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As the douglas factors, and one of the factors to me stands out. what was the harm to the fbis reputation? here, the harm, i think, is incalculable. a senior executive who certainly should know better, wrapped within an adulterous affair. none of this is good for the fbi. writ large, for retired folks like me. i think that harm, i think, gave the deputy director plenty of latitude to say, termination. >> and gave president trump fodder on a daily basis. he tweeted about him, the fact that he had...

Held to a higher standard. thats all there is to it. we were expected to operate above and beyond the call of duty. integrity was an integral, central part of our role, of our service to the united states government. i agree with chris wray and the assistant directors decision. >> following up, the president tweeted about ten times just in recent days on this topic, including about the attorney-general. they were all in on it. clear hillary clinton framed donald trump for things he didnt do. on ...

Michael cohen. according to new reporting they were conducted by the fbi public construction unit. searching rooms where michael cohen was staying as well as his office. and his home as well. the warrants stem from a matter referred by the russia special counsel and overseen by a trump attorney and connected to the stormy daniels case. her attorney michael avenatti joins us now. just from your unique vantage point what do you make of what went down today? >> anderson, this is a very, very seriou...

Wrong. nobody broke into michael cohens office and nobody, not even the president is above the law. a dozen fbi agents armed with search warrants legally seized documents from cohens office. his hotel room. a source telling cnn those documents are related to stormy daniels. another source telling cnn the search warrant was very broad and included bank records for president trump to use this as an attack on him and the country. also telling cnn that the cohen raid sent the president over the edge...

If rosenstein resigned rather than do it, the next person in line, the associate attorney general, that person would then have to decide whether to do it. that is the pattern that went on in the saturday night massacre when richard nixon fired archibald cox. you had the attorney general elliott richardson refused to do it. you had the deputy attorney general refused to do it, and finally robert bork, the solicitor general, did it. basically, the president would have to work his way through the h...

Something happening in his branch that could affect him and i suspect there might have been a courtesy call. but can he turn around and build this into a case to fire mueller? its going to be very tough because as i said earlier i think this is a lot of the southern districts own doing and how this was handled. >> josh, does a lot of this come back to the presidents firing of fbi director comey last may? again, the president kind of revisited that firing again today, going on about how he did th...

Those records that were seized, those documents that dont relate to him performing services as an attorney for donald trump and we know he often served as his business adviser. he wasnt always acting as donald trumps attorney. there wont be any confidentiality, there wont be attorney/client with respect to any of those documents. i think michael cohen and donald trump, i cant emphasize enough how much they have made their own beds in this situation and been their worst enemies in terms of the rh...

What happened here. the reporting is so fresh, it is unclear to me whos really running this investigation. the reporting suggests that it is the southern district of new york, u.s. attorneys office which is where i used to work and i used to be the u.s. attorney myself that approved the raid. according to the u.s. attorney manual, for a search to be done on a lawyers residence or office, it is an especially sensitive kind of search that has to be approved personally by the united states attorney...

My personal attorneys, a good man. and its a disgraceful situation. its a total witch hunt. >> its interesting that the president of the united states said the fbi broke into the office of one of his attorneys. there was no breaking in. the fbi had a fully legal search warrant to conduct those raids. anytime the fbi is going to raid a lawyers office particularly a lawyer for the president of the united states, you would think they would have every t crossed and every i dotted. >> anderson, youre...

Purposes of wiring this money that he was not truthful and honest with the bank as to the purpose of those accounts and what they were designed to be used for. weve never stated that publicly. im going to state it publicly tonight. that could be one basis for the raids. but again, i think this is a very, very serious matter. theres a strong likelihood in my opinion that the u.s. attorneys office or the special counsel will be able to pierce the attorney-client privilege between michael cohen and...