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Tv. this is about the president, directly. which may be why the people directly involved in this case in new york appear to be a little rattled as this thing has continued to unfold. but as i said, this -- this is unfolding in new york, where prosecutors are -- have gotten very, very good, because they've had lots and lots of experience at nailing people in public corruption cases. this is also new york, where any legal drama plays out in the same geographic space as the financial and media capital of the country. and so, there is an absurd media part of this case that continues to unfold, as ...

Prosecutors took over the u.s. attorney's office for awhile, but then in january, the president installed a new interim u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york, his name is jeffrey berman. he's a trump donor. he worked on the trump transition. he is a law partner of trump's friend rudy giuliani. he controversially took a meeting about the u.s. attorney job before trump named him to the position in january. by january, we now know that office hads apparently opened this criminal investigation into the president's lawyer, into michael cohen. and according to "the new york times" now, ...

Able to provide cohen and his lawyers that the materials that the fbi agents seized from him during its searches last week. they say both sides are asking for a court date of may 25th. that is when the judge in the case could decide who would review those documents to decide what investigators can look at. the two options a group of prosecutors known as a filter team, which the government prefers, or one person, a so-called special master, which michael cohen is asking for. today the government submitted three recommendations for that role. all of them are former magistrate judges who are resi...

Honor, all of us started on monday with a completely different matter. i want to say, there are five photographs in attachment a that deal directly with seeking the papers of the president of the united states in possession of my client. it's not what the government is represented is about my client's personal life. there are five photographs there. this case is that. so, this is -- you can tell that cohen's lawyers are a little bewildered here. the transcript catches them apologizing to the court. can we put up that last part of the transcript there again? this is what he says. "there are fiv...

Heart within an administration about a policy isn't the craziest thing in the world. but to have something formally announce and then to have another government secretly back channel assured that a u.s. government official shouldn't be listened to on this matter? that just strikes me as something you wouldn't believe in a movie. >> it's pretty strange when you're dealing with these kinds of stakes, you know. to have one very senior person who is clearly trying to deliver the message of the united states be both undercut and, you know, also on the other shoe, if you will, to be communicating so...