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>> everybody sit tight. weve got a big morning ahead. for the last few weeks, much of the focus was on what does michael cohen know about stormy daniels. its now clear the questions go far deeper than that. well look to cohens connections to russia and what investigators might be searching for, "morning joe" is coming right back. was a bad idea. [cougar growling] [passenger] what are you doing? [driver] i cant believe that worked. i dropped the keys. [burke] and we covered it. talk to farmers, w...

Prosecution team. theyll review all of the evidence for deciding what should be turned over to the prosecution team and in that sense any information that involves criminal conduct between cohen and any of his clients or cohens independent criminality, any of that information can be seized without violating attorney/client privilege. >> that could be quite revealing. >> before we end this block, i think its important to the concept of reporting fact as to how the referral process works. we have ...

People want to meet donald trump. >> the outside counsel intimated you may have a meeting with the russian president. do you plan on trying to do that? >> well i had heard that he wanted to meet with me and certainly i am open to it i would love to do that if he wants to do that. i dont know that its going to take place, im not sure. i know people have been talking. but well see what happens. >> cohen went on to pursue the construction of a trump tower in moscow. he told the "washington post" th...

Bank fraud and campaign finance violations. land most "the wall street journal" reported that first republic bank flagged cohens $130,000 hush money payment to the treasury department as suspicious. the company that made a payment that was created in mid october. within ten days the funds went through and daniels signed the mda, cohen says he made the payment using his own money. a home equity loan. but while michael cohen is at the center of the porn star payment, days before the election, the ...

Schneiderman, the new york state attorney general. are these investigations metastasizing to such a degree that a firing of bob mueller may bring immediate rebuke from the senate but also wont stop these investigations because theyre multilayered now. >> i think we have all discussed not only the presidents tweet in just the past few minutes but what the president said yesterday after watching on cable a bunch of the reports of the not a break in but the raid or the executing of the search warra...

Federal prosecutors collected communications between cohen and his clients, including those between the lawyer and mr. trump according to two sources. in a statement cohens lawyer said prosecutors decision to conduct their investigation using search warrants is completely inappropriate and unnecessary, adding it resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney/client communications between a lawyer and his clients. matt apuzzo, you were one of the first reporters on this story, just sus...

And louis burgdorf. >> the personal lawyer michael cohens offices raided. they obtained the search warrant in coordination with the special counsels office after receiving a referral from robert muellers team. a payment cohen arranged to stormy daniels is only one of many topics being investigated. the fbi also seized e-mails, tax documents and business records, this according to the person that spoke to the new york times. cohen is under federal investigation for possible bank fraud, wire fraud...

Star stormy daniels for her alleged affair with the president 11 days before the election. theyre investigating that payment to daniels which watchdog groups call a campaign violation. they retrieved e-mail, tax documents. federal prosecutors obtained search warrants after a referral from special counsel robert mueller who found evidence of a potential crime but determined the matter didnt involve the russia investigation. cohens attorney lashing out calling the move completely inappropriate and...

Negotiation, they want to hit the farmers because they think that hits me, i wouldnt say thats nice, but i tell you, our farmers are great patriots. these are great patriots, they understand that theyre doing this for the country. and well make it up to them. but i say its not nice when they hit the farmers, specifically because they think that hits me. >> coming up next, a look at this mornings one big thing from axios, and much more on the fbis raid on the office and hotel of president trumps ...

Which you write that trump and cohens relationship or privilege goes only so far. explain why. >> yes, the attorney/client privilege is a protection that can be stripped away if its being abused. under whats called the crime fraud exception and it makes sense. i mean, the attorney client privilege of communications about past crimes, it hay involve communications about sensitive, embarrassing information, but the privilege ends and can be removed if its used for advice about ongoing and future c...