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We have seen from the president. whenever somebody is sort of no longer on the president's side, what he does is he attacks them and he sort of minimizes the role that they played in his work or his campaign. we saw him do this with paul manafort, who was his campaign chairman. >> mj, fascinating reporting. thank you. you can read it all on cnn.com. >> let's hop over to breaking news at the white house. secretary of state mike paompeo about to walk out and brief reporters. you'll see this live, on his conversation with the president on the disappearance of the journalist, jamal khashoggi. here...

Done by tomorrow? >> reporter: that's the hope, fareed. the hope is that they can get those oxygen supplies reliably fueled and they can get those kids out as fast as possible because the rains are coming, and you know well, this is july in thailand, it's going to rain and it's going to rain a lot so they have to get these boys out before the water levels start to rise. >> matt rivers, fascinating reporting. outside the hospital in chiang rai. we will be back.

Fascinating reporting, dan, thank you. and you can see much more of dan's report on a special edition of "nightline" tonight, right after jimmy kimmel. set your dvr. we move on tonight to new developments in the case of michael cohen. the president's embattled attorney and friend, facing growing questions over millions paid to a shell company set up by michael cohen. that money coming in after the election from major companies. even a firm with close ties to a russian oligarch. the question now, what was that money for, and was cohen making money off his proximity to the president? here's ab...

Manafort surveillance, and we should note that manafort has a residence in trump tower, though it's not clear if the fbi did surveillance on him there, anderson. >> fascinating reporting, pam brown, appreciate it. want to bring in the panel. scott jennings, asia, how tough as it to get two fisa warnings? >> these are pretty difficult to get. there's a statistic out there that only some handful of fisa orders get rejected, but that's because they go through a lot of vetting before they get to the fisa court. i've gotten these before, they're lengthy, 70 to 100 pages. you're listing the factual ...

You to make a -- just speaking theoretically here, there's no reason to make a case against what the special prosecutor is doing because the special counsel operates independently and can't have his probe shaped by people complaining about it from the white house. the reason you come up with those undercutting arguments is to justify having set a in to fire him. >> right. and a conflict of interest is one of the reasons an attorney general can cite to remove a special counsel under doj regulations. >> ashley parker, fascinating reporting. thank you for joining us on zero notice. >> thank you f...