I could not be bullied,

that women could not be quieted or hushed.

Woman: Stormy, with the recent indictment,

is it dangerous to keep speaking out in public?

You know, there's that saying, "hiding in plain view."

If I hide and cower away, it just sort of feeds the bully.

So it's just going to make it worse.

Blade: Where are we? Daniels: Where are we?

Blade: Where are we?

I don't even know anymore.

Man: Donald Trump is facing criminal charges.

He's already suggested there would be destruction

and violence if this happened.

So people will be holding their breath

now these charges have been brought.

Daniels: At first, when I spoke out, you'd never saw my name

that didn't say "porn star" in front of it.

Because we're not considered human.

Because of that, people thought I couldn't

possibly be telling the truth.

Man: Back the fuck up!

Daniels: That was the real reason why,

at the end of the day, I decided to come forward.

**

Okay. I'm ready. [ Chuckles ]

**

Gibson: So let me know when we're good to go.

Man: I'm ready. [ Clapperboard clacks ]

Gibson: Okay, let's do this.

Stormy, introduce yourself

and tell us why you're doing this documentary.

**

Daniels: I am Stormy Daniels, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Adult-film star, writer, mom,

pain in the ass, idiot who can't keep her mouth shut.

[ Laughing ] I don't know.

Flowers, or just the usual?

That one. Just the usual.

This one will look really good on you, yeah.

As long as it's not red.

Yeah. [ Chuckles ]

You're so much better at this than me.

[ Chuckles ]

Daniels: I am here today to tell my story.

And even if I just change a few people's minds, that's fine.

If not, at least my daughter can look back on this

and know the truth.

Man: Take one, marker.

Daniels: And...

action.

In 2018, before the story broke,

I was transitioning out

from being in front of the camera to behind.

We can see Jake get up from his desk.

So I want to be here.

I was finally getting recognition.

I had just become the second-highest-paid director

in porn.

Make sure that you go that way.

I was writing and directing between 10 and 12 movies a year.

We're gonna do six and eight first, actually.

And I started working on a horror film,

which was my dream.

And I had numerous dance bookings at strip clubs

across the country.

I was only gone for like five days a month.

Otherwise, I was home with my husband and my daughter.

I lived in what I considered to be my dream home in Texas.

My neighbors had no idea that I was a porn star.

What was really, really important to me

was to be a good mom.

**

I grew up in this pretty rough neighborhood in Baton Rouge.

Lots of drugs, a lot of violence.

We used to hear gunshots and stuff all the time.

I was basically white trash.

I have a few pictures of me, of my dad.

Like, there's an old picture of me and my dad.

This is when he was rocking the the porn stache.

This is my dad teaching me how to drive a boat.

He never wanted to have a child.

He was very transparent about that with my mother.

She got pregnant on purpose because she wanted to be a mom,

and she wanted to have his baby, which I understand.

But, also, you shouldn't take that right away

from the other parent.

This is one of the only pictures I have of me and my mom.

My parents split up when I was 4.

After my dad left, my mother sort of changed.

I think it broke her heart. She was married a couple times.

None of them were great.

And she just became a very neglectful parent.

She never, like, beat me or anything like that,

but she would disappear for a long time,

and then the power got cut off.

Being not a repetition of my mom,

that's something really, really important to me.

The last time I talked to my dad, I was 17.

I hadn't seen him or spoken to him since then.

But he married my stepmom, Susan,

who gifted me with my love of horses.

**

My first horse show.

I started riding horses when I was 11.

It gave me, like, an outlet.

Was able to teach lessons

and work exercising other people's horses.

So it was also a way to make money.

And I just feel like it gave me a sense of control.

I wanted to be a veterinarian first.

I got a full scholarship to Texas A&M

for veterinary medicine.

But blessing in disguise that I did not become a vet

because I would have gone after somebody who hurt an animal,

or I would be on "Hoarders,"

because I would have all of the horses.

And that's kind of also the reason why I started dancing,

because I had a horse to feed.

When I was 17, I went to some party,

and this girl pulls up

and she's got this brand-new purple Camaro,

which in '97, in Louisiana, is a purple Ferrari.

**

But I was like, "Oh, my God.

Did you get that for graduation?"

She's like, "I bought it for myself."

And I was like, "What do you do?"

She's like, "I'm a dancer.

You should come by and see me at work one day."

Fast-forward a couple weeks later,

I got to the club.

They were like, "You want to do a guest set?"

And the next thing I know, it was basically that door opening,

it was like, pbt!, and I was out on stage,

and I made more in that 30 seconds

than I did in two weeks of shoveling horse shit.

And I was like, "This is my dream.

Do you know how many horses I could have?"

One of my first modeling shoots.

This is before I ever did porn or moved to L.A.

**

I never wanted to be a mainstream actress.

That's the running joke is that people who do porn

failed as actresses.

When I started dancing more and more,

I bought my house, I bought my boobs.

And then, my friend was going to California to do a shoot.

I went to set with her, and, you know, I had big boobs,

so they thought I did porn, and I was like, "No, no, no, no."

And they wanted to do some test shots.

Five days later, the owner of Wicked wanted to meet with me,

and they offered me a contract.

I didn't even know what that meant.

I remember a phone call I got from her in 2002.

She was approached by Wicked Pictures.

She was a little hesitant, and she wanted my opinion.

And I told her, "Stormy, this is your opportunity."

She used all of her abilities to pull herself up

by her bootstraps and get out of Baton Rouge.

This is on the side of my first Wicked movie.

It was called "Heat."

I had such a huge, long career

where I was never asked to do something I didn't want to do,

especially with my body or sexually.

King: She had a strategy.

She wasn't just a pretty face who wanted to be famous.

No, she wanted to be a director, she wanted to be a writer.

What a way to start. Right, guys?

She had vision.

She's a disturbingly smart porn star.

King: At Wicked, it was like, "What can we do different

so that women can have it be their fantasy,

not just his fantasy?"

Action.

King: And we were successful in large part

due to the movies that Stormy directed.

[ Indistinct talking ]

Daniels: In 2006, I was young and naive and single,

and I had no idea what was about to happen.

Man: Love you!

Daniels: I was working at a charity golf tournament

in Lake Tahoe in 2006.

The company I worked for, Wicked Pictures,

had sponsored a hole,

which meant that, you know, the golfers come around,

we give them water. We had a table and a gift room.

That day, I took pictures with other celebrities

that are exactly the same as the picture of me and Trump.

Donald Trump was basically just a goofy reality TV star.

Mr. Trump, here you go. Three medium pizzas, $5 each.

Tell you what.

I'll counter that offer with an even better one.

Here's the deal. You give me those three pizzas,

only I'll give you just $5 a piece.

Daniels: I knew him from "The Apprentice,"

which I had never actually watched,

but there was commercials and billboards, obviously,

and from a P.R. stunt he had done on, like,

WWE Wrestling.

Announcer: The battle of the billionaires!

Daniels: I knew who he was from those things,

but I didn't know him personally.

And who would really take him seriously?

Look over here, Bridget.

He was a playboy.

And he was used to getting his way.

**

When Donald Trump invited me to dinner, I said, "Fuck no."

He was 60, and I was 27, just doing my job.

But I talked to my publicist, and he was like,

"I think you should do it. Just -- Just go.

At least you'll get a good laugh out of it.

You have a good story."

We were supposed to have dinner

at one of the restaurants in this very nice hotel.

I was a little bit early, but he said, "Just come up.

We'll meet up here, and we'll go down."

So that's how I ended up going up to his room.

**

I walk in, but he wasn't dressed for dinner yet.

He was in black silk pajamas, which I promptly made fun of him

for and told him to go put some fucking clothes on,

Hefner wanted his PJs back, and he complied.

**

This hotel room was bigger than my apartment.

It wasn't like I walked into his room and sat on the bed.

We did actually have a good conversation.

We had this rapport that wasn't sexual at all.

He didn't ask me about sex or who I like.

He wanted to know the business side

and my visions as a director.

And I actually signed a copy of my movie,

"3 Wishes," for him that I wrote

and directed and starred in,

but he wasn't interested in the sexual performances.

It was all about business.

And we had water. Nothing else.

**

Did not get any bad vibes or sexual innuendos or nothing.

He said, "You're actually really smart."

Somehow the conversation about "Celebrity Apprentice"

came up, and his angle was, "I'll get a lot of attention

for putting this blond adult actress on TV."

And I was like, "NBC would never let me on television."

And that's when he's like, "Every season,

I get to pick one person that they can't overrule.

It's my wild card."

**

He spun into me as, "Well,

you want to be a mainstream director,

you want to direct music videos and horror movies,"

because we had talked about that,

and I said, "Yeah." He goes, "Well, this is a chance

for you to be on TV and show people

that you're not just what you look like."

He told me I reminded him of his daughter.

I felt like he was being sympathetic to me.

Ivanka is beautiful, and she's blond,

and I'm sure she's had people assume that she's an idiot.

But I felt like, as this father figure,

who has watched his daughter be treated

a certain way, could identify with me.

I thought we had this mutual respect.

**

Which is why I was so crazy

when, having no red flags whatsoever in a conversation,

I came out of a bathroom to find myself cornered.

**

I don't remember how I got on the bed,

and then, the next thing I know,

it was humping away and telling me how great I was.

It was awful.

**

But I didn't say no.

**

At the time, I was doing a lot of photo shoots in L.A.,

and Trump had this uncanny knack for calling me

when I was in the makeup chair.

He was calling me at least once a week, sometimes more.

Profess his love, begged to see me again,

call me "honey bunch."

It's not a secret. It never was.

Donald Trump was obsessed with crafting his public image

as sort of a great entertainment spectacle.

He had spent years trying to perpetuate the narrative

in New York tabloids that he was this very in-demand man.

During his first marriage to Ivana Trump,

he was leaking to the tabloids about the affair

that he was having with Marla Maples.

I think it was very important to him

and remains very important to him

to be just surrounded by beautiful younger women.

Daniels: I met with him several times.

Five or six.

But the only time we had sex was that first meeting.

When I met Trump at the Beverly Hills Hotel,

he sat next to me on the sofa.

He was obsessed with watching Shark Week.

He said, "I love your nose.

It looks like an eagle beak. Regal."

I'm like, "That is not a fucking compliment."

Can't forget that.

One of the specific things he said,

he's like, "I donate to charities,

and people hit me up all the time to want me

to make donations and money," and he goes, "And they're fine,

they're good because they're tax write-offs.

But I would never give a dime to a shark rescue."

He hates sharks.

I would say it's a phobia.

Trump wanted to have sex,

but I lied and told him I was on my period

so he wouldn't try.

[ Camera shutter clicks ]

He would invite me to things.

I blew him off way more than I said yes.

It's a vodka that people really like,

and as you know, it's taken off like crazy.

Man: Say hello.

Daniels: Hello.

Man: Introduce yourself.

I'm Stormy Daniels.

So, Stormy, when's your next mainstream appearance?

Um, "Knocked Up." It'll be in theaters in June.

Daniels: Trump called me when I was on the set of "Knocked Up."

That's where I met Seth Rogen.

Seth!

Now, that's how you get pink eye.

Rogen: I've known Stormy Daniels a long time.

Uh, and at the time, when you ask a porn star

who they've been sleeping with

and the answer was, "Donald Trump,"

it was, like, the least surprising thing

that she could have said.

From my memory, we were like, "What's up with the hair?

Like, what's going on with the hair?"

And she was like, "Oh, I asked him about the hair."

He said to her that he had had a dream like, uh,

Samson and Delilah

and that he, like, felt as though his power,

like, rested in his hair, and that if he lost it,

he would lose his, like, power and his stature.

And that's why, even though he knows it's ridiculous

and like, holding -- you know, not --

you know, like, objectively not passing

all the -- the check marks,

you would want a head of hair to pass,

to him, that is preferable than cutting it off

because he has, like, superstitions about it.

Okay. Listen to this debacle.

"The Celebrity Apprentice"

was still being dangled in front of me.

I just didn't want it to be for nothing.

And this went on for like six months.

Trump called me finally and said, "I've got some bad news,

and I don't want you to be mad at me,

but I can't put you on 'Celebrity Apprentice.'"

I was relishing in the "I told you so"

and kicking myself.

There was no reason for me to take his calls after that.

I thought it was done.

And then someone had told the story

about me and Trump to In Touchmagazine in 2011.

If I decide to run,

and that's a big decision for me...

Nuzzi: In 2011, Donald Trump had been sort of promoting the idea

to run for president, and sex still sold.

The story about him cheating on Melania Trump,

it would be threatening to his public image

in a way that it really wouldn't have been

before he got into presidential politics.

That's a great picture. Where the hell did you get this?

Nuzzi: But now the story of Stormy Daniels

probably seemed like it would be a blockbuster.

I had just given birth, and someone who knew me well

is definitely who told the story,

because they have 90% of the information correct.

I will probably never know who it was.

I still said no.

Then I was told,

"Well, the story is gonna come out anyway.

You have two options.

Let it come out anyway or take control of it,

correct some of the facts, and make some money off of it.

Otherwise, someone who's betrayed you

is going to get the money."

So I said yes. And that's how I met Gina.

Nuzzi: Gina Rodriguez is a former porn star herself

and a publicist, and she sort of acted

like Stormy Daniels's agent.

**

The publisher said that I had to take a polygraph test.

I passed 100% with flying colors.

**

But in May of 2011,

I was with my daughter,

and I was threatened by someone I didn't know in a parking lot

about the Trump story.

I was very shook.

I did not go to the police because I was terrified.

So I just didn't say anything.

And then the story was never mentioned again.

I definitely slept better after that,

knowing that it was killed and never coming out.

**

**

Trump: I am officially running

for president of the United States.

At this point, Trump is top of the heap

for the Republican nomination for president.

Woman: Save us! Save us!

Palazzolo: Stormy's thinking about the liaison with him

and whether it would be worth it to sell the story.

Daniels: When Trump had announced

that he was running for president,

I really thought that it was

just another one of his P.R. stunts.

I wasn't worried about it at all

because he had told me he never wanted to be president.

But then Trump got the Republican nomination,

and that's when shit got real.

Palazzolo: So in April of 2016, Gina starts making calls.

One of the first that she makes is to The National Enquirer,

looking for like $200,000, $250,000.

Nuzzi: The National Enquirerwas owned

by American Media, Inc., also known as AMI,

and the C.E.O. of that company at the time

was David Pecker, a friend of Donald Trump's.

Palazzolo: Over the years, David Pecker and Donald Trump

developed this sort of transactional relationship.

And David Pecker agreed to help Trump

by intercepting negative stories about him,

like the nine-month affair that he had had

with a former Playboy Playmate, Karen McDougal.

AMI paid Karen McDougal $150,000

in exchange for her story about her affair with Donald Trump,

and the story never came out. It was a catch-and-kill.

**

Daniels: My friend was like, "You might actually have a problem.

I don't want to scare you,

but based on the things you've told me,

now you're the whole Republican Party's problem.

And they like to make their problems go away."

A recording of Donald Trump

made more than a decade ago has surfaced.

It is lewd. It is vulgar.

And we caution you, you won't want young children to hear it.

Palazzolo: The "Access Hollywood" tape

immediately gave Stormy's story more salience.

The campaign is more sensitive

to any kind of news coming out about Trump that's negative.

And so now The National Enquirer,

they're very much interested in the Stormy story.

When Cohen finds out about her story,

he initially goes to David Pecker,

hoping that, like, Pecker is going to kill it.

And Pecker's like, "Not this time."

You know? "No."

**

Daniels: I was very relieved when Gina started reaching out

and offering me the chance to keep it quiet.

I was fucking terrified.

I mean, people have been suspiciously killed

for political reasons.

It was really about two things --

trying to keep the story from coming out

so that it would not hurt my husband and my daughter

and I wouldn't lose my life,

and that there would be a paper trail and money trail

linking me to Donald Trump

so that he could not have me killed.

All I had to do was sign this piece of paper

and collect $130,000.

[ Applause ]

Pence: It is my high honor to introduce to you

the president-elect, Donald Trump.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Trump: Ours was not a campaign,

but rather an incredible and great movement.

[ Cheers and applause ]

**

Man: Breaking news tonight -- The Wall Street Journal

reporting that a lawyer for President Trump

arranged a hefty payment to an adult-film star.

Woman: The agreement reportedly required Stephanie Clifford,

who goes by the name also as Stormy Daniels,

to stay quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump.

Woman #2: This House is listed as the triple-X actress's home.

Daniels: When The Wall Street Journal

story broke, there was press in our front yard,

they're beating on the door.

Our daughter answered it,

thinking it was her little friend,

and someone shoved a camera in her face.

My daughter couldn't go out and play.

Glen couldn't leave the house.

Man: Stormy, did you touch Donald Trump's penis?

I know you don't want to know about me,

just want to know about her. So why do you --

Why are you even talking to me?

**

There was no knowledge of any payments from the President,

and he's denied all of these allegations.

We're hearing old news from a stripper porn star.

Daniels: I think the Twitter thing,

I could deal with any of it

because I have pretty thick skin.

People called me just a whore or whatever.

But the only name anyone's ever called me

that really upset me is a liar.

**

They were saying, I made up these lies about Trump

to make money,

but I was under the hush money NDA,

so I was not able to respond about anything at all.

But Jimmy could.

Please welcome Stormy Daniels.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Do you think the president is watching right now?

I like to imagine him...

I don't want to imagine him.

Kimmel: We had Stormy booked on the show,

and she had a pretty good sense of humor.

But I remember that she was fearful

that she would violate her nondisclosure agreement.

I know you can't answer any questions

because of this NDA that you don't have, but...

Stormy puppet perhaps can answer some questions.

I remember that she was fearful, in general.

I think that that made sense. You know, you made an enemy

out of the president of the United States.

And look who's here with us. It's Donald in his underpants.

[ Cheers and applause ]

It's fun to make fun of Donald Trump. It is.

Stormy, you look fantastic.

Welcome to the golf tournament.

But his followers, these people that he doesn't care

about at all, some of them are very sick.

And all it takes is one of them to do something

that could really ruin your life.

It seems like she's been on the losing end of this deal

from day one, and that's a shame,

because one of the two people involved is telling the truth,

and it's not Donald Trump.

Cooper: The New York Times is now reporting

that Michael Cohen, the President's lawyer,

says he paid the $130,000 out of his own pocket.

Nuzzi: The hush money NDA should have prevented her

from speaking publicly

about Donald Trump and their relationship,

and it should have also prevented Trump

from speaking publicly about it.

But then, a month after the story broke,

it was reported that Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen,

was shopping a book proposal to potential publishers

in which he promised to tell all about the Stormy Daniels saga.

As Stormy saw it, the book proposal violated the NDA,

thus rendering it null.

This meant that he was attempting

to profit off of her story

when she couldn't even comment on it publicly.

She couldn't defend herself.

She couldn't give her version of events.

She was furious.

Daniels: Cohen was exploiting me and using me to make money,

and I had just fucking had it.

I don't need anyone to speak for me.

Nuzzi: And so she hired a lawyer with the hope

of getting out of the NDA.

King: Stormy Daniels has a new attorney.

His name is Michael Avenatti.

Woman: The porn star is suing the President.

Stormy Daniels hoping a judge will rule

that nondisclosure agreement is not valid.

Melber: She is suing this time not for money, she says,

but for freedom, for freedom of speech.

Our position's clear. He never signed the agreement,

even though he knew all about it,

and therefore she's free to speak.

Avenatti understood how to play outside of the rules,

so he drew Trump into a conflict that elevated his client,

Stormy Daniels, and himself.

I don't know, man.

Man: No thoughts on it?

10 days after Stormy filed a lawsuit to get out of the NDA,

Trump struck back with his own lawsuit.

Man: Donald Trump and his personal legal team firing back

at Stormy Daniels, seeking more than $20 million in damages.

He was seeking $1 million for each time

that she allegedly violated the contract.

Melber: Donald Trump and a lot of other people

who use the legal system this way understand

that if you're poor enough,

a money penalty might ruin your life,

bankrupt your family forever, make you homeless.

Donald Trump will fight a 30-front war.

He's never cared about looking like the bad guy.

Kimmel: Meanwhile, there are new developments

in the "Hussia" investigation -- that, of course,

being Stormy Daniels, the adult-film star who may...

She started a GoFundMe to support her legal bills.

And I decided we were going to mention it on the air.

So now you can give money to a porn star

just like the president of the United States.

Man: She's the porn star making headlines across America.

Now Stormy Daniels is telling her story on "60 Minutes."

I was offered a lot of money when the story first broke,

and I chose to do "60 Minutes" because it wasn't paid,

which meant nobody could say I did it for the money.

**

Man: Tonight on CBS, produced with "60 Minutes,"

an interview people waiting for.

Stormy Daniels tells her story.

Let me grab that, actually, real quick.

Kayla: Is it on?

Not yet.

Hey, can she go play with Paul?

No, I don't want her going outside.

There could be press or something out there.

It's not safe for her to go out right now.

Nicks: How much does she, like, understand what's going on?

She doesn't know specifics about what's going on,

and that's the only problem about

we have to keep the TV off,

because people keep saying porn starStormy Daniels,

and I'm not ready to explain what porn is because

she doesn't know what sex is.

A couple years ago,

my daughter saw me packing my feature-dance costumes,

and probably a couple weeks later, she comes in,

and she's like, "I know what you do."

And I said, "Oh. What do you think I do?"

And she goes...

"You're a spy, and those of your costumes."

I will guarantee you this.

She will know everything before someone else can tell her.

That's the most important thing.

Meanwhile, my husband, this is what he just texted me.

Because he knows, in my moment of weakness, when he said,

"Can I have --" Just buy it! Go away!"

Kayla: Stormy Daniels's name is currently number one on Twitter.

Nicks: Trending -- Trending number one.

Trending number one.

All right. And "60 Minutes" is second.

I can really appreciate the witty, like, memes.

Even if they're negative or derogatory towards me,

I can't help but --

Like, if they're well done... Right.

...and witty and funny, I can't help but laugh.

I don't know what that says about me.

Everybody's tweeting about how they're having,

like, Stormy Daniels viewing parties.

We're ready to root for and cheer on

and watch Stormy Daniels.

Thanks, everybody, for coming!

Daniels: Yeah, a bunch of gay bars are having, like,

dress-up stuff.

Stormy Daniels is breaking the Internet.

Man: "60 Minutes," Stormy Daniels tells her story.

Nick: Here we go.

Cooper: A week and a half before the 2016 election,

Donald Trump's personal attorney paid a porn star

named Stormy Daniels

to keep quiet about her alleged relationship

with the Republican candidate for president.

You had sex with him? -Yes.

Did you want to have sex with him?

No. But I didn't --

I didn't say no. I'm not a victim.

I'm not --

It was entirely consensual.

Oh, yes.

But in May 2011, Daniels agreed to tell her story

to a sister publication ofIn Touch magazine.

The story never ran because Michael Cohen

threatened to sue.

Daniels says she was never paid,

and says, a few weeks later,

she was threatened by a man who approached her.

A guy walked up on me and said to me,

"Leave Trump alone. Forget the story."

And then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said,

"A beautiful little girl. It'd be a shame

if something happened to her mom."

And then he was gone.

Avenatti: This is about the extent.

That Mr. Cohen and the President

have gone to intimidate this woman,

to silence her, to threaten her,

and to put her under their thumb.

It is thuggish behavior from people in power,

and it has no place in American democracy.

A lot of lady boners going on right now.

Oh, yeah.

Melber: New reports tonight show it was the most watched episode

in over a decade -- 22 million people watching it.

Daniels talking all about Donald Trump.

With respect to that interview,

I will say the President strongly,

clearly, and has consistently denied these underlying claims.

And the only person who's been inconsistent

is the one making the claims.

**

Nuzzi: In the aftermath of Stormy's "60 Minutes" appearance,

the White House went on the defensive.

They attacked Stormy's credibility,

and they said that the encounter with Donald Trump

at Lake Tahoe never happened.

Daniels: After "60 minutes," the backlash was awful,

especially from Trump supporters.

I had these crazy messages and tweets.

And I was freaking out.

**

Daniels: This car fucking sucks.

There he is.

Call 911.

What the fuck are you doing?!

Call the police.

Yep. Police are coming. Congratulations.

Nicks: When I met Stormy, she was convinced that

she was living in the last weeks or months of her life.

It sounds insane, and it is,

but she was also, like,

suing the president of the United States.

I mean, in the middle of a kind of -- the kind of

situation where shit like that happens,

like conspiracies are built around.

Yeah. I was completely sure that I was going to die.

Nicks: Yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

No, I just, um, figured this is all happening fast,

you know, like, let's just get the footage

and we'll just have it, you know?

Figure out what to do with it.

Okay.

Yeah.

I mean...

Yeah.

Melber: President Trump just spoke out on the record

about Stormy Daniels.

The President of the United States,

denying he paid Stormy Daniels for that secret NDA agreement.

Melber: Trump was asked about it on Air Force One.

And there's a million ways to handle that,

including walking away.

It's an example of Donald Trump passing the buck.

So the press then didask Michael Cohen.

It fed the story in ways that did clearly hurt Trump.

He definitely made it worse by just pushing it on Cohen.

Welker: Tonight, a dramatic FBI raid at

the New York office and hotel room of Michael Cohen,

the President's personal attorney,

who paid off adult-film star Stormy Daniels

for her silence about her alleged affair

with Mr. Trump 11 days before the election.

Woman: A watchdog group filed a complaint

with the Federal Elections Commission,

alleging the deal involving then presidential candidate Trump

is a violation of campaign finance law.

There's a very narrow set of circumstances

in which who you are having sex with is newsworthy.

What seemed most interesting about it from the get-go

was the salacious element of it.

**

But it gets worse in terms of the criminal law,

potentially, because the payment to Stormy,

to make her story go away,

came from Michael Cohen's home-equity line.

And Michael Cohen does get reimbursed

for having paid that money

in a way that may have affected Donald Trump's ability

to get into the White House.

But the issue is not her.

The issue is -- the issue is the crime.

Thank you, I think?

I mean... [ Both laugh ]

I don't even know what to say to that.

[ Claps ]

[ Chuckles ]

Amateur.

We have to run to the airport and pick up my husband,

who is flying in that we were supposed to have

a couple of days together, alone, kid-free,

to celebrate our nine-year anniversary,

in Miami, and he booked a really nice hotel room

and stuff on the beach.

But it got cut a day short

by having to go to court now tomorrow.

So what was supposed to be, like, a nice three-day little,

two-night, three-day thing is now less than 24 hours.

**

Woman: A federal judge in New York,

has ordered President Trump's personal attorney,

Michael Cohen, to attend a court hearing this afternoon.

Federal prosecutors and Cohen's defense attorneys

will be arguing today

about how FBI-seized material should be handled.

[ Crowd shouting ]

[ Camera shutters clicking ]

**

Hi, everyone.

[ Crowd shouting indistinctly ]

So, for years,

Mr. Cohen has acted like he is above the law.

He has openly referred to himself as Mr. Trump's fixer.

He has never thought that the little man,

or especially women, and even more, women like me, mattered.

That ends now.

My attorney and I are committed to making sure

that everyone finds out the truth

and the facts of what happened,

and I give my word that we will not rest until that happens.

Thank you very much.

[ Crowd shouting ]

McCain: It seems like a publicity stunt on some level.

I mean, because you didn't have anything

to do with the case.

It seemed a little like you

were just trying to get attention,

which I understand that you're being sued by our president,

but it does seem like you're benefiting a lot.

Daniels: Yes, there's a lot of publicity, but I didn't do it for that,

because this isn't what I want to be known for.

As a matter of fact, I hid for quite a while,

and it's -- it's overwhelming and intimidating

and downright scary a lot of times.

Glen: The night I met Stormy, thought she was pretty,

and I just walked right up to her and sat down next to her

and just was like, "Hey, what's up?"

**

I was like, "I would ask you for your number,

but I know you'll never call me."

And she was like, "What makes you think that?"

And I'm like, "Well, just look at you."

Daniels: I'm not really sure what it was about Glen right away,

but the spark was instant.

He was talented and funny and sweet, and he was hot.

Glen: On paper, who I was and who she was,

that should have gone up in flames in about five minutes.

It ended up being the love of my life.

I knew she was involved in an adult industry.

She had presented it as what it was,

and what she had told me was what it was,

and I was able to either take it or leave it.

Honestly, it was hard, you know? But it wasn't.

It wasn't harder than leaving and not hanging out with her.

You don't change somebody you love.

Early on in our relationship,

I was playing a show at a club in Pittsburgh

and I get a frantic call. She's crying.

She says, "I can't do this anymore.

I love you too much. I need to do this stuff,

but I can't do it with anybody but you."

Right there is presented a huge, life-changing decision.

And then, I actually ended up doing porn.

You think you're invincible.

Your career's going well.

"I can handle this. I got you, babe."

You don't think, "Oh, wow.

My dick's half the size of everybody else that does this.

That's not going to be a problem later down the road.

That's not going to fuck with my emotions at all.

That's not going to make me feel inferior.

That's not going to give me a complex."

It slowly eroded my confidence.

She is the type of person that has the calluses.

You know, I'll put it in drummers terms.

You play drums for a while, you have the calluses,

so you can play drums for a long time

and your hands don't get hurt.

She had the mental calluses, the physical calluses,

the walls built up to where she just fucking took it in stride

and used it as a badge of honor.

And she's good at that shit, you know what I mean?

Daniels: Glen was my third husband,

but this time around, it was a different

kind of thing completely.

Glen did not know about the Trump stuff.

He was going through some really serious

personal demons of his own.

Do you tell everybody you're with every single person

you had sex with three years before you meet them,

especially if one of them is an orange hobgoblin?

No, it was just a conversation that we had never had.

And I didn't think it fucking mattered.

Glen: If you're ashamed of something,

you're probably not going to tell the people

that are closest to you because you're ashamed of it.

I guess I can

stand up and be a man and admit that

because I lied to her about drinking a lot.

Daniels: I told him that Trump and I had not had sex,

that I had gone to the hotel room.

I told him about "Celebrity Apprentice,"

I had told him that he would call me all the time.

And he said, "That's it? 'Cause they're saying you fucked him."

And I was like, "Well, they'll say that about any porn star

who goes to a rich guy's room."

Glen: The sexual part I didn't know about.

But the money came to my bank account.

She said, you know, "Hey, I got these calls

from Donald Trump's lawyer," all this stuff.

There's a payment that they're trying

to take care of for the election."

It was awfully naive of me at the time

to think that a $130,000 payment

from somebody that was a business partner

or a relationship from 12 years ago

all of a sudden is becoming a necessity

the week before a presidential election.

She absolutely lied to me

until I found out from her attorney on CNN

when all this shit came to light with the Michael Cohen stuff.

**

Colbert: Adult actress Stormy Daniels just announced

she'll be dancing as part of the Making America Horny Again Tour,

which, I got to say, America needs right now.

Woman: Although Stormy was a well-known porn actress before,

she's been selling out performances like tonight's

since coming forward with allegations

against the President.

Daniels: The only time I took a break from stripping

was the year and a half that I had my daughter.

I'm one of the most famous feature dancers in the world.

I didn't wake up after the Trump presidency,

like, "I'm gonna make America horny."

The Trophy Club coined that,

and it made it look like it was my idea.

Team Stormy! Team Stormy! Team Stormy!

So, yes, more offers started coming in for a lot more money,

and the club started getting filled.

But there was stuff that I was already doing.

Gibson: Have you guys ever interviewed her

or, like, met her or...?

No. I mean, I really don't want to talk about this.

Um...

Yeah, well, let's... We have to.

So, I have been in the same room as Stormy Daniels before, yes.

To be clear, it was her Make America Horny Again Tour.

I was there for the sole purpose

of trying to get comment from her.

It was mortifying. She flirted --

I did get motorboated.

Did you know that?

Oh, my God.

Joe actually didn't ask to get motorboated like that.

No, I did not. It was not his choice.

No, I did not. Yeah.

I love my job, and I'm happy to be here in Detroit.

Woman: A drunk man threw a wallet at her, striking her head.

He just wanted to throw a lot of money at her.

He just forgot to take the money out of his wallet.

Daniels: I'm the sole breadwinner in my family.

Like, I pay for everything.

If you drive an ice cream truck

and you've been driving an ice-cream truck for two years,

and you don't drive it the week

of the heat wave, you're an idiot.

Man: She's all about making money and getting

her 15 minutes, you know?

So she comes out with this thing about Trump.

Woman: You don't believe it?

No, I believe it.

Crawford: April 2018, I got a phone call from Stormy.

She told me, "Hey, I need somebody that I can trust,

and you're it."

I had obviously never traveled with Stormy in a capacity

that involved security and a journalist.

It was a lot of fun, but I was often scared.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

The crowds were getting bigger, and people

were protesting outside of every club with signs.

Security guards would report people showing up,

trying to bring guns in, knives in.

It was terrifying. It was...

Fuck, it was hell.

And Stormy wanted to keep

the whole thing away from her daughter.

Daniels: I can't be home for more than 24 hours

because then press parks in my fucking front yard,

and she can't ride her bike.

She can't be a kid. She can't be a kid.

I have to stay away from her.

And so far, her name and her photo

hasn't been splashed everywhere.

And it shouldn't be because once that happens...

It's coming. Like...

...life gets difficult for her. And a 7-year-old

should not have to live with that.

**

Woman: Stormy Daniels and her attorney

have promised for quite some time now

that they would be releasing a sketch of the man

that Stormy Daniels says threatened her years ago

to stay quiet about her alleged affair with Donald Trump.

Woman #2: This is going back to an incident in 2011

when Stormy Daniels says a man approached her

in a Las Vegas parking lot and threatened her

and told her to leave Donald Trump alone.

**

Daniels: Trump retweeted a photo of Glen

that said that he was the guy in the sketch

and called me a con job.

Glen: Looking on Twitter and seeing a picture of myself

on Donald Trump's Twitter account,

it's just like, you don't -- you don't plan for that.

Daniels: I'm agreeing with you. You are entitled to feel

everything you're feeling. Like...

You're hurt, you're jealous, you're sad, you're scared.

You're worried.

Like, all of that is 100% justified.

I'm not telling you to get over it.

I'm not telling you to grow up.

I'm not telling you that I don't understand how you feel.

Like, I feel all the exact same thing.

Like I said, the President tweeted a photo of you, Glen.

Like...

He hasn't tweeted a photo of anyone else.

You're the only person in the entire universe

that this is happening to, and you're all alone.

I get it.

Like, I don't want to be here.

I don't want to be fucking stripping when I'm 45.

Glen: I felt alone. It's not about, "Oh, my God,

I can't believe you fucked Donald Trump."

It's about the fact that a lot of other things

started to unravel because of that.

**

Daniels: Michael Avenatti had done a lot of things

without telling me he was going to necessarily do them.

I found out he actually filed the defamation suit

by reading about it on Twitter.

**

I figured that Michael's main goal

was to be able to depose Trump.

You need really solid false claims

for a solid defamation case rather than opinion.

**

Daniels: I remember saying to him, like, "Yeah,

Trump called me a con job. I get called way worse,

by the minute, every day."

Looking back, I didn't realize the gravity of that

was like Trump basically called me a liar,

and that is actually defamation.

But it wasn't what I wanted to focus on.

Nuzzi: Anytime Trump is on the receiving end

of any allegation from any woman,

his standard playbook is to attack,

attack, attack, and to defame.

You've called women you don't like "fat pigs"

and "disgusting animals."

Your Twitter account --

Only Rosie O'Donnell.

Nuzzi: Whereas, for Stormy, what the general public saw

was a woman not afraid to fight back

against the sitting president of the United States.

She was liberated, and she didn't seem scared of him.

**

Earhardt: Thank you so much for being with us, Mr. President.

Trump: Well, good morning.

And I picked a very, very special day

because it's Melania's birthday.

So happy birthday to Melania.

Kilmeade: Let's talk about Michael Cohen.

He's going to be taking the Fifth.

What's your reaction to that, being that you worked with him

for a couple of decades?

Trump: Brian, you know, Michael, Michael's been on your show,

I'm sure, a lot. You know, Michael.

-We know him. -A good person.

Trump: Let me just tell you that he represents me,

like, with this crazy Stormy Daniels deal.

He represented me.

And, you know, from what I see...

It's so creepy.

It's the first time he said my name.

Two weeks ago, he said that he knew nothing about me

or any of that when he was on Air Force One, right?

He's starting to do what I said he was going to do all along.

He's starting to throw Cohen under the bus.

Trump: And I've been told I'm not involved, right.

Daniels: I don't think he proved that he's guilty of anything

other than publicly, on Fox News,

saying that he hired a lawyer to handle

"the Stormy Daniels thing," so...

Earhardt: We want to get to Kanye West.

He tweeted that he loves you, that you're his brother.

Trump: You know, I have known Kanye

a little bit, and I get along with Kanye.

I get along with a lot of people.

Avenatti: We need to take his deposition.

We need to put him under oath.

We need to find out exactly what his position is --

about the agreement, what he knew, what he paid,

what he didn't pay, what he did about it.

This could be the last nail in the coffin.

Stormy Daniels is causing stormy weather for this president.

**

Her being here and Michael Avenatti being on TV

all the time reminds us

that we have to get to the truth about everything.

Woman: This is a great time

on the #MeToo movement and standing up

for what she believes in.

Anything we can do to support her, we'll do it.

Daniels: Suddenly, I looked out in the crowd

and it's these groups of women and they're crying.

"There's no crying in titty bars!

What are you guys doing?!"

There are very often women at Stormy's

strip-club performances who

will come up while she's dancing.

And instead of putting a dollar

in her G-string, they'll like, say, "No, no, no,"

and, like, put it in her hand. You know, like,

"No, here. I respect you."

Woman: You know, she talks about the demographic

that come to her strip shows.

The white men who used to come are just gone now,

and it's hordes of women.

it's gay couples, it's immigrants.

Here to comment is Stormy Daniels.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Strong: I'm like a liberal hero, even though

I'm a Republican porn star who loves Sarah Palin, right?

The selective outrage and the twisted morality

of the left never fails to amaze me.

**

Woman: These women came to talk to Stormy Daniels

about Jesus Christ.

**

It's pretty common knowledge

that I am a registered Republican.

I make the joke "I go both ways."

I wasn't trying to be a champion for #MeToo,

or for any other movement.

Originally, I just did this for purely

fucking selfish reasons.

I wanted to stand up for myself and save my own ass,

not everyone else's.

Woman: She has become this symbol of the resistance.

She didn't necessarily want to become that,

but it's pretty impossible to put that genie

back in the bottle.

I'm not that special.

Makes me feel like a hypocrite.

I feel like I better do something that's worthy

of what they're giving me, and I don't know what that is.

No.

That's what they all keep telling me to do.

But...

that was not what I set out to do.

I just...

just wanted to

stand up for myself.

You've got your phone working.

Yeah, it's hard for me to answer if you call late at night,

'cause that's when I'm usually at work.

Or if you call really early in the morning, I'm sleeping

because I worked really late. But if you call

the middle of the day, like right now, it's okay.

Most people who go out on tour, they get a break.

They get to go home for a little while.

But when I went home, it was dangerous to my family.

I'm hurting my daughter

every day that I don't see her.

She doesn't understand why, at 7 years old,

mommy has disappeared and why daddy cries.

**

You're way overthinking it. Glen: No, but --

You have more important things to worry about.

Like, seriously.

Cooper: Joining us now for an exclusive interview,

he's the former mayor of New York City,

he is attorney for President Trump.

Rudy Giuliani is with us.

Paying some Stormy Daniels woman $130,000?

I mean, which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal.

No campaign finance violation.

Cooper: So they funneled it through the law firm,

Funneled through a law firm, and the President repaid it.

Oh, I didn't know -- He did.

Nicks: Today, the seriousness ramped up

with Giuliani confirming the President

knew about the payment.

Not only knew about it, but that he paid him back.

Knew about it, and paid him back.

So, who's lying?

Is it Cohen saying that he mortgaged his house

and hasn't been paid back?

Or is it Giuliani saying that the President paid it back?

And honestly, how would he even know?

Because part of me kind of believes Cohen, that, like,

Trump was supposed to pay him back and fucked him over

because he's got such a bad reputation

about paying people back.

There's a considerable amount of evidence

that's going to come to light in connection with this case.

I don't think I'm going on "SNL"

because I'm a fantastic actress comedian,

and they've invited me on because I'm so talented,

even though they should.

I think it's because of scandal.

Crawford: I feel like you're also

going on because a lot of people are backing you.

You're standing up to a bully. That's exactly what's happening,

and it's looking like you're coming out on top,

as you should.

I see.

It's just, like, this constant fucking roller coaster.

"Welcome to Studio 8-H.

From Lorne and everyone here at 'SNL.'"

Nicks: [ Chuckles ]

Coolest thing ever.

Woman: Yes![ Gasps ]

[ Gasps ]

Woman: What?

Okay. That's Okay.

No, it's so good.

Okay. Perfect.

Yes. Sorry.

I'm wearing underwear.

I didn't wear underwear to court.

I didn't wear underwear to "The View."

I didn't wear underwear to "60 Minutes."

Trying to class it up a little bit.

Jones: Stormy Daniels.

Dwayne, will you take a picture?

Woman: I was hitting on Leslie.

I know.

Thank you.

Mr. Trump, I don't know what to do.

You keep changing your story on the Stormy Daniels payment.

Look, let's get Rudy Giuliani on the phone.

He'll fix this. He's got the sharpest legal mind

since "My Cousin Vinny."

[ Audience laughs ]

Rudy, is that you?

Yes. That's right.

It's me.

Call up Stormy Daniels and fix this once and for all.

[ Ringing ]

[ Cheers and applause ]

Hello?

Stormy? This is Michael Cohen.

Are you alone?

Yes.

And what are you wearing?

[ Laughter ]

Excuse me?

Okay, Michael, I can take it from here.

Sorry, Donald. It's too late for that.

I know you don't believe in climate change,

but a storm's a-comin', baby.

[ Cheers and applause ]

I've never been so scared and so horny at the same time.

Both: And live from New York, it's "Saturday Night"!

**

**

We're just here to support our president.

-She's an American hero, sir. -Yeah, that's the problem.

-It's why we're out here. -Just take over.

Yeah. We got one right now.

Duran: Under the great laws of the Golden State,

I hereby declare it Stormy Daniels Day

in the city of West Hollywood.

This community has a history of standing up to bullies

and speaking truth to power.

And I'm so very, very lucky to be a part of it.

Thank you.

There's no hate tweets.

I'm scrolling through Twitter.

Man: Really?

Yeah. They're all good.

Do you understand how disappointing this is?

Really?! Yay!

City leaders are more interested in hashtag resisting

the president than they are in taking care of the crime

and the blight and the piles of trash on our streets.

A porn star that extorts the president

for $130,000 gets a key to the city.

Man: Sexual predator in the White House.

Avenatti: I think the last 2 1/2 months have been a warm-up lap.

I think there's a lot more information,

a lot more bombs to drop.

Oh, Avenatti?

I saw he was signing autographs up front.

Boston.

Did you like my speech?

I'm serious. I'm serious.

I know, but it's all --

Keep saying nice things to me and I'll take my clothes off

because that's my go-to defense mechanism.

[ Laughs ]

Daniels: Before I met Michael Avenatti,

I called several lawyers, and some were just

immediately like, "I'm sorry, too hot for us,"

or, you know, "We need a minimum $100,000,"

and like, "No, no, no."

When I first met him, I thought he was so generous

by not taking more than $100 from me.

He was the only person even willing

to not only help me and champion for me,

but believed me.

Hey, Michael, we're the...

Melber: Joining me now is Stormy Daniels' lawyer,

Michael Avenatti.

Michael Avenatti.

Michael Avenatti.

Lawyers don't normally do talk shows.

I'm not your normal lawyer, I guess.

Maddow: Michael Avenatti was doing lots and lots

and lots of media.

It struck me that he was sort of standing as much

in the spotlight as she was.

Stelter: There's been a lot of attention

about whether you're going to run for president in 2020.

How serious are you at this moment in time about that?

I'm very serious, Brian.

If I decide to enter this fight,

I think it'll be good for the Democratic Party.

Scarborough: If you look at Michael Avenatti,

he has done to Donald Trump what nobody else has been able to do

since he first rode down that golden escalator.

The level of competition on the other side is pathetic.

I'm calling him a pathetically slow learner,

just so we're clear.

This guy is an absolute pig.

You're the one that refers to her consistently as a porn star,

and to me as a creepy porn lawyer.

And meanwhile, you give the President --

Meanwhile, you give the President a pass.

Why is it that you don't call

Donald Trump the creepy porn president?

He's the one that had sex

with a 4-month-old son at home

with my client without a condom.

**

What, you may be asking, is a "porn star lawyer"

doing here tonight

to speak with you about our party and our republic?

What are we fighting against?

An old man with ideas

about women's bodies over women themselves.

Daniels: He was very charismatic. The camera loved him.

He was handsome. He was charming.

He was good at his job.

And what I thought he was doing for me was so kind and so brave

that I was fine with him getting his own stuff,

you know, as long as it didn't interfere with my cases.

Are you trying to out-Trump Trump

by using the media?

And if so, won't that be a Pyrrhic victory?

You will have won,

but at what cost, Michael Avenatti?

At what cost?

Right this minute.

I'm sure you'll call me back later and call me

all sorts of fun names.

It's not a crusade, and I did not get caught.

You just don't get it.

Glen: Then tell me what it is. Tell me what it is.

I told you like 100 times.

It's like talking to a brick wall.

Okay. Then tell me again.

I'm not -- I'm -- Bye. Don't call me again.

**

Daniels: Glen started to kind of unravel,

and we would just fight, and he would scream at me.

And it just, like, went downhill really quickly,

which was surprising because we had a really

good relationship and marriage. Like, it worked really well.

Glen: I don't understand what she did

and the path that she chose.

But I think the problems definitely came to fruition

in all types of manners.

Infidelity increased.

And if we're talking about that guy, Denver, um,

I don't like to hold grudges, but I just...

I don't know what else to say.

**

**

**

**

**

Sheila: Hey, babe, it's mom.

First of all, you know everything you said

in thisPenthouse article, it's just about a lie.

You made me sound like a fucking mean-ass woman,

and I wasn't mean to you.

I loved you with all my heart.

And you were never left alone, hungry, and scared.

There was always a babysitter.

You got everything you ever wanted.

So I don't know if this was

just what you wanted to let people think

about me or what.

And you know what?

I gave you those pretty titties.

You just made them a little bigger by a doctor.

So you take care of yourself.

No one ever helped me.

I mean, you saw the message from my other neighbor.

That was a kid who lived right next door.

Travis. He was my best friend.

He saw everything.

Stormy's mom...

She was one of the guys.

She would party hard, go out drinking, maybe something else.

Um, and I remember a time or two that,

you know, she didn't come home.

Daniels: She was always looking for situations with men.

And I think that's one of the bad things

that I picked up from her.

The only thing I'm addicted to, or always searching for is,

is being loved by someone who actually loves me back.

**

**

This is where I grew up. There's nothing left of it.

**

Everything's closed down.

Everything's, like, just gone.

**

This was my house.

There's a porta potty

in the front yard of the house I grew up in.

My mom knew there was a neighbor abusing me

when I was 9 years old.

He was a child molester.

Nicks: You think he still lives there?

He died.

When did he die?

A long time ago.

I was sad.

Because I wanted to kill him.

We shouldn't stay here. It's not safe.

He did it to some other girls,

and they went to the guidance counselor,

and the police were involved.

And when to the police came to the house,

my mom had me lie because she didn't want me

to be taken away, because if I was taken away,

she didn't get those child-support checks

from my father.

And so the adults at school believed my friends and not me.

They thought I was just trying to get attention, and I was--

I wasn't believed.

I was in every way headed down a path

that should say that I should be still

in a trailer park in Louisiana

and have never seen or done anything.

**

[ Sighs deeply ]

Woman: Controversial adult-film star Stormy Daniels

will be performing in Columbus.

Sirens telling us she is going to be in town July 11th

and 12th at their club. Daniels claims

she had an affair with President Trump.

[ Cheering ]

So, we'd been hired for two nights at Sirens club

in Columbus, Ohio, and things got really crazy there.

I don't believe it. They're here for something else.

What's the issue?

There were two planted undercover police officers,

females, and one encouraged Stormy

to put her tits in her face.

The two female officers,

they were in the merchandise line.

They bought shirts.

They took pictures with her, hugged her, thanked her,

and then immediately, they were ready to arrest her.

They were trying to get her on sexual misconduct.

I went to the back of the bus and counted out $25,000 in cash

and, uh, sent Denver in at 8:00 in the morning to bail her out.

That's all we could do.

**

**

**

Daniels: Well, yes, I want you to change your plans

so that I can see her.

But you don't have to change your plans.

You can drop her off, and then you can go do

whatever you wanted to do. She's fine with me.

Awful, but I'll take it. See you soon.

Crawford: The incident in Columbus, Ohio, kind of caused Glen to...

I think it was just kind of the final straw for him.

Daniels: My daughter was supposed to come out and visit me,

and my friends were going to pick her up and bring her out.

And she didn't get on the plane. They couldn't find her.

Glen didn't answer the phone, so I panicked.

I got to Dallas as fast as possible.

[ Lock beeping ]

At the time, I thought I was never going to see her again.

Since I might not get to talk to her,

I'm going to hide a note in her bed.

I come to the house to see you.

But you and daddy were not home.

You came home?

[ Crying ] Yeah, baby.

I came looking for you.

Bye, I love you.

I love you, too.

I do understand, but you don't have

to go about it this way.

If I have to show up in court, there will be press,

and they will be yelling her name on TV.

We can get divorced, and then we can go to mediation

and have a private custody agreement with no judge

so there's no fucking filing.

And if that's what you'll do,

then I will give you fucking full custody.

And we agree that I get to see her.

And I'm only doing that not because I don't want her...

[ Sniffles ]

...but because I want to keep her safe.

[ Sobbing ]

Woman: Stormy Daniels's divorce drama

is playing out right here in North Texas.

Today, News 8 was first to report her husband

has filed for divorce, citing adultery as a cause.

He was also granted a temporary restraining order,

keeping Daniels from taking their young daughter

on her adult tour.

Glen: I hate that there are bad times to talk about

because there was so many good times.

I thought we were ride-or-die.

I thought she was going to say something crazy, like,

"Okay, we're going to Cuba.

We'll just start over, me and you and her.

Get the dogs, put them on the plane.

Let's go."

That's not what happened at all.

What I saw, point blank, was,

you left me at home with the kid,

and you're on a strip-club tour of North America,

playing this up to the high heavens.

I thought she wanted to be in the spotlight.

I thought she wanted her 15 minutes of fame.

I didn't see the justification in any of it.

And I hate saying that because she's a great person.

But I don't understand what this was about,

and I still really don't, to be quite honest.

Um, I know that it ripped my family apart.

Yeah, I can't do this, Denver.

Daniels: [ Sniffles ]

I'm trying.

Nicks: Okay.

I don't know what else to say.

Everything was for nothing.

Can I be excused now?

And I felt horrible, but I can't even imagine how Glen felt.

It was just not good for him. But mostly I broke his heart.

And that is the one thing in this whole thing

that I regret.

He really didn't deserve...

I'm sorry.

[ Sniffles ]

[ Crying ] He didn't deserve this.

And he's a really good dad.

Sorry.

Holt: Here in New York, Donald Trump's

former private lawyer, Michael Cohen,

accepted his own fate in a deal with prosecutors.

Man: Mr. Cohen pled guilty to two campaign-finance charges,

both for the purpose of influencing the 2016 election.

Holt: Cohen says it was at the direction

of then-candidate Trump.

Woman: Cohen's lawyer late tonight is now pushing back

on the argument the President's team is making,

asking if those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen,

then why wouldn't they be a crime for Donald Trump?

Woman: Did you know about the payments?

Trump: Later on I knew.

And they weren't taken out of campaign finance.

That's a big thing. That's a much bigger thing.

Because that could be a little dicey.

Daniels: Eventually, Cohen had turned on Trump

and admitted what he had done.

But he didn't apologize to me.

Mr. Trump called me a rat for choosing to tell the truth,

much like a mobster would do when one of his men

decides to cooperate with the government.

I had sympathy for him. I had a lot of hostility, too,

because he kind of put me in this mess.

But he's not the one that committed the crime.

And he goes to prison for something

that he was told to do.

**

Janklow: Michelle Obama has a book coming out.

Bernie Sanders has a book.

There's a lot of very, very big books.

Your fans and people who know about you and are curious

about you are going to buy this book regardless.

And my goal always is to get people who are on the fence.

It's just you have to get them to

to overcome their "Fuck this bitch," and pick it up.

Look, I trust you on that.

Daniels: Avenatti got me the book deal.

That's all him. He got it.

And I still think that he may be the devil.

So I have to be careful that he's...

um...

that he doesn't lose sight of what I need him to do.

Everyone's going to have a reaction.

It's either going to be like, "We knew it.

She was in it for the money.

She did this to be rich, and fuck her.

She's a gold digger," and the other half

is gonna be like, "Fuck yes!

-He's already up there. -Okay, great. We'll see --

I'll come up in a little bit.

-I'm Luke. How are you? -Nice to meet you.

I have my response.

Not gonna tell you.

Okay.

Do you want him to, like, have a heart attack

right here and now?

-[ Laughs ] -Okay.

You guys need some privacy?

No.

You can tell me what you would like it to be.

Okay.

How did I know you were gonna say that, regardless?

She wants to have fun with it.

This is -- You know, this is --

Goldberg: Stormy, you have an announcement to share.

Tell everybody what it is.

Oh, you're gonna let me do it?

It's your book.

Oh, you just did it! [ Laughter ]

I knew you wouldn't let me have that.

I have a book coming out October 2nd.

-Wow. -Cool.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Avenatti: I think people are going to be very moved,

and they're going to learn a lot

about this incredible woman,

who I am proud to call my client and my friend

because she's had an amazing life.

And this book is incredibly insightful,

and I am very anxious for people to read it.

But are you gonna give details of that night

in the hotel with -- Yes.

-You are. -Yes.

Daniels: People just wanted the salacious details.

When I came out of that bathroom and Trump

was there in his underwear,

you know, so entitled,

I remember thinking, "Oh, fuck. How did I get myself into this?

I felt that I had been misled and tricked,

and I-I can't even find the words,

but I thought we had this mutual respect.

You know, I've maintained it wasn't rape in any fashion.

Like, you know...

But I didn't say no because I just --

I was 9 years old again.

**

And the last thing I remember was like,

"I could totally take him if I want to scream or fight,

but like, I'm not supposed to act like that."

**

There's that whole dynamic, because I was from the South,

that he was an elder and a man,

and I was taught to show respect

and be a good girl.

**

People say, "You know, you can't abuse a porn star."

That is not true.

What Trump said about grabbing women by the pussy,

he wasn't wrong.

Women will let you grab them by the pussy

because they -- especially if you're famous,

whatever his direct quote was.

He shouldn't have said it, he should never have done it,

but he's not wrong.

And I don't know if they "Let you,"

but they don't tell you not to, and that's what happened to me.

Trump obviously openly admitted and bragged

about that sort of behavior.

And if somebody gets away with something, they get more brazen,

they get more bold, they get more aggressive.

To this day, I blame myself, and I have not forgiven myself

because I didn't shut his ass down in that moment

so maybe make him pause before he tried it with someone else.

The hardest part about all of this

is I feel like I am partially responsible

for every woman that could have come after me.

Daniels: Good. How are you?

Uh-huh.

I'm sure it'll be on Twitter any second.

[ Scoffs ]

Woman: Federal judge has dismissed Stormy Daniels lawsuit

against President Trump.

Man: The judge ruling that Daniels is liable

for the President's attorneys fees.

Woman: From the president, a triumphant tweet

with a gratuitous insult. "Great," he wrote,

"Now I can go after Horseface and her third rate lawyer."

Daniels, deriding the president, responded, "Game on, Tiny."

Nuzzi: Losing the defamation case

has really destabilized Stormy financially,

and Trump's supporters have really seemed to relish in this

and to take great pleasure in her defeat.

Okay.

[ Indistinct talking over phone ]

Yes.

Daniels: Remember how. the last booking,

it was completely fucking packed

and all anybody wanted was books?

Man: Yeah.

They're not selling any more anywhere.

Uh, the same reason that I've gotten

several e-mails and messages

from people going, "We still love you and support you,

but we can't justifiably give you money anymore

because we know it's going directly to Trump now

'cause you lost your case."

But I'm just so scared all the time now

that I can't trust anyone.

I've gotten ripped off by everybody.

You know, I think that when people think you have money

that they're -- when they think you're making millions,

they have less of a conscience about stealing from you.

[ Ringing ]

-Hello. -Hey, Luke. It's Stormy.

Um, so I've been trying to get my payment from Michael,

and Michael's been telling me that it was in the mail,

that I should have it next week, like, blah, blah, blah.

Well, finally, I just said, "Fuck this,"

and called the publisher,

and they said that they already made my third payment,

and all this time I've been thinking

they were four months late.

Two.

I got paid -- I'm 100% positive.

Those are the only two payments I've gotten,

and I have text messages back and forth with me

and Michael from every single day

for the last three months, going,

"When are they going to make my third payment?

When are they going to make their third payment?"

From who? That's not a real thing.

I never did that.

I didn't sign anything, Luke, I swear to you.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

I am 99% sure that Michael forged my signature,

because this is the first time I've heard

"custodial account" ever. Ever.

I don't know, Luke. It's life-changing money to me.

All right. When you get that fourth payment,

for the love of God,

don't give it to anybody but me.

You know what? They're gonna give me

my fourth payment on Tuesday, and Michael was gonna pass

the fourth payment off as the fucking third,

and then say that they never gave me the fourth payment.

-Fucking is now. -Busted, motherfucker.

Well, Tulsa attorney Clark Brewster tells me

he is now the new attorney for adult-film

actress Stormy Daniels. A federal judge...

Brewster: Mr. Avenatti, Clark Brewster.

Avenatti: Ah, Mr. Brewster, pleasure to meet you by phone.

Yes. Hey, just on an abundance

of caution, because we're probably gonna cover

a number of topics, I do have my recorder on.

Do you have any problem with that?

Yeah, I do. I mean, I'm not crazy about having my --

I'll send you -- I'll send it to you.

Especially with counsel. Yeah.

I simply know this -- that wires were sent to her

on the first payment only.

And then they got interrupted by your office

and were sent to you, and that is very concerning.

Sounds like I'm being accused of something

that, frankly, we didn't do anything wrong.

Brewster: He resisted, he pushed back, he became threatening,

and I just lost all kind of effort

to try to talk with the guy in a reasonable way.

What I see is a lawyer that has lied to his client

and has embezzled some money

and converted the money. That's outrageous.

Okay. Well, that's what the record shows.

Well, that's not what...

I had no idea about the depth and background of other cases

that he might be involved in.

Today, we announce criminal extortion charges

against Michael Avenatti.

The charges are based on Avenatti's scheme

to extract more than $20 million

in payments from a public company.

Explain myself?

Man: What's going on with the Nike case?

Looking forward to that trial.

-Yeah. -Yeah, they say that the trial

is a search for the truth, and we're gonna find it.

Turned out that he had a much deeper,

bigger problem in California

that I didn't have knowledge of at the time.

He just got way in, I think, over his head, financially,

and did some things that were damaging to a lot of clients,

including Stormy.

Holt: One of the President's most vocal critics

faces new troubles tonight.

Federal prosecutors charged attorney Michael Avenatti

with stealing nearly $300,000 from his former client,

Stormy Daniels,

by forging her name to fund a lavish lifestyle,

including travel, dry-cleaning, and a payment on his Ferrari.

Daniels: Michael Avenatti -- he betrayed me in every way.

And when it comes to somebody that you trusted

and you thought was your friend,

it's really heartbreaking and upsetting,

which became this pattern with the people closest to me.

Man: Stormy Daniels coming to Calgary,

Sunday, November 3rd, at 7:00 p.m.

She'll be performing at the...

We booked another tour,

and it was a combination of dancing and comedy clubs.

Crawford: We left L.A., flying to Calgary

and the Border Patrol agent for Canada,

he pulls Stormy off to the side

and he's looking at her I.D., he's looking at her passport.

And he tells her that she has all of these charges.

Just this crazy shit that is in no way true.

Man: [ Speaking indistinctly ]

It was 17 charges, not even a believable amount.

Daniels: You're not nearly as fucking confused as I am.

You said this is in the United States FBI system?

Because I wasn't there for any of this stuff.

The Border Patrol agent realized

something had to be off.

He said, "There's no way you did all of this."

Daniels: Dwayne, call Clark.

I was advised by both the Border Patrol

and by my attorneys to lay low.

All it took was the wrong person to pull me over or scan my I.D.

and make a phone call.

They were on my FBI record,

but the FBI did not put them there.

They know who did it. Like, the FBI's not gonna come

to a porn star and tell me how they got breached.

I couldn't obviously go to Canada,

I couldn't go anywhere, which made it impossible

for me to work, and I had no way to make money.

Every time I stood up, I got kicked down even harder.

And I didn't believe in those moments

that it would ever be normal again.

And I hit rock bottom.

[ Crowd shouting ]

[ Glass shatters ]

[ Crashing, clattering ]

Man: Trump's presidency ends today after four contentious

and, at times, tumultuous years.

Man: The 45th president leaves

behind a nation severely wounded,

scarred by an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

and crippled by the doubts he sowed

over the nation's fair electoral process.

[ Gunshot ]

Daniels: [ Laughs ]

I think I did what I wanted to.

Did I get it?

Right in the crotch.

[ Laughs ]

I have some anger issues.

Man: Attorney Michael Avenatti has been convicted

for stealing from his former client,

the adult-film star Stormy Daniels.

Woman: Michael Avenatti said the whole time he was

100% innocent, but the jury thought differently.

Daniels: Michael Avenatti is on a bus right now,

being shipped across the country for sentencing in my case

and I guess wrote me an apology letter today.

Does this sound one bit remorseful to you?

"Dear Stormy, I write to apologize to you

for my actions and conduct over the last three years

and especially over the last several months,

I have had a significant amount of time

to reflect on my life..."

'Cause you in prison, bitch. [ Chuckles ]

"...our friendship, and my legal representation of you.

It is obvious that I failed you in many respects,

and that I disappointed you and let you down in multiple ways.

I tried my best to serve you in many ways as a friend,

confidant, and adviser.

I made myself available to you 24/7

and in my support for you.

But along the way, I know that I failed.

I wish that we could turn back the clock..."

[ Laughs ]

"So that I'd be better at stealing from you"?

"...turn back the clock so that the mistakes I made

would never be repeated. I am truly sorry, Michael."

That's pretty epic.

[ Horse whinnies ]

Blade: Let's go get it!

All right.

Be prepared. He is ugly.

We love ugly, beautiful horses.

Daniels: Watch that gate. Watch it.

Daniels: Now, the Trump wasn't in office anymore

and he had his own set of issues,

so it wasn't all "The Stormy Daniels Show,"

I had just sort of began to return

to a little bit of normalcy in my life.

Glen and I started to get on better terms.

We came to an understanding, and our daughter

was never taken from me.

Glen: To her credit, I think whatever version of a family

we have right now, I applaud her for it.

There was a lot of --

a lot of damage left in the in the wake,

and a lot of people don't realize that,

and they don't realize it's people's lives

that are being affected.

It's not a perfect situation,

but we're trying to make the best of it.

Are you watching this? Look at this ridiculousness.

Mister --

* Let's go, boys *

* Let's go get us some carrots *

Daniels: I got married to Barrett,

who was a good friend of mine.

We had worked together quite a few times,

but we never dated, never even kissed off screen.

And so we rekindled all of that and moved and got horses,

and everything was going great.

And then, last March, I was actually out here riding

and my phone was ding ding ding!

I was like, "Who is blowing up my phone?"

And I picked it up, and I was like, "Oh, my God."

It was like -- it was like 2018 all over again.

Muir: We're coming in the air a bit earlier

than usual because of breaking news at this hour.

A grand jury here in New York City has just

handed up an indictment against former president Donald Trump,

making him the first former president

in U.S. history to face criminal charges.

The D.A. has evidence that Trump was plotting to hide

two sets of stories from two women,

which could have impacted voters.

This is the catch-and-kill plot.

These four horrible radical-left Democrat investigations

of your all-time favorite president, me,

is just a continuation of the most disgusting witch hunt

in the history of our country.

Stormy "Horseface" Daniels' extortion plot,

it's fake news.

Our enemies are desperate to stop us

because they know that we are the only ones who can stop them,

and they know it very strongly.

Daniels: When the indictment happened, Michael Cohen actually texted me

and expressed extreme fear for my safety.

Somehow, our address was leaked again online,

and in an attempt to draw my horse out

so that I would then go out,

they shot him with the rubber bullet.

The justice system failed me.

It has absolutely failed me in every single way.

It didn't protect me when I made reports about being threatened

or somebody attacking my horse.

And that's been one of the hardest things about this.

**

**

Man: Now, there are very few

confirmed details about Trump's indictment.

According to the Associated Press,

Trump's attorney has been told the indictment

relates to hush-money payments made during

the 2016 presidential election to porn actress Stormy Daniels.

DeSantis says Florida will not assist

in an extradition request.

Ugh. Let's pack.

Nobody cares about her agenda,

and that's the hardest part.

No disrespect, but this documentary is an agenda

to help somebody do something to make money.

At this point, she should do it for the fucking money.

She deserves to be compensated

so she can go hide on an island somewhere

and stay away from everybody and live her life

without everybody fuckin' fucking it up.

Morgan: Do you believe if this goes to trial

that you will be completely vindicated

and that it will be established you've told the truth

and he's lied?

Um...

That's wishful thinking.

It makes you become paranoid.

But do you wish you'd never met him?

Of course.

[ Crying ] "You should be super proud."

[ Sniffles ]

"Here's our straight-A student."

I said, "I'm so proud. Did she like her gift?"

And her dad said, "Yep. So cool. Thanks for doing that.

She's so stoked. Wish you could be here.

Our baby got straight A's and is at the top of her class."

So yesterday was her last day of school because --

Time change, obviously.

She got straight A's.

And instead of being there with her,

I'm here talking about an ex-president's penis.

**

As you sat down this morning, you said to us, "It's pointless.

It's winless. I now regret speaking out."

Why?

Because of that. It just --

Nobody cares what the truth is anymore.

Are you frightened?

Yes.

Yeah, I think we all should be.

**

Daniels: "Just watched 'Good Morning Britain'

and you're a brave and strong woman. Keep going."

"Trying to set an example for your daughter?

Yeah, right. Try closing your legs first."

"You're tired and bloated.

How many drinks did you have this morning?"

"Just a modern-day whore saint."

"You are pure scum."

"Even if you'd have been raped,

you should have kept your mouth quiet for the greater good."

"You're nothing but a fat hillbilly.

Trump would never touch you. Stop lying

before I'm forced to shut you up myself."

Direct threat.

"Kill yourself."

"Stormy Daniels' expression of demoralization

provides us with a glimpse of our future."

"Take a good look."

You don't need to read any more.

There's much more.

"You just signed your death warrant."

I don't know what that means.

I thought I did that a long time ago.

Back in 2018, there was stuff like, "Liar, slut, gold digger."

This time around, it is very different.

It is direct threats.

It is, "I'm gonna come to your house and slit your throat.

Your daughter should be euthanized."

They're not even using bot accounts.

They're using their real accounts.

I compare them to suicide bombers.

They legitimately think that what they're doing is right.

Those people who see me as a villain,

it just makes me scratch my head and really question

how they would want their daughters treated

or their sisters or their mother.

Just a never-ending

avalanche of court documents and lawsuits

and court transcripts.

I want it to die.

If I had all of these legal bills piled up,

I would have never been able to pay them.

And Clark is the only one who never charged me

and kept fighting for me.

I can't even imagine where I would be.

She's really in the eye of the storm.

The irony is, Trump's going after her for fees

he probably has never paid.

I think it's more about him trying to intimidate a witness

that may appear in a case against him.

King: When the Trump story first started, I thought,

"Oh, but Stormy's gonna be fine. She'll always be fine."

And I don't think I really got worried

until more recently

with the lawsuits.

It's like they're just trying to bleed her dry.

It's very telling that someone like Stormy Daniels

can get this mistreated this many times by this many lawyers,

all of whom are men, and she's still left holding the bag.

But I think it tells you something both about

the real decay and race to the bottom

that often surrounds Donald Trump and the larger,

if I may, structural misogyny in the legal system

when you look at the whole thing together.

**

It's a lot.

Yeah, and it's a fire hazard in my house and my brain.

The way that this has changed over time is, it started off

as, "You got to be fucking kidding me.

This is ridiculous,"

to "This is terrifying,"

to, "This is infuriating,"

to now it's just like, "This is just pointless."

I have no hope at all anymore.

Kimmel: She told the truth, and she paid a price for that.

It's probably the first thing

everyone who meets her asks her about.

Her daughter has to deal with it.

This is not something that just goes away.

Rogen: She didn't realize she would one day

be at the center of this giant thing,

as she was messing around with some game-show host.

She's someone who, like,

made an enemy of the most powerful guy on the planet

and didn't, like, cower and --

And, you know, that was something that --

that's something that takes a lot of strength, you know?

Nuzzi: She didn't want to be in a years-long legal battle

with the now former president.

The fact that she said that she doesn't want him to go

to prison over their legal drama,

but she would go to prison

so that she doesn't have to pay him a dime,

that's Stormy Daniels.

I think that Stormy Daniels and the phrase "hush money"

is forever going to be associated with the idea

of legal accountability coming home to Donald Trump.

I want her to be speaking as much or as little as she wants.

I mean, that's freedom, right?

Daniels: I feel like, you know,

the way that this is different from 2018

is that I have more knowledge.

Um, the shock of it's not the same.

I'm desensitized to some of it,

but they've also become more violent with me.

I'm more prepared with my legal knowledge,

but I'm also tired.

Like, my soul is so tired.

So, I mean...

And I don't know if I'm so much a warrior now

as -- [ Laughs ] -- as, um...

out of fucks, man. I'm out of fucks.

[ Laughs ]

And I won't give up because I'm telling the truth,

and I kind of don't even know if it matters anymore.

Gibson: Thank you.

Thank you. [ Chuckles ]

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