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That first republic bank flagged the payment as suspicious and reported it to the treasury department. now daniels lawyer michael avenatti has written a letter to the treasury secretary that says in part, quote, the suspicious activity report could not have been filed by the bank unless the bank conducted a thorough internal investigation of the transaction and the source of the funds and had a good faith basis to determine that the $130,000 transaction was suspicious. we tracked the money based...

After decade after decade, they have been growingr at slower and slower pace. people are barely making ends meet. if you look at the past six out of the past seven months hourly earnings have actually been either flat or they have fallen. people arent really making much money. then you look at spending. spending is still growing pretty fast. income isnt growing really fast.. what are you going to do? take these credit cards and gethe desperate. >> tucker: this is an age old problem, when the maf...

Used to do this in immigrant neighborhood basically the exact same thing credit cards are doing. the feds cracked down on it and sent them to prison because you are not allowed to do that why do we let the credit card companies do the same thing. >> i think part of what we are seeing is that a lot of the financial services have been struggling to make money everywhere because we have had had interest rates pushed down so, so, so low. that doesnt give those banks much room to work to make money. ...

Checking account and lend it out like a mortgage or something. those rates have been so low that its been tough for them to make money. they have gotten desperate and gone out further and further into these kind of edgy activities. just to try to make money. >> tucker: preying on the weak. >> exactly. >> tucker: you said low interest rates. this is one of the many unintended consequences of fed policy. what happens when they go up as they are going to? >> yeah, well, your credit card payments ar...

That. >> ed: but in substance, are you going after robert mueller? >> we have nothing right now, our investigation we have right now is on fisa abuse, unmasking other matters that we are looking at. no, we are not calling in robert mueller or any of those. >> ed: so it is fake news. >> ed: new mexico fakeness. >> ed: "new york times" reporting that there has been a subpoena to the trump organization for documents related to russia. trump lawyers saying this is much ado about nothing, they have b...

Does that cross the line? >> the special counsel, this is part of the problem, he has an unlimited checking account, he can do whatever he wants whenever he wants, we have no control over it. i have no idea what he is doing that. i can tell you this, so far, what we have seen, there is no evidence of collusion, we have not seen robert mueller and his team look at major felony leaks that we know about. and those felony leaks that are out there, nobody is investigating from what we can tell, and t...

>> and treated him like this is someone we need to tack seriously? >> yes. >> any time you do an interview like that, its best to do it in that setting. it plays on their emotions. >> did you ever consider the possibility that carl could have paid somebody to do this? >> yeah, i thought about it. >> did you know why you were considered somebody that they needed to talk to? >> once i got in there and they started questioning me, then i knew that i was a suspect. >> as detective allison continued ...

Potential evidence in her case. this message from a new york bank showing donald trumps personal lawyer was using the trump organization e-mail account to arrange a $130,000 pay off to keep daniels quiet. until now, michael kohn maintained he did himself and the president or the trump organization were not involved. the payment was to keep stormy from talking about allegations she has a sexual affair with trump. stormy daniels attorney had this to say -- >> we are going to get discovery, documen...

How do you explain the "wall street journal" report not being reimbursed. cohn sent a two-word response, fake news. what they show are a bank sending michael cohn at his trump organization e-mail address this note, the trumps have been deposited into your checking account. forwarding that message to stormy daniels. all of this to handle the payoff on candidate trumps behalf 11 days before the election. did donald trump know about the business cohn was burying.

Beverly hills. here is drew griffin with more on all of this. >> reporter: the e-mails are brief. first republic bank advising that the funds have been 2k30ae deposited into your checking account. he forwards the message. what is potentially damaging for cohen, the e-mail account he jed at trump org.com is a trump company e-mail account which could indicate that trump organization was somehow involved in a $130,000 payment to silence a porn actress. >> i think this development is significant bec...