Stormy Daniels Gets Star Treatment in 'Vogue'
BALDWIN: Stormy Daniels like you have never seen her, all decked out in high-end designer couture, photographed by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz and gracing the pages of high fashion's Bible, "Vogue" magazine. This is, shall we say, a far cry from the film sets where she was once an adult film star or the strip clubs where she now dances. It is a bit closer to the look she dons for media appearances outside courthouses where she is suing the president of the United States and his one-time lawyer Michael Cohen over keeping quiet an alleged affair. Daniels is getting the royal "Vogue" treatment in a gown by a designer who refuses to dress the first lady. The article is called "Stormy Daniels Isn't Backing Down." And with me now, Amy Chozick, who wrote the "Vogue" piece. She is author of "Chasing Hillary." So nice to have you on.</s>AMY CHOZICK, "VOGUE": So good to be here. Thanks for having me.</s>BALDWIN: OK. So just start at the beginning. Why did you want do interview her?</s>CHOZICK: Well, I was really intrigued by her. And there's been a lot written about her, but after that "60 Minutes" interview, she really hasn't done any interview. We haven't heard her own voice in this.</s>BALDWIN: Yes.</s>CHOZICK: We have heard Michael Avenatti, her lawyer, defending her and talking about the case, of course. But I really wanted to get at kind of the psychological and personal toll that it's taken on her being one of the president's, you know, chief adversaries. What is that like? And so we really kind of dove into that over a couple conversations.</s>BALDWIN: So, you talk about -- I have to quote this line in the piece, because you set it up, comparing her to, of course, what we saw in that "60 Minutes" interview...</s>CHOZICK: Yes.</s>BALDWIN: ... all fancy and makeup job and everything. And you write: "In person, Stormy is nothing like that stoic, on- message woman. She is blunt, foulmouthed, funny. I ask her for more details on her alleged 2006 affair with Trump."