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Part of a bunch of categories in what has been described to me by several sources as a lengthy search warrant. and in terms of the "access hollywood" component, its looking for communications that cohen may have had, i think either with the president or just on his own around that tape, as well as any other negative information that could have existed about the president, negative news stories, negative publicity around the president. so, its a pretty broad scope, but gets very specific around "...

Gloria borger has the latest. >> reporter: alex and christine, sources tell me that the fbi agents that raided michael cohens home, office and hotel room on monday were looking for communications between then candidate trump and cohen and perhaps others about efforts to prevent the release of the infamous "access hollywood" tape. you remember this. it captured donald trump making lewd remarks about women before the election. the warrant specifically references trump in the search warrant. that i...

Trumps lawyer in this matter, charles harder, but has not gotten a response. a hearing date on the motion to depose the president and cohen is set for april 30th. and avenatti is also asking that a jury trial be set for no later than 90 days after the court decides this motion or as soon as is convenient to the court. so hes definitely keeping the pressure on. wolf? >> athena, thank you very much. athena jones reporting. lets bring in cnns senior legal analyst, former u.s. attorney, preet bharar...

Athena, daniels lawyer keeps turning up the heat on president trump. >> reporter: wolf, that is absolutely right. michael avenatti has been doing everything he can to keep this story in the headlines. this latest salvo comes just a couple of days after avenatti amended daniels original complaint to now sue the presidents personal lawyer, michael cohen, for defamation. avenatti is arguing that cohen has implied that daniels is lying about the affair she said she had with trump. now, weve been tal...

Saying he asked trumps lawyer in a meeting last week whether the president was a party to the hush agreement. >> we heard crickets. they say they dont know whether or not mr. trump was a party to this agreement. he said, we havent figured it out yet, to which i responded, well, why dont you just ask donald trump? >> david schwartz, cohens lawyer in another matter, who is also serving as his spokesman, called the motion to depose trump and cohen a reckless use of the political system and a politi...

Up two hours each. >> we want to know the truth about what the president knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it. >> reporter: part of an effort, avenatti says, to get to the truth, as his client fights to be let out of what he argues is an invalid hush agreement, aimed at preventing daniels from talking about an alleged 2006 affair with trump. >> when we get to the bottom of this, were going to prove to the american people that they have been told a bucket of lies. >> reporter: in addit...

Donald trump in the search warrant. sources say it appeared in connection to the tape. this warrant is the first indication that the investigators suspect there was an effort to suppress the tape. we dont know what, if any, role cohen or the president would have played in that. we are also learning that investigators wanted records pertaining to bank fraud and wire fraud investigations and on top of that, the warrant involved communications about other potential negative information about trump ...