Karen McDougal, Stormy Daniels both tell their exclusive stories to CNN’s Anderson Cooper

Much of the news media has been obsessed with the ongoing saga of adult film star Stormy Daniels and her claims of having an alleged affair with President Trump 12 years ago. A second report is getting almost as much attention.

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal — who says she had a liaison with the president around the same time — will debut in a showcase for her story on Thursday. She has granted an exclusive on-camera interview to CNN prime-time host Anderson Cooper to air on the network, Thursday at 8 p.m. ET. It’s complicated. Ms. McDougal is endeavoring to be released from a legal agreement with the National Enquirer to provide them an exclusive story. She is actually suing the publication.

Meanwhile, Mr. Cooper will interview Ms. Daniels in another exclusive interview, to air Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on CBS “60 Minutes.” The network advises that Ms. Daniels will elaborate on the relationship she says she had with Mr. Trump in 2006 and 2007.

“She is revealing details that bring her story up to the present. It is the first and only television interview in which she speaks about the alleged relationship,” CBS said in production notes.

“I guess I’m not 100 percent sure why you’re doing this,” Mr. Cooper tells Ms. Daniels in a very brief video clip the network has released in advance.

An Economist/YouGov poll released this week found that though 80 percent of Americans have heard news of Ms. Daniels and her claims of having an alleged affair with Mr. Trump, the circumstances are not registering as a significant phenomenon for the public. Only 19 percent say the matter is of “high importance to the nation,” and only 5 percent said the allegations would have prompted them to change their vote for Mr. Trump, had they known about them in 2016.