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Federal prosecutors collected communications between cohen and his clients, including those between the lawyer and mr. trump according to two sources. in a statement cohen's lawyer said prosecutor's decision to conduct their investigation using search warrants is completely inappropriate and unnecessary, adding it resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney/client communications between a lawyer and his clients. matt apuzzo, you were one of the first reporters on this story, just suss through a little bit of how this went down. >> michael cohen's lawyer says that his understandin...

And louis burgdorf. >> the personal lawyer michael cohen's offices raided. they obtained the search warrant in coordination with the special counsel's office after receiving a referral from robert mueller's team. a payment cohen arranged to stormy daniels is only one of many topics being investigated. the fbi also seized e-mails, tax documents and business records, this according to the person that spoke to the new york times. cohen is under federal investigation for possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations according to three people with knowledge of the case. federal pr...

Star stormy daniels for her alleged affair with the president 11 days before the election. they're investigating that payment to daniels which watchdog groups call a campaign violation. they retrieved e-mail, tax documents. federal prosecutors obtained search warrants after a referral from special counsel robert mueller who found evidence of a potential crime but determined the matter didn't involve the russia investigation. cohen's attorney lashing out calling the move completely inappropriate and unnecessary saying the fbi seized privileged communications and arguing cohen has cooperated com...

Negotiation, they want to hit the farmers because they think that hits me, i wouldn't say that's nice, but i tell you, our farmers are great patriots. these are great patriots, they understand that they're doing this for the country. and we'll make it up to them. but i say it's not nice when they hit the farmers, specifically because they think that hits me. >> coming up next, a look at this morning's one big thing from axios, and much more on the fbi's raid on the office and hotel of president trump's long-time personal lawyer, mike cohen. what the coordination with special counsel's team sig...

Which you write that trump and cohen's relationship or privilege goes only so far. explain why. >> yes, the attorney/client privilege is a protection that can be stripped away if it's being abused. under what's called the crime fraud exception and it makes sense. i mean, the attorney client privilege of communications about past crimes, it hay involve communications about sensitive, embarrassing information, but the privilege ends and can be removed if it's used for advice about ongoing and future crimes or planning a future crime or fraud. those are reasons that -- that the attorney client pr...