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Prosecutor says jury will hear recorded call between Trump and Cohen about McDougal payment during trial

From CNN's Michael Williams

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo told the jury that AMI paid Karen McDougal $150,000 for the rights to her story.

Colangelo said the evidence will show that Donald Trump was informed about the McDougal situation, and that "the defendant desperately did not want this information about Karen McDougal to become public because he was concerned about the election."

Colangelo said David Pecker started "getting antsy and frustrated" because he was concerned Trump wouldn't pay him back for the McDougal pay off.

To show good faith with Pecker, Michael Cohen used his cell phone to record a conversation with Trump about the McDougal payment in September of 2016.

The jury will hear that recorded call at trial, Colangelo says.

"Just as Cohen was doing, Pecker also used a middleman to hide the true nature of the transaction," Colangelo said.

The prosecutor said that Pecker eventually told Cohen that the "deal was off" and that AMI would "eat the cost" of paying McDougal.