Before the lunch break, prosecutors showed an email Hope Hicks received from yet another reporter, Michael Rothfeld.

It was titled: “Deadline request from the Wall Street Journal”.

This is the first time she learned about former Playboy model Karen McDougal, Hicks testifies.

Hicks was with Trump on his plane, on their way to Ohio. It was four days until the 2016 election.

The WSJ had been investigating the “catch and kill” deal that AMI, publisher of the National Enquirer, made with McDougal to purchase her story about an alleged affair with Trump.

Hicks said Trump reached out to David Pecker, the boss at AMI, and Michael Cohen for more information.