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Details about the fbi raid or raids, i suppose, as the word may be in multiple locations. >> right, we know of at least a couple locations. the law office that michael cohen has at 30 rockefeller center, and as well as a hotel there in midtown manhattan where he's been living. we also are told, according to "the wall street journal," that there was another search that was conducted at michael cohen's home. so at least, according to steven ryan, his attorney, there were multiple search warrants that were issued, that were conducted today as part of this investigation by the u.s. attorney's offi...

Today the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york executed a series of search warrants and seized the privilege communications between my client and his clients. i've been advised by federal prosecutors that the new york action is in part of a referral by the office of special counsel robert mueller. i have laura coats on the phone, former federal prosecutor. laura, your reaction to this? i'm no lawyer but it seems rather unusual for an attorney's office to be raided by the fbi. >> it is normally very unusual for that to happen. ands you have the attorney-clients privilege...

That she did and all of the crimes that were committed. they're not looking at all of the things that happened that everybody is very angry about, i can tell you, from the republican side and i think even the independent side. they only keep looking at us so they find no collusion and then they go from there and they say well, let's keep going and they raid an office of a personal attorney early in the morning and i think it's a disgrace. so we'll talk about it more but this is the most conflicted group of people i've ever seen. the attorney general made a terrible mistake when he did this and...

General of new jersey, former federal prosecutor, have you ever seen anything like this before? >> i have not and i would add to what jeff just said, if we look at the facts here, the facts are that robert mueller has been empowered to conduct an investigation, as part of that he allegedly we have reason to believe he found evidence of criminal activity that he believes should be referred to another law enforcement agency, to the u.s. attorney's office and as jeff just said, the decision of whether or not to have sought that search warrant was not made by robert mueller, this is a really impor...

Depositions under oath. chuck rosenberg, this has some familiar tone to the president's war on the justice department and the fbi. they seem -- and paul manafort's attacks really on the legitimacy of the scope of the special counsel. this seems to be a tactic and everyone's got the memo and this is going to be part of their strategy to attack the process. >> yeah, we seem to have heard this song before, nicolle. but don't forget, prosecutors and agents can't execute search warrants on their own accord. they need to go to a federal judge. and she needs to authorize it. and so they needed to s...