investigators to open an investigation into whether or not somebody committed a crime and to eventually charge somebody with a crime. so let s let this play out in court. otherwise, it is just it is just one side rooting for the other. dan, to finish with you on that question. you made your objections clear. wiretaps are reporting, did happen. i object when they violate civil liberties of drug dealers, murderers, mass murderers. i don t care whose rights are being violated. i m nonpathnonpartisan. i m there to protect the rights of every single citizen. i ve defended people and others are appalled that i ve won those cases. i ll continue to defend civil liberties no matter how popular they are. so am i and so is the southern district of new york. that s the fundamental problem that you are saying, you are attributing false motives to the people who are charged with
press her on the revelations, the exclusive nbc news reporting, that michael cohen s phones were wiretapped in the days before the fbi raided his apartment. let s take a look at that exchange. is the president concerned that his own justice department authorized a wiretap that may have gathered communications between him and his personal attorney michael cohen? again, i m not sure of the comments on that report or the claims in that report. that s something you would have to talk with the department of justice and the president s outside counsel. when he learned the reporting that michael cohen s phones were wiretapped i vice president tahaven t tt that. i can t verify the validity of that report. reporter: so sarah sanders repeatedly referring a number of thorny questions to the president s outside counsel. but one thing that did stand out to me, steve, she did say she just learned that the president had reimbursed cohen last night when rudy giuliani said it on
indian prime minister th narendra modi and xi jjinping i china, how do they improve the relationship and has the president we don t have an official policy but certainly think it s always good when other world leaders are getting along. and certainly when we can cooperate, that s definitely a good thing. we have great relationship with both countries and hope to continue to do so. thanks, guys. all right. that was sarah huckabee sanders. the white house press secretary. concluding her briefing there on a very eventful day. again, the news broken by nbc just before that white house press briefing, is nbc news reporting exclusively that there had been a wiretap on donald trump s longtime lawyer, michael cohen, a phone tap in the weeks leading up to the raid of his home and his office. back in april. the exact duration of that wiretap, the exact date that it began, when it began, unclear
we also know for a fact that there was a electronic surveillance of e-mails and text messages. we were not aware of the phone tap until the reporting by nbc moments ago, an hour ago, thereabouts. but needless to say, i don t think in he of this bodes well for mr. cohen. i don t think any of it bodes well for mr. trump. i think it will ultimately bode very well for us and our prospects and our case. and i m going to go back to what i ve said pretty consistently, and that is there is zero county in my mind michael cohen will ultimately be charged with very seeress crimes and there s zero doubt he is going to roll over on the president. you say e-mails and texts that are related to your case? yes. how do you know that? i m not going to get into how i know that but i know that. let me ask you what we heard from rudy giuliani last night. we re getting some conflicting signals between what the president is saying on twitter and what rudy giuliani is saying. one of the things that g
afternoon that the president s personal attorney michael cohen used his trump company e-mail as he made arrangements to pay daniels the $130,000 for her silence. nbc news reporting, quote, an e-mail uncovered in the last 24 hours and provided to nbc news by clifford s current attorney shows first public bank and cohen communicated with the money using his trump company e-mail address, not his personal g-mail account. the significance he says, quote, i think this document seriously calls into question the prior representation of mr. cohen and the white house relating to the source of the moneys paid to ms. clifford in an effort to silence her. while our reporting doesn t tell us where the money came from, nbc can report, quote, according to a 2017 financial disclosure form, trump has a checking account at first republic with between 15 and $50,000 in it at