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Million of benefit on the initial report. we made it known that it was a preliminary report. had we included that, had we included that, we would have identified somewhere in the neighborhood of $4.5 million worth of transactions. michael cohen and his attorneys want to talk about $20,583. but here is what they don't want to talk about. they don't want to talk about novartis. they don't want to talk about at&t. they don't want to talk about the korean aerospace company that you mentioned. they don't want to talk about the russian oligarch and that entity. they haven't poked any holes in that. ...

>> mr. avenatti was back on television tonight, two hours ago in this very studio pushing back hard on all of this. here is what he told rachel maddow. >> this is really a clear example, rachel, of ignoring the elephants in the room and concentrating on the fleas on the floor. and what do i mean by that? so in the report that we issued, we identified about $3,180,503 worth of financial transactions. they've taken issue with a whopping $20,583, okay? that i have taken issue with a whopping -- we struck a percentage and our report seemings to be 99.935% accurate. if there was an election it wo...

Whopping 20,5$20,583. so we struck a percentage, our report appears to be 99.35% accurate which if this was election that would be pretty good for the popular vote. >> so all of this back and forth comes ahead of a deadline for a special to figure out whether items taken from michael cohen in the raid fall under attorney client privilege kristin welker is at the white house. talk to us about some of the payments to michael cohen here. >> reporter: first to the argument that michael cohen, his attorney are making. they point to the fact that some of the camps that he uses in that document that ...

The fleas on the floor. and what do i mean by that? so in the report that we issued, we identified about $3,180,503 worth of financial transactions. so $3,180,503. they've taken issue with a whopping $20,583. so we struck a percentage. our report appears to be 99.35% accurate, which if we this was an election, that would be pretty good for the popular vote. >> i think part of the reason that this is resonating, the argument is resonating, because everybody, people who are sympathetic to your case, people who are hostile to your case, people who are intrigued by what you are reporting, everybod...

Michael cohen and his attorneys have filed a document with the court in the southern district of new york where he's fighting his case, and he is complaining about this document that you've released raising issues in particular with the small dollar amounts that you attribute to a bank account associated with him. they're saying that all of those small dollar amounts were different michael cohens. they weren't him, that it casts aspersions on your whole document. >> well, let's address that, okay. this is really a clear example, rachel, of ignoring the elephant in the room and concentrating on...