The payments.......

"I believed that payment would raise a lot of questions and issues," Pecker says about Cohen reimbursement 

Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Brynn Gingras

Pecker is saying he asked a consultant to work with Cohen on the McDougal reimbursement.

Pecker informed Cohen of this and made the introduction. Pecker is saying he put the consultant in touch with Cohen, and that he said he created a company called Resolution Consultants to bill it.

At this point, Judge Juan Merchan gave the jury an instruction that the document was accepted into evidence for the fact that it was created, but that jurors should not consider the truth of what it says.

Steinglass asks if its fair that Pecker used the consultant as a middleman and it was objected to by the defense. The judge sustained.

"I used Daniel Rodstein (sp) because I did not want to have a payment received in the AMI finance department from the Trump Organization or Michael Cohen," Pecker said, referring to the consultant.

Steinglass asked, "Why not?"

"Because I believed that payment would raise a lot of questions and issues," Pecker said.

Steinglass is having Pecker read the invoice item, which says the money was billed for a "flat fee" for advisory services.

Pecker says that's not what the $125,000 invoice was for — it was for the lifetime rights to Karen McDougal's story.