The two were on a call after the former Playboy model did an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
Before his testimony ended, David Pecker testified about a conference call former President Donald Trump set up between the tabloid publisher and two of his White House aides, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Hope Hicks.
The call happened soon after Karen McDougal gave an interview to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. On the call, Pecker told the aides he planned to extend an agreement with McDougal that would keep her from speaking more widely about her affair with the former president.
Alex Wagner looks at how Donald Trump used his relationship with then-publisher of the National Enquirer, David Pecker, to manufacture negative stories about his political opponents when they were performing too well against him during the 2016 campaign, and explains why showing the National Enquirer to be motivated solely by helping Trump's campaign is key to Trump's prosecution in his New York criminal trial.