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The anonymous source who leaked michael cohen's financial records to the press is coming forward. a law enforcement official tells the new yorker's ronan farrow he was the source and motivated to leak cohen's financial records after he saw two documents, documenting suspicious financial transactions, had just disappeared from a government database. >> cnn's mj lee to lay out what's going on with this. >> what we're talking about here are suspicious activity reports and these are reports that banks are supposed to file to the treasury department when they see suspicious activity. now, we know t...

Release these documents. >> sure. and it's inconceivable that someone would be allowed to do that, right. just because they feel like it's not getting to law enforcement. all of a sudden you're having an employee of law enforcement employee all of a sudden just release this. >> acre to the reporting this person said that it's not common. in fact unheard for the documents not to be in the government database. and the fact that two key documents which were the -- i believe the sars were not there. i guess they were concerned there was a cover-up. the counterargument to it is it's possible muelle...

There is more news breaking ton. tonight we learn about how and why records got out showing that michael cohen's shell company, the limited liability company, essential -- what was it called -- essential consultants i guess the one he created to facilitate the payments to stormy daniels also received payments from several companies. in the new yorker ronan farrow reports that a law enforcement official is the one who leak the confidential documents. this official according to the reporting grew alarmed after being unable to find two important reports on cohen's financial activity in a governme...

There is more news breaking tonight. tonight we learn about how and why records got out showing that michael cohen's shell company, the limited liability company, essential -- what was it called -- essential consultants i guess the one he created to facilitate the payments to stormy daniels also received payments from several companies. in the new yorker ronan farrow reports that a law enforcement official is the one who leak the confidential documents. this official according to the reporting grew alarmed after being unable to find two important reports on cohen's financial activity in a gove...

That, right. just because they feel like it's not getting to law enforcement. all of a sudden you're having an employee of law enforcement employee all of a sudden just release this. >> acre to the reporting this person said that it's not common. in fact unheard for the documents not to be in the government database. and the fact that two key documents which were the -- i believe the sars were not there. i guess they were concerned there was a cover-up. the counterargument to it is it's possible mueller's team according to ronan reporting experts he talk to it's possible that mueller's team ba...