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Raiding the personal attorney, michael cohen and his offices. hes the attorney for president trump. >> so it seems what youre seeing, jake, is mueller coming across in the course of his investigation evidence of criminal wrongdoing which is beyond the scope of his mandate so most likely he went to rod rosenstein pursuant to the regulations that governor muellers conduct and said, what would you like me to do with this and rosenstein said or they both agreed this is best handled by the southern d...

By the president we dont know, but you cant say this has nothing to do with mr. trump. >> i want to bring in josh campbell, our cnn law enforcement analyst and supervisor agent. this is not a easy decision for special counsel robert mueller or for the u.s. attorney in manhattan to go ahead and authorize a no-knock raid like this on the office of the presidents long-time personal attorney. >> it is not. and this will start with the highest level of the department of justice and signed off been se...

Stormy daniels otherwise known as stephanie clifford and her attorney michael avenatti just treated an enormous amount of misplaced faith has been on cohen. and this could end very badly for donald trump trump and others. i want to bring in evan perez. the u.s. attorneys office for the southern district of new york, they execute this -- this series of warrants, this search of michael cohens office but this action is in part a referral by the office of special counsel. so is this part of the muel...

That is found in the location. it is certainly -- does mean that mr. cohen is in serious legal jeopardy and in trouble. there is no question about it. you do not go for a search warrant lightly. it is one of those things you need to have sufficient evidence as josh just said, where you have someone who is going in front of a judge and an assistant u.s. attorney based on law enforcement information to say, look, we believe this claim has been committed and here is the evidence. it is a high level...

They do handle all types of federal criminal matters on a dai daily basis. so it strikes me he is trying to stay within the haeart lap-- heartland and he got information that made him believe there was evidence of criminality beyond the clear scope. >> what do you think, joey? >> i think what happens is we have to be mindful, when investigators investigate, they uncover critical things. and no matter the map da-- mandate, you just dont ignore something may be criminal. and the focus of the inves...

Were back with breaking news. cnn has confirmed the u.s. attorneys employees have raided the offices of president trumps long-time lawyer michael cohen. stephen ryan, his lawyer released this statement to cnn, quote, today the u.s. attorneys office for the southern district of new york executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client michael cohen and his clients. one of his clients is the president of the united states. ive been advised by federal ...

$130,000 for their clients. so in many ways, michael cohen is not acting as a lawyer here, he is really acting as a member of the organization and where that falls when it comes to attorney-client privilege, i dont know yet. but there are real issues of what was actually going on in these communications and what role michael cohen was -- >> and the attorney said this isnt necessary because michael cohen was cooperating with house and senate committees, fully cooperating with other government ent...

To know why is mueller even getting to this question -- >> this has nothing to do with election interference. >> this is nothing to do with election interference. and i think mueller has arrived at same conclusion. even if there is something here to be investigated, it is not for him to do and it is the jurisdiction of the manhattan u.s. attorney. so that appears -- again, according to what stephen ryan has told "the new york times," and the southern district of new york, the u.s. attorney in ma...

Communications between attorney and client are indeed privileges and that has to be respected because when you meet with a client you need to make sure your client tells you everything. let me pivot for a moment. to extent that any communication may be predicated upon fraud, there is something called the crime fraud exception and that would take it out of the privilege. what does that mean? in the event you have conversations about destroying evident and no privilege applies and in the event the...

Could find. in the form of paper or electronic communications. we dont know exactly what this has to do with, though in the course of seizing the documents, could have been then because it wasnt necessarily what they were looking for, documents related to the $130,000 payment michael cohen made in october 2016 to stephanie clifford, a.k.a. stormy daniels, as part of her agreeing to the confidentiality agreement she has been fighting with her attorney michael avenatti to get out of for some time....