we have people from a former miss usa contestant, univision with a lawsuit launched against them. this is part of a long history and pattern of michael cohen making legal threats in order to try to fix perceived problems for his boss. >> how effective were the tactics? >> it's hard to say, because a lot of the time we don't know who's been silenced by the threats. a lot of these things are kept hidden and behind the scenes. that's why the audio is interesting. we get a sense of how in private michael cohen likes to operate and how at least at the time the trump organization operated. we have this reporting in which michael avenatti, stormy daniels' tells us, hey, when michael cohen got her to sign the nda, there were threatening, coercive language used at the time too. it really feels like part of a larger pattern. it's hard to know how effective it is, because if it is effective, people don't speak up. >> what do you think, if anything, it means for the claim that stormy daniels was, number one, threatened by somebody she believes could be part of the trump orbit, but also believ