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Donald trump in the people he surrounds himself with. >> michael cohen retaining lanny davis in this role, a long time clinton aide and form white house council, lanny davis a huge critic of trump because he says hes a liarwho cant be trusted. now he of course is working with cohen which would suggest against trump. take a listen to mr. davis. >> ive never worked for a client that has lied to me or that i could trust not lying to me. thats the reason he cant find a great lawyer. its because he h...

Everything you just heard, what is the legal significance? >> well, in terms of the law the campaign violations are an obvious one. but in terms of the strength of the evidence to show that, i thought the times story just before the quote that you had was significant because it shows knowledge of both men, cohen and trump, of what ami is doing with playmate mcdougal. he says, should we buy her story directly or should we buy it from ami? and then the question is should we pay in the check or sho...

And this is another example, ari, of the lack of judgment by donald trump and the people that he surrounds himself with. >> michael cohen, retaining lanny davis in this role, a long-time clinton aide and a former white house counsel, something we reported, something you tracked, something that seemed significant, lanny davis is a huge critic of trump because he says hes a liar who cant be trusted. now he, of course, is working with cohen, which would suggest against trump. take a listen to mr. d...

Tonight. michael cohen taped donald trump two months before the 2016 election, and they discussed secret payments potentially to be made to former playboy model karen mcdougal who had a relationship with trump in 2006. she has -- well get to that. what else do you need to know? investigators have this tape. the fbi seizing it from cohens office in april after that raid cohens opponent in the stormy daniels case made some news on this show by declaring he knew for a fact this type of tape exist...

Well get to that. what else do you need to know? investigators have this tape. the fbi seizing it from cohens office in april. after that raid cohens opponent in the case, michael avenatti, made some news on this show by declaring he knew for a fact this type of tape existed. >> i know for a fact donald trump is on at least one of these recordings already. >> how do you know that? >> im not going to get into the details -- >> would you say that in court? >> absolutely. >> donald trump is on one ...

My personal attorneys, good man, and its a disgraceful situation, its a total witch hunt, ive been saying it for a long time. >> as you heard the president say there, he believes the fbi broke in. those were his words. why would the fbi raid cohens office, his home, the hotel room, rather than simply subpoena him, pierre? >> reporter: david, they clearly wanted to catch him offguard. and in cases like this, there is also typically a concern that documents might get destroyed without an element o...