Stormy Out There: In an interview with Anderson Cooper on “60 Minutes” last night, porn actress Stormy Daniels said she kept quiet for years about a brief affair with Donald Trump because she was physically afraid. She said she was threatened with harm if she talked about her 2006 fling with Trump.

Daniels said, “I was in a parking lot, going to a fitness class with my infant daughter. T– taking, you know, the seats facing backwards in the backseat, diaper bag, you know, gettin’ all the stuff out. And a guy walked up on me and said to me, ‘Leave Trump alone. Forget the story.’ And then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, ‘That’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.’ And then he was gone.”

Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen issued a statement overnight saying the parking lot threat never happened, which makes you wonder, how would he know?

That incident was in 2011 and the interview Daniels had given to In Touch magazine that year was never published. In 2016, just 11 days before the presidential election, she was paid $130,000 and signed a nondisclosure agreement to keep her silence, which she’s now breaking in spades.

It’s pretty evident from her description of meeting Trump in a Lake Tahoe hotel room that she knew the man.

   Daniels: “It started off– all about him just talking about himself. And he’s    like—’Have you seen my new magazine?’”

   Cooper: “He was showing you his own picture on the cover of a magazine.”

   Daniels: “Right, right. And so I was like, ‘Does this– does this normally work for you?’ And he looked very taken– taken back, like, he didn’t really understand what I was saying. Like, I was–  does, just, you know, talking about yourself normally work?”

They talked briefly about Trump’s wife of 18 months.

   Cooper: “Melania Trump had recently given birth to– to a son, just a few months before. Did that– did he mention his wife or child at all in this?”

   Daniels:” I asked. And he brushed it aside, said, ‘Oh yeah, yeah, you know, don’t worry about that. We don’t even, we have separate rooms and stuff.’”

   Cooper: You were 27, he was 60. Were you physically attracted to him?

   Daniels: No.

   Cooper: Not at all?

   Daniels: No.

Now that’s entirely believable.

Hired and Fired: Two lawyers named this past week to join the Trump legal team representing him in the Russian election-influencing investigation are already out.

“The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president’s special counsel legal team,” Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said in a statement yesterday.

This leaves Trump without a professional criminal-defense lawyer.

The President got busy on Twitter, polishing his image. “Many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case…don’t believe the Fake News narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on,” he wrote. He said, “Besides, there was NO COLLUSION with Russia, except by Crooked Hillary and the Dems!”

It’s not a good time for instability in the legal team. Trump is negotiating an interview with the Special Counsel.

Trump, by the way, also tweeted about defense spending and building his wall to cut crime, but never said or tweeted a public word about the massive marches against gun violence on Saturday.

World: Fire swept through a shopping center in a Siberian city almost 1,900 miles east of Moscow, killing at least 64 people, many of them children. The fire started in the top floor where there was a skating rink, a petting zoo, and a play room for children. No cause was immediately given. — The US has expanded its war against al Qaeda into southern Libya with a missile strike on a house in Ubari, 435 miles south of Tripoli. Previously the US has been focused on Islamic State militants in the northern part of the country. — Saudi air defenses intercepted seven missiles fired at Riyadh by Houthi rebels in Yemen. One person was killed.

Hoop Dreams: Kansas beat Duke in 85-81 in overtime yesterday to reach the Final Four in the NCAA basketball tournament. Next Saturday it’s No. 3 seed Michigan vs. No. 11 Loyola-Chicago, and No. 1 Villanova vs. No. 1 Kansas.

The Social Page: Star Jones, a former member of the panel on ABC’s “The View” who is famous for being Star Jones and letting you know it, is getting married for the second time. She was previously married for four years to Al Reynolds, who later announced that he bats from both sides of the plate.

If you don’t know who Reynolds is, he’s famous for having been married to Star Jones.

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