michael cohen's banking records became public. we learned he had all these consulting contracts. that was something that the special counsel's office had also investigated to see what the connections were. there was nothing ever charged related to the relationships or anything illegal about the relationships. but it was part of the effort by michael cohen once he did not go to washington with trump when he became president that he started to look for these consulting contracts with various companies. essentially selling his access to the president and his knowledge of the president. pop poppy? >> thank you. we'll let you get back to it. paul, let's talk about the significance of the fact we have learned from this that mueller's team of prosecutors was requesting multiple search warrants on michael cohen before the case was referred to the sdny. >> mueller had obviously developed leads suggesting a