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>> dane a good morning. this reported third trump investigation is from the district attorney office in the southern district of new york. the wallstreet journal reporting there are probes into the trump committee and super pack. they want to see the records of a one million dollar contribution to the inaugural committee from a tennessee developer named franklin haney. they say haney later sought a 5 billion loan for a nuclear power plant project. the new york time sites other contributions and a trump linked political action committee by what they call straw donors. foreign contributions to i...

Spending money. >> you also note in this art call, you remember to this tennessee developer, frank haney, he made a $1 million donation to the president's inaugural commit, and then in early april he hired michael cohen who at the same time was also trump's lawyer to help obtain a $5 billion loan from the energy department for a nuclear power plant. -ins also from a journal previous reporting, and he's been asked questions about these documents. i mean, michael cohen being in that deal is obviously something that federal investigators and prosecutors would be interested in. >> right. i think t...

Return for those donations. >> so how central to the probe are the tapes from michael cohen's office that we referenced earlier? why have they become so critical in this investigation? >> what we understand is this is partially where the investigation came from. there have been questions about the inauguration fund for a while. we know that mueller has looked into whether any foreign money went to the inaugural fund. but when fbi agents raided cohen's home, office and hotel room in april, they obtained this recorded conversation in which the top paid vendor for the inaugural fund expressed con...