that part of the search warrant application was redacted. i m going to talk about that in a second. thank you both for joining me tonight. for more on what these tell us about the overall probe, i m joined by the former attorney for the southern district. on what matt just said, so there s an entire section. the one thing we thought was wrapped up in a neat bow was the illegal campaign donation scheme he s already pleaded guilty to. there s an entire section that s under the heading illegal campaign contribution scheme. it s 18 pages and we don t get to see it. what do you make of that? usually when something is redacted in a release wliek this, the yuls assumption is there s investigation still ongoing. so my take away is there s more conduct or both and the reason
april of last year. so it was really a very by the book, methodical probe. everyone thought at first was cohen in prague or was that all about? and that looks to be a dry hole. what do you think? is there any conclusion to be drawn about where things are based on the filings of the mueller folks that we ve got in terms of this release and the filings we ve seen over the last few days. we uncconsistently hear muel is holding up shop. it s easy for folks to forget that doj is literally the largest law firm. it s a little bit artificial to talk in terms of the mueller investigation. we have national investigation in u.s. attorneys offices, in
and questioned by federal agents who seized his electronic devices. we learned he met with cohen at trump tower to discuss u.s./russian relations just days before trump would take the oath of office. and then he and cohen later spent time together at the president s inauguration in washington. and we don t know what that s all about or why the firm started paying cohen shortly thereafter. what we do know is mueller s probe of those payments started way before the hush money investigation. in the special counsel ultimately handed off the cohen case to the southern district of new york, he did not give them the whole thing. the special counsel gave to the u.s. attorney s office. it s one of many questions that remain unanswered as we continue to wait for the special counsel
started paying cohen shortly thereafter. what we do know is mueller s probe of those payments started way before the hush money investigation. in the special counsel ultimately handed off the cohen case to the southern district of new york, he did not give them the whole thing. the special counsel gave to the u.s. attorney s office. it s one of many questions that remain unanswered as we continue to wait for the special counsel to show his cards in some form. deputy attorney general who first appointed mueller and has been on his way out is planning to stay on at the justice department a little bit longer. to break down what we learned is white reporter from nbc. and former chief spokesperson under attorney general eric holder.
the southern district of norb. we conceive of this latter strategy to protect the probe but if that was right, he was thinking in those terms already. one, to try to protect and two, just sort affa distribution of resources. he s got a core team and they were taking on a lot. i think it s quite interesting and we didn t learn until today how early into the probe he begins to distribute materials to the other officers. there s the essential question about was the work michael cohen doing a violation of law? we don t kind of know what becomes of the vexalberg part of it? whether they concluded this was not chargeable? it seems unlikely. i think it s frankly not possible for us to know right