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Part of a bunch of categories in what has been described to me by several sources as a lengthy search warrant. and in terms of the "access hollywood" component, it's looking for communications that cohen may have had, i think either with the president or just on his own around that tape, as well as any other negative information that could have existed about the president, negative news stories, negative publicity around the president. so, it's a pretty broad scope, but gets very specific around "access hollywood." it's not clear what role cohen would have had about "access hollywood." that wa...

Gloria borger has the latest. >> reporter: alex and christine, sources tell me that the fbi agents that raided michael cohen's home, office and hotel room on monday were looking for communications between then candidate trump and cohen and perhaps others about efforts to prevent the release of the infamous "access hollywood" tape. you remember this. it captured donald trump making lewd remarks about women before the election. the warrant specifically references trump in the search warrant. that is a direct mention of donald trump in the search warrant. sources say it appeared in connection to ...

Trump's lawyer in this matter, charles harder, but has not gotten a response. a hearing date on the motion to depose the president and cohen is set for april 30th. and avenatti is also asking that a jury trial be set for no later than 90 days after the court decides this motion or as soon as is convenient to the court. so he's definitely keeping the pressure on. wolf? >> athena, thank you very much. athena jones reporting. let's bring in cnn's senior legal analyst, former u.s. attorney, preet bharara. preet, could the president eventually be deposed in this specific case? >> the word "deposed"...

Athena, daniels' lawyer keeps turning up the heat on president trump. >> reporter: wolf, that is absolutely right. michael avenatti has been doing everything he can to keep this story in the headlines. this latest salvo comes just a couple of days after avenatti amended daniels' original complaint to now sue the president's personal lawyer, michael cohen, for defamation. avenatti is arguing that cohen has implied that daniels is lying about the affair she said she had with trump. now, we've been talking a lot about how quiet president trump has been on this whole daniels story. now avenatti is...

Saying he asked trump's lawyer in a meeting last week whether the president was a party to the hush agreement. >> we heard crickets. they say they don't know whether or not mr. trump was a party to this agreement. he said, we haven't figured it out yet, to which i responded, well, why don't you just ask donald trump? >> david schwartz, cohen's lawyer in another matter, who is also serving as his spokesman, called the motion to depose trump and cohen a reckless use of the political system and a politically motivated cha ra ed. avenatti is confident his motion will succeed, citing precedent in t...