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Documents that were seized at michael cohens home, apartment and office filed a report with the court stating some of the documents will be privileged. over 1,000 in the raid. theres a lot more that wont be privileged. no word on which category this audio tape falls into, rick. >> thanks, laura. caroline is here. shes a federal and white collar criminal defense attorney. i have so many questions. first and foremost, is the president at risk here? >> potentially. as laura reference there, the leg...

Disturbing. >> okay. and let me ask you, emily, to respond. "the new york times" is updating the updated story saying giuliani called back. trump and cohen were discussing buying the rights to mcdougals story from the enquirer, effectively reimbursement. there is a large body of reporting about the symbiotic relationship between donald trump and michael cohen and ami. if you could just speak to -- and youve done some of that exquisite reporting about just how interconnected, how they really func...

A long standing relationship, which has been well reported, between ami, mr. pecker, and mr. trump, and in which they have helped each other from time to time, and both favoring mr. trump and killing other stories. what they did with the mcdougal story was they paid her 150,000 and then kill it had story and tried to tie her down with that contract. thats an abusive situation in which they said this is a story thats going to run. you dont pay $150,000 for a dog and then they didnt run it. the on...

Decades. mr. trunk, his lawyer michael cohen and mr. pecker have strategized protecting him. and in june, it was reported that ami had been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors related to the mcdougal payment. there is a closeness here that extends back to well before donald trump was a political character. >> and speaks to trumps history of coddling or cozying up to gossip writers. he maintained close relationships with the people who wrote those columns and he would doll oe out pieces of

Bizarre. and you have do wonder if this was also a pattern to reimburse ami for what theyd already done. >> lets slow down a bit. were getting into the initials. youre talking about the "national enquirer" parent company, youre talking about whether there was an elicit plot to misuse or abuse that organization, that media company to secretly try to buy people off and bury their story. thats a big no-no to use a legal term. we spoke to mcdougals lawyer about this. take a listen to what he was say...

Of the ami payment in august, two months prior to the election. and we are hearing maybe we should buy these rights from ami because trump wanted to be the gate keeper of the secrets. he didnt want anybody to know about this before the election occurred. >> rudy giuliani, the presidents lawyer confirmed the recordings saying the conversation was less than two mon mn minutes long. giuliani confirmed that trump had directed cohen to make the payment, but quote the payment was never made. adding th...

>> hillary clinton failed every single time as secretary of state. now she wants to be president. hillary clinton doesnt have the fortitude, strength, or stamina to lead in our world. >> do you view this as a potential type of coordination where michael cohen was outside of what his authority or legal limits should be as a private sector counsel to donald trump as an individual not as a candidate? >> well, if he was carrying this out on behalf of donald trump, you know, again, i think this could...

Trump want interested in hillary clintons health. a cover story was sent to cohen in advance. do you have a legal theory or any knowledge based on your dealings against cohen whether any of this stuff which is certainly shady is also potentially exposes criminal liable to cohen or the trump campaign? >> well, i think it might, because heres what we dont know. we dont know the full extent of the flow of money, if there was any flow of money, between the trump organization, michael cohen, and the ...

I dont know exactly what they are categorizing ami, but by subpoenaing them they have clearly done that. ami indicated that they are going to claim some first amendment privileges to protect their sources. thats a potential area for litigation. so they will do everything they can to fight this through litigation. but i agree with michael, these are people who are not going to want to mess with the government. and they are going to try to cooperate. the interesting thing that you pointed out with...

Those parties. there could be potentially money laundering or bank fraud charges that might result from that. lets remember, there could also be additional campaign finance violations associated with that conduct. if ami was purposely engaged in an organized evident with michael cohen and the trump organization to influence that campaign and it was effectively being coordinated by donald trump or michael cohen but none of that was reported that would be very, very problematic. >> there are peopl...