through the president's legal
team.
>> i'd love to, nicolle.
i'd also push back on some of
the things giuliani was saying
to the daily beast.
so, what we have is that weeks
prior to the raid, the fbi in
new york started or the
prosecutors of new york got a
warrant to wiretap michael
cohen.
they were able to get text,
e-mails and wiretaps on his many
phone lines.
leading up to the raid and
continuing.
and in order to do that you have
to show a judge that there is
ongoing criminal activity and
that you cannot get that
information in other ways.
there's no way of subpoenaing
documents or getting
cooperation, that it has come to
this point and you have to then
do a wiretap.
and we also understand now that
there was a conversation between
a line at the white house and
lines connected to michael cohen
that was picked up as a result
of this wiretap.
this comes against even advice
that had been given to trump not
to talk to michael cohen.
although it's not really clear
this had come from...