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A gigantic leap to decide to put personal banking information in the national news. >> um-hum. >> what will happen to him do you think. >> i mean, it is a criminal -- its always a criminal to leak a suspicious activity report. so i suspect that there will be an investigation at a minimum the inspector general is already investigating but its a serious question. i mean michael cohen is the subject of a criminal investigation. but none of this should be public. >> you know, if you put aside -- im ...

Reports that banks are mandated to file when they see suspicious activity are held. and this law enforcement official searching for records related to michael cohen, which as fairly routine thing a law enforcement official might do in response to seeing news about cohen, to for instance see if there was anything happening related to this case in their jurisdiction. what this official found was that there was a fairly striking suspicious activity report, which has been public for the past week, a...

Would start to look at the information, the transaction information and the information collected at on boarding. if a human being decides this looks suspicious, then the human being would escalate that up the chain and that would cause a suspicious activity report to be filed. >> you heard my discussion with rachel maddow about what happened to the other two suspicious activity reports. the two missing reports that provoked this current government official to decide to leak the suspicious activ...

U.s. attorney harry litman. this is a crazy story. on a number of fronts. first, your reaction to the fact that a while ble blower and law enforcement official essentially leaked what is a suspicious activity report from a bank to the public. >> yeah, crazy story capping a crazy head-spinning day. how many weeks ago did we hear about donald trump jr.s testimony in front of the senate? that was the a.m. this morning. everythings happened since. yeah, and this latest development, chris, bizarre wi...

Reporting streak in recent journalistic memory and authored that report, yet another scoop will be joining rachel coming up. you want to stick around for that. with me now, maxine waters, democrat from california and ranging member of the financial services committee, the committee that has oversight statutory authority over the financial system that is very intimately familiar with the ways in which the financial system is compelled to report things specially. i want to get first your reaction ...

Pulled off the system when somethings not there, that should be -- that should be, i immediately became concerned. thats why i came forward. this is a permanent record. they should be there. and there is nothing there. the suspicious activity report that has been released shows bank compliance officers repeatedly trying to figure out what michael cohen was up to, morgan stanley smith barnny filed a report saying that the transactions in michael cohens account there showed signs of, quote, briber...

And this is not normal. things that stand out as abnormal, like documents being removed from a system, are of grave concern to me. of the potential for legal consequences the official said, quote, to say that i am terrified right now would be an understatement." but the official said, quote, "this is a terrifying time to be an american, to be in this situation, and to watch all of this unfold." joining us now is ronan farrow, contributing "new yorker" writer who broke this scoop tonight. ronan, ...

Prosecutor. and david k you remember when there was no office of pooler enterprises -- office of ethics. before we get to the stormy daniels revelation in the financial disclosure form, i want to pick up on what we were reporting on with ronan farrows reporting tonight, that it is a current government official who has decided to leak, illegally, this suspicious activity report on michael cohen. the government official knows that its a crime. knows what the government official is risking in this ...

Happens, and prosecutors we talked to and law enforcement personnel we talked to said they didnt know of any set procedure by which you could achieve such a thing. >> so theoretically it could be the prosecutors of the southern district of new york. it could be the special counsels office saying we know this suspicious activity report exists. we dont want it on the database because that is so 60 we cant have tens of thousands of law enforcement personnel having access to this information. theore...

Reporting on with ronan farrows reporting tonight, that it is a current government official who has decided to leak, illegally, this suspicious activity report on michael cohen. the government official knows that its a crime. knows what the government official is risking in this and the government official says that he or she is terrified by what he or she has done but believes that its important. we have so much information that we are learning in these reports, including tax implications, whic...