daniels' keith davidson.im in an exclusive interview. >> michael cohen called me in the last week or two. >> reporter: what did he say to you? >> he called to offer his opinion as to whether or not miss daniels or mcdougal had waived -- he suggested that it would be appropriate for me to go out into the media and spill my guts. >> reporter: are you here at the behest of michael cohen? >> no. no. not in any way shape or form. >> reporter: but he did tell you to go out and spill your guts. why do you think that is? >> well, you would have to ask him. >> reporter: attorney keith davidson, is one of just a handful of people in one of two controversial and salacious cases involving president trump. >> were you in love with him? >> i was, yeah. >> reporter: and hired by porn star and director stormy daniels. davidson is now speaking exclusively to cnn after months of keeping quiet. do you believe what stormy daniels has said about the sexual encounter with mr. trump? >> i believe my client. >> reporter: and mcdouga

the initial attorney for the playmate, keith davidson, stormy daniels' former attorney. the names on the contract the same aliases that were used in this 2016 contract with stormy daniels, david davidson and peggy peterson. even the payments made from essential consultants llc, the company created that shelled out the money for stormy daniels. >> michael cohen is the common glue that sort of runs throughout this. >> this agreement was for elliott brody, a major gop fund-raiser and wealthy investor who owns a stake in a defense contracting company. ken vogel is a washington reporter for "the new york times." >> he was originally an investor where he invested pension funds and sort of other institutional client's money. but he's gotten involved in defense contracting where he's worked with foreign governments to help them with private intelligence collection. this has put him into contact with this sort of high-flying world of international intrigue. >> he's a very influential man in the business world and in a political sense. >> would you say powerful? >> i think anyone i

keith davidson is an absolute tool. say it on national television tonight because what he has done by giving this interview is really unheard of in the legal profession. for him to go out and comment on two matters, one for mcdougal and one for my client after he was terminated in both cases, all in an effort, i guess, to get his name out there or his face on competition, is really outrageous, and it's unethical, and there's going to be serious consequences that result from it. i'm shocked. >> you think he has violated attorney-client privilege? >> oh, i think he's violated the attorney-client privilege for both clients. i think he's violated numerous ethical canons. i know for a fact he was on notice from both clients that he was not to be communicating with the media. and it appears that the only reason he did it was because mr. cohen wanted him to do it. he was in contact with mr. cohen, who is encouraging him to go out on television and tell his story, presumably to support mr. cohen. i guess mr. davidson is now the

the sarah sidener sat down with keith davidson. >> don keith davidson talked about whether his contracts did have affairs have donald trump and he talked about the numerous times he had conversation was michael cohen, donald trump's personal attorney. it turns out the conversations continued even after he stopped representing both of the women. keith davidson calls it a coincidence that just before the presidential election he was involved in the deals for not one but two women who claim to have had affairs with donald trump, effectively keeping the stories secret. >> do you believe what stormy daniels said about the sexual encounter with mr. trump? >> you know, i believe my client. >> and karen mcdougal. >> yes. >> for the first time davidson is speaking exclusively to cnn, saying he is constrained by attorney client privilege but still giving new details about how the deals came about. stormy daniels' confidentiality deal signed days before the election started with a phone call from donald trump's personal attorney michael cohen. >> and michael cohen calls you up and says what? about

. -- keith davidson.avidson is an attorney who represented stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, two women who said they had affairs with president trump. he is no longer their lawyer, we should note. it is important to note that they recorded conversations between cohen and keith davidson, something cohen is known as a standard practice for him. it would be interesting, prosecutors are clearly looking to see what it was michael cohen knew about the payments, what exactly his role was in all of this. they have obviously been looking at not only his role in the payment to stormy daniels, but also what role he played in trying to suppress the information about karen mcdougal, the former "playboy" playmate who says she does d have -- she did have an affair with president trump. this is interesting because it could prove valuable to investigators as they look at the role he played. this is going on as the white house is still maintaining that michael cohen does represent president trump. they spoke yesterday. th

keith davidson and, michael cohen are carved out of this lawsuit. so, we'll see where things. >> that matter of it may still be live? >> yeah. karen wants to enjoy her privacy. but, we'll see where things go. there is a lot of information that i have learned, over time, and i am very confident that michael cohen and keith davidson and others will have to account for the things that they have done. >> peter straus, thank you for fighting with me about this tonight. thank you for being with mere. tell ms. mcdougal, if she would love to talk about it. i do not pay. but would love to have a full conversation about it. thank you. amanda's mom's appointment just got rescheduled - for today. amanda needs right at home. our customized care plans provide as much - or as little help - as her mom requires. whether it's a ride to the doctor or help around the house. oh, of course! tom, i am really sorry. i've gotta go. look, call right at home. get the right care. right at home. >>> i am baffled. a surprise settlement of the civil lawsuit brought by one woman p

keith davidson and michael cohen are carved out of this lawsuit.nd so we'll see where things go. >> that matter of it may still alive? >> yeah. karen wants to enjoy her privacy but we'll see where things go. there's a lot of information i have learned over time. and i'm very confident that michael cohen and keith davidson and others will have to account for the things that they've done. >> attorney for karen mcdougal. thank you for fighting with me about this tonight. please tell ms. mcdougal if she wants to talk to me, i do not pay but i'd be happy to talk to her. ♪ ♪ this is what getting your car serviced at lincoln looks like. complementary pickup and delivery servicing now comes with every new lincoln. i won. giving you, the luxury of time. that's the lincoln way. these are the specialists we're proud to call our own. experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care. expert medicine works here. learn more at cancercenter.com and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy, like..

we know keith davidson as you point out at some point represented stormy daniels and mcdougle and apparently rnc donor play mate with whom he had an affair. do you have any sense of the timing these tapes were made? did he have all of them? how many? >> that's a really good question. we don't know the answer to that. i mean, they just grabbed everything they could. and we know these two attorneys had multiple conversations. even cently, they had multiple conversations because as you'll recall in an interview with sara sidner on cnn, keith davidson said he spoke to, he spoke to michael cohen just recently who told him to spill his guts. so we know that there was some constant contact. but i would tell you that a spokesman for davidson tells sara sidner this evening he never consented to having anything recorded and he's willing to pursue his legal rights. recording conversations in certain states can be illegal e depending on where the parties are. >> i guess a lawyer in california andlaws. b i believe california, both parties need to know. new york only one u. i'm not a lawyer. >> that is ri

represented by keith davidson.d play mate model. all three using the same lawyer. sara sidner is out front. >> reporter: cnn has learned some of the cases that the fbi is investigating involved not just cohen but also los angeles based attorney keith davidson according to sources with knowledge of the investigation. >> i get involved in a situation when a relationship has gone bad. >> reporter: everybody knows about the two big cases two women who say they had sex with donald trump both initially represented by keith davidson. both of those deals was silenced seems like a strange coincidence that they both landed in your lap. >> not at all. i have an active practice and few attorneys that would go against large corporations, powerful celebrities and that is one thing that i am known for. >> reporter: there are three other cases involving both attorneys. davidson represented a playboy model who say broidy got her pregnant during their affair. negotiating a deal to pay her $1.6 million and to keep quiet about the dea

cohen reached out to me after being contacted by this woman's attorney keith davidson. all i had not previously hired mr. cone, he retained him after he informed me about his prior relationship with mr. davidson. >> it's a shrinking world of participants in what seems like an nda anniversary complex. how many more of these agreements can we expect to see. >> an nda industrial complex that federal prosecutors are looking at now. >> and to me, if we want to understand why trump is freaking out, when he when we hear michael cohen, we have to think ivanka and don junior. michael cohen and don junior and ivanka were the team that handled all the international deals with people we know to be money launders, sanctions violators, all sorts of financial criminals. the key criminal question for ivanka, don junior and possibly don, the president, is what did they know, when did they know it, how exposed were they to this. michael cohen is now the highest ranking person who knows all of that. he's under this kind of scrutiny. >> are you confident we'll know about this broidy payment

i think it has keith davidson's fingerprints all over it.hat's going to be the next guy to go down in this investigation. there is -- prosecutors don't believe in coincidences. the fact that keith davidson was a lawyer for all of these women in the hush money agreements on the other side with michael cohen, that's not a coincidence. i think that's where it is going next. >> the media, what does law enforcement do with this sketch? a sketch, detailed sketch, one that is seven years -- from memory seven years ago and they're putting it out in the public. >> right. this is not a law enforcement sketch, just to be clear. so avenatti and stormy daniels took this on themselves. now, it is not to say that, you know, state investigators and, you know, las vegas, nevada, if you will, would be interested in this. this isn't a federal issue. this is more of a state criminal issue. >> that's interesting. what else now? >> i think you bringing up keith davidson is really, really key. i remember this is the lawyer who is involved in both the stormy daniel

sources tell cnn agents obtained voice recording of cohen talking to keith davidson. cohen spoke to davidson many times for various reasons. just some of the many things he did on mr. trump's behalf. >> he did everything for donald trump. he was the fixer. >> he's a street lawyer, he's a fighter and he's tenacious. that's what donald trump loves about cohen. >> cohen knows where all the bodies are buried because he may bury a lot of them. >> what did he bury leading up to the 2016 election and could it lay him in prison? >> cnn anchor, don lemon, spoke with him earlier this week. >> he worries that in the end everything is proven that he did is legal. he's worried they'll look for something to charge him with. >> and, what about the president? if cohen ends up charged with a crime, what does that mean for him? >> michael cohen is the man who kept donald trump's secrets and now the fbi has access to every single one of those secrets. that's a big deal. >> in addition to the information of stormy daniels, sources tell cnn agents were also looking for other ways cohen ma

and there's lots of questions as to how michael cohen and keith davidson had been working together behindes. >> okay. and this article says that davidson and cohen have been accused of collaborating, working behind the scenes, yet davidson indicates that he might sue cohen if he secretly recorded their conversations. why is this so critical? >> sure. i mean, this is definitely critical because who's playing who here? stormy daniels, karen mcdougal and another woman, a former maybe model namd share ia brashard. karen mcdougal says he was includeding with michael cohen behind his back. we have all these questions about why these men have such a solid rapport with one another. >> what about in terms of the motives of stormy daniels and karen mcdougal when they tried to go public about then-candidate trump. does your reporting give you more insight as to what the reason is for that? >> sure. we can say that these women knew that trump was the republican front-runner, they knew they had stories to share and at a time when women were accusing trump of sexual misconduct and they felt they could

keith davidson is cooperating with federal authorities who are investigating trump attorney michael cohen been asked by pr prosecutors in the southern district of new york to provide electronic information according to his spokesman he has done so and will continue to cooperate under the fullest extent possibly under the law. when lawyers have lawyers it's bad. when lawyers have lawyers who have spokesmen, go ahead and set yourself on fire. we'll be right back. my time is thin, but so is my lawn. now there's new scotts thick 'r lawn 3-in-1 solution. with a soil improver! seed! and fertilizer to feed! ♪ ♪ now yard time is our time. this is a scotts yard. i ...prilosec otc 7 years ago,my doctor recommended... 5 years ago, last week. just 1 pill each morning, 24 hours and zero heartburn. it's been the number 1 doctor recommended brand for 10... ...straight years, and it's still recommended today. use as directed. with expedia, you can book a flight, hotel, car, and activity... ...all in one place. everything you need to go. expedia let your inner light loose with one a day women's. ♪ a compl

his name is keith davidson. he brokered both of their hush money deals with the president. always seemed peculiar to a lot of people. this puts co-en into a position where he can either, you know, flip and work with the federal investigators or also have the option of now holding off and facing jail time. what's the significance from your understanding of keith davidson now playing a role in this investigation? >> i think it underlines that anybody who gets wrapped one trump and michael cohen and various settlements and hush money, they all get pressure and eventually cooperate. we're still waiting on paul manafort, as well. so with michael cohen, it's a real question, i think we'll have to wait a few weeks or months until robert mueller has some actual charges to bring against cohen because they'll alert cohen's lawyers and say that we'll charge you unless you flip. so that will maybe speed up the process for cohen actually singing to the furthers. >> this of course -- being in new york, this may accelerate the charges. to your point, there's a lot to discuss, the justice

keith davidson talked to us about whether he believed his clients.r that the white house has repeatedly denied there ever was an affair between donald trump and stormy daniels, the porn star and director and donald trump and karen mcdougal, the former playboy model. keith davidson, we asked him, do you believe your clients had affairs with donald trump? he said, i believe my clients. we asked him about both women, and he affirmatively said he believed them when it comes to that. he said the whole truth isn't out. we also talked to him about the numerous phone calls that he made to michael cohen, and the calls that michael cohen made to him. now, you'll remember that michael cohen is donald trump's personal attorney. but those phone calls didn't just happen while he was doing these deals with these two women. they actually began and continued until after he was no longer the attorney for these two women. take a listen. >> he was encouraging me and informing me as to his opinion that they in fact had waved the attorney/client privilege and he suggested

almost identical confidentiality agreements written by the same beverly hills-based attorney, keith davidson2012, davidson tried to broker a deal between hulk hogan and davidson's client, who was trying to make money off a sex tape, showing hogan having sex with his friend's wife. davidson wrote the confidential settlement agreement, saying the sex video would be handed over if hogan paid his client $300,000. hogan's attorney called the fbi, and davidson was caught up in an fbi raid, accused of extortion. he was questioned, but never charged. four years later, davidson became stormy daniels' attorney and he used the same document as a template for the stormy daniels deal, a source tells cnn. the wording in most of it is identical. that means the president's attorney, michael cohen, did not write the hush agreement as previously believed. >> if keith davidson drafted this document for stormy daniels, that's an outrage. because this is such a one-sided agreement. >> reporter: judd burnstein, a new york lawyer who briefly represented donald trump said davidson crafting the agreement is an unusu

if we discover michael cohen recorded either my client or her attorney keith davidson, we'll be bringingnother claim against michael cohen for wiretapping. >> i know you were in court yesterday for a hearing related to the raid on michael cohen's office. what stood out to you from that hearing? because clearly there were a lot of reports about how irritated the judge was with michael cohen's attorneys and their lack of answers. >> two things stood out, anderson. first of all, the judge posed a number of simple questions to michael cohen's attorney relating to -- or attorneys, relating to his law practice. they were not able to provide the most simple answers in response to those questions. the judge became fairly frustrated and ultimately ordered michael cohen to court on monday at 2:00. i find it ironic that at the same time they were not able to answer those questions, the judge actually asked if they had contact with their client and they hedged. it was unclear whether they were able to actually reach him to have him participate or not. meanwhile, we're all in court doing what we need

keith davidson went on tv and he said, and this was him defending himself, he said, oh i called michaelnd i told him the deal was done, as a professional courtesy. i've never heard of such a thing. you strike a confidential deal for your client and then you call someone who is not involved in the deal as a professional courtesy. >> was "the national enquirer" acting as the arm of donald trump and michael cohen? and if so, was there something wrong with that? >> we strongly suspect they were. >> can you prove it? >> if the lawsuit had continued, we would have been able to prove it. but this is important for anyone criticizing the settlement, they need to understand what karen stood to gain or lose by the case. this was a situation where, if we win, at the end of the day, karen gets released from the contract, and she gets her life rights back. and she probably would have to pay the $150,000 back, which she was willing to do. the settlement gives her her life rights back, period, and she doesn't have to pay anything back. >> are you going to sue michael cohen? >> i think we're taking it d

something he did not just with keith davidson but also other people as well. one thing i should note is that keith davidson no longer represents either of these women. but we do know that that search warrant those fbi agents used when they went into michael cohen's house, hotel and office was they were looking for information relating to that payment to stormy daniels, something michael cohen has admitted he did make that payment to her but he says the president was unaware of it. and also what efforts they used to keep karen mcdougal, the other woman, silent about her alleged affair with the president. the way the white house ties into all of this is the white house is saying that michael cohen does represent the president and, of course, as my colleague gloria borger reported yesterday, michael cohen and the president spoke just yesterday because the president called him to check in. now we're waiting to see what's on these audio recordings. what investigators are going to learn from all of this and what michael cohen's role was with these two women. >> kait

the level of communication -- >> that's an allegation also that karen mcdougal had made against keith davidson. >> correct. and in fact, you need only look at the interview that mr. davidson gave to cnn a few weeks ago when he commented on the fact that he was communicating with mr. cohen, who was encouraging him to go out and do interviews and disclose attorney-client privileged information that he had on my client and others as well as communications with mr. cohen after the interview to make sure that it went okay. i mean, that's not an arm's length adversarial relationship. >> when you took on the stormy daniels case, did you have -- i guess there's no way you could have envisioned all the -- where you are right now in this case. >> i don't think -- if we scripted this out and tried to sell it in hol w50d, they'd laugh us out of the office. no one would even buy it because they would say it's so far-fetched. no one could have anticipated what's happened in this case. we've anticipated a number of things successfully. but the beauty of this case, anderson, is with each passing week or day t

keith davidson is cooperating with federal authorities who are investigating trump attorney michael cohenon has been asked by prosecutors in the southern district of new york to provide electronic information according to his spokesman he has done so and will continue to cooperate to the fullest extent possible under the law. when lawyers have lawyers it's bad. when lawyers have lawyers who have spokesmen, go ahead and set yourself on fire. we'll be right back. insurance that won't replace the full value of your new car? you're better off throwing your money right into the harbor. i'm gonna regret that. with new car replacement, if your brand new car gets totaled, liberty mutual will pay the entire value plus depreciation. liberty stands with you. liberty mutual insurance. experience a blend of...and raw power,nship... engineered to take the crown. presenting the all-new lexus ls 500 and ls 500h. experience amazing, at your lexus dealer. or a c-anything-o. but i've got an idea sir. get domo. it'll connect us to everything that's going on in the company. get it for jean who's always cold.

now that's important because keith davidson was the lawyer who represented porn star stormy daniels andmer "playboy" playmate karen mcdougal who both claim anyway had affairs with donald trump. the white house repeatedly denied the affairs happened. here's this, both women were paid and signed agreements that effectively silenced them about their alleged affairs with trump within weeks of the 2016 presidential election. cohen, the president's personal attorney, is under scrutiny in part for his role in seeking to suppress the alleged affair and payoff to stormy daniels. cohen has also been accused in squashing mcdougal's alleged affair with trump, which she sold to the parent company of "the enquirer." the publication never published her story but denies cohen or president trump had anything to do with its being killed before the election. it could shed light on the inner working of deals that we now know that michael cohen and davidson both worked on. it could prove valuable to the government's criminal investigation of michael cohen. we also know, frederica, the warrant for the raids

keith davidson calls it a coincidence that just before the presidential election, he was involved inne, but two women who claimed to have had affairs with donald trump, effectively keeping their stories secret. >> do you believe what stormy daniels has said about the sexual encounter with mr. trump? >> you know, i believe my client. >> and karen mcdougal? >> yes. >> for the first time davidson is speaking exclusively to cnn, saying he is constrained by attorney/client privilege but still giving new details about how the deals came about. stormy daniels' confidentiality deal signed just days before the election started with a phone call from donald trump's personal attorney, michael cohen. >> and michael cohen calls you up and says what about stormy daniels? >> he says, i'm hearing rumblings out there that the press is poking around about stormy daniels. do you have any information on that? >> did you at the time? >> no. >> so what did you say back? >> i'll call you back. >> and what happened in between that time? >> well, that's where really the communications get between my client a

keith davidson was the lawyer who represented stormy daniels.ougal and daniels both claim they had app affair with donald trump. both were paid and signed agreements that silenced stories within weeks of the 2016 presidential election. now, mr. cohen, the president's personal attorney is under scrutiny in seeking to suppress the alleged affairs and payoff to stormy daniels. cohen has been accused of quashing mcdoug dpal's. the publication never published her story but denied cohen or trump had anything to do with the decision to kill the story. it could shed light on the inner workings of deals we know cohen and attorney davidson worked onment it could prove valuable. we also know the war rarant of raids. on another note there is another big story we have reported on. we discovered cohen was recorded in another confidentiality deal with davidson. sources say in the latest dieal to come to light it happened in early or fall or 2017. it was a case that involved an affair who says -- according to a source the deal was he would pay his mistress 1 pp

daniels' former attorney, keith davidson, represented her in that agreement. exclusive interview with cnn, davidson after he was fired with the case, michael cohen was encouraging him to spill his guts about the daniels case and the case involving playboy play mate karen mcdougal. >> what did he say to you? >> he called to offer his opinion as to whether or not ms. daniels and ms. mcdaniels had breached the attorney/client privilege and thereby waved it. it was his assertion that each of them had. he was encouraging me and informing me as of his opinion and suggested it would be appropriate for me to go out into the media and spill my guts. >> reporter: are you here at the behest of michael cohen? >> no, no. no. not in any way, shape or form. >> but he did tell you to go out and spill your guts? >> yes, right. >> reporter: why do you think that is? >> well, you'd have to ask him. >> reporter: cnn is learning after the daniels deal was done, cohen referred a client to davidson, it was chuck labellea. he had an issue with actor tom arnold, who tweeted several ti

but i will say one thing that it also important, one other name, is keith davidson. this is the lawyer who has previously represented stormy daniels and karen mac dougall. they have different representation. but the journal is reporting that keith davidson also is representing this former playboy model who claims to have had this affair with the republican fund-raiser. wolf? >> we'll continue to watch the story unfold. thank you very much. we'll have more news after this. liberty mutual saved us almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. liberty did what? yeah, they saved us a ton, which gave us a little wiggle room in our budget. i wish our insurance did that. then we could get a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey, welcome back. this guy, right? (laughs) yes. ellen. that's my robe. you could save $782 when liberty stands with you. liberty mutual insurance. if you'd have told me three years ago... that we'd be downloading in seconds, what used to take... minutes. that guests would compliment our wifi. that we could video conference... and do

. >> reporter: daniels former attorney keith davidson represented her in that agreement.n an exclusive interview with cnn davidson said after he was fired from the case michael cohen was encouraging him to spill his guts about the daniels case and the case involving play boy playmate karen mcdougal say they had affairs. >> michael cohen called me in the last week or two. >> reporter: what did he say to you? >> he called to offer his opinion as to whether or not miss daniels and miss mcdougal had breached the attorney/client privilege and there by waived it. and it was his assertion that each of them had. and he was encouraging me and informing me as to his opinion. and he suggested that it would be appropriate for me to go out into the media and spill my guts. >> reporter: are you here at the behest of michael cohen? >> no. no. no, not in any way, shape or form. >> reporter: but he did tell you to go out on spill your guts. >> yes. >> reporter: why do you think that is? >> well you'd have to ask him. >> reporter: now cnn is learning after the daniels deal was done, cohen

president's attorney michael cohen did not write the hush agreement as previously believed. >> if keith davidsonor stormy daniels, that's an outrage, because in is such a one-sided agreement. >> judd burr stene who represented donald trump said davidson concentrating the agreement is an unusual move for two reasons. the person demanding the silence usually drafts the deal to make sure it's air tight. they would want to be in control of writing the agreement. and the attorney for the person being silenced is already giving away a large amount of negotiating power by writing it, burr stene says. >> if you're the lawyer representing the person being asked to provide confidentiality, your goal is to make -- write an agreement that has as many holes as possible to protect your client. your goal is not to lock up your client. >> part of the deal says stormy daniels who again was davidson's client can be fined $1 million for each time she talks about the alleged affair with the president. >> davidson also wrote the hush agreement signed by a former playboy model he represented who accused a major gop d

it was from keith davidson. he was the lawyer for this woman. looks shady on so many levels. when you look at the fact it's not just donald trump now, it's somebody else in the gop, you do have to wonder how much was going on before the election, and how much was going on because of what was going on before the election. the pattern is concerning. again, if you look at the search warrant, it says wire fraud, bank fraud, campaign finance violations. that has to do with all of this stuff. and the fact that the same lawyer's involved in getting hush money for these women, and apparently, again, the argument karen mcdougal made was he was working against her interests and for the president's interests. it's very suspicious, and you can see exactly why prosecutors got the search warrant. it's an outrage as some in the white house are trying to say. >> we've got to wrap it because we have breaking news this morning. we know that michael cohen is ordered to be in court monday. thank you both. >> thank you. >>> the u.s. considers an air strike on syria a success. what about syria's a

>> as rachel noted earlier, keith davidson, the other attorney in this case is cooperating.o i don't know -- i don't know all the details, but, you know, the investigation may be moving in that direction. there's some kind of collusion, as rachel put it, between some of these lawyers. >> joyce, let's go to that. the president's lawyer needs his own lawyer, it's not usually a good sign, on top of that there's this lawyer keith davidson, the former attorney for two of the women paid to keep quiet about their alleged affairs with trump has been contacted by federal authorities and is now cooperating providing information to the southern district of new york. what does that mean to you? >> there's every indication this is a serious investigation. i would tend to discount anyone who says that they know that there's a federal indictment coming, simply because grand jury proceedings are secret and it's a crime to disclose those grand jury proceedings. so no one really knows but we strongly suspect that this investigation will move forward towards an indictment simply because the ba

. >> and then now you've got stormy daniels' former lawyer now, keith davidson, who is also weighingwith the federal probe on cohen and he's actually complied with a request to provide authorities certain limited electronic information and perhaps it's all related to that $130,000 hush payment. >> you bet. >> how troublesome is this, avery, potentially. >> well, i mean, i think there really isn't much of a choice here. i mean, the fact is, that when this evidence is going to be -- the fbi has it, the argument of privilege doesn't seem to be working particularly well with judge kimble wood, the federal judge in new york, and at the end of the day, there's going to be an enormous amount of evidence that i think -- i think although i think the argument by stormy daniels' lawyers, again, a little overcaffeinated and i think he's right. i think that at the bottom of this thing there's going to be an indictment, and the moment that happens, you can forget about what's going on with this contract and stormy daniels out in california. nothing's going to happen until the criminal case is out

you made a claim that the fbi recovered communications from keith davidson who was stormy daniels' former attorney who was the one involved in this agreement and michael cohen. and you were requesting access to those communications. the judge initially granted your request and then turned it down. >> not exactly. the judge indicated she was inclined to grant our request. the government said they'd not had an opportunity to review it. they wanted a chance to meet with us and talk about it so they could decide whether to depose it or not. i'm confident we're going to be able to work it out with the government. and if we're not able to work it out with the government, i think the judge is going to grant us a seat at the table standing to make sure these documents are protected. i will say this, anderson, we are very concerned about the lack of an arms length relationship between mr. davidson and mr. cohen as it relates to my client and the communications that took place not just around the negotiation time period of the agreement but as equally important or more importantly recently. it's ou

stormy daniels and karen mcdougal's former lawyer, keith davidson, cooperating with the federal probemichael cohen's activities which would leave cohen's -- president trump's attorney facing a very tough decision. either he cooperates with federal authorities over the work he did for the president including pay stormy daniels money to keep her alleged affair with the president quiet, or he ends up facing time in prison if he's convicted here. first let's get to the significance of keith david -- davidson, participating and cooperating with the investigation. >> i mean, this is going to tell maybe some of the inner workings of what went on in discussions about how to keep information quiet, who was involved, who knew about it, whether or not the president had been involved. i'm sure there have been discussions back and forth between davidson and cohen. and it's just a matter of time before those come out. one thing about cohen that i will tell you, when people get on there and talk about i'm never going to flip, i'm never going to talk, i'm never -- >> take a bullet for the president.

then just last month arnold tweeted michael cohen had chuck labella hire keith davidson to try to keepe quiet about tr h trump, miss union and 2016. >> what's not clear is just what arnold knows, what information he has about all of this, if he has any at all, and how he got it. >> thanks very much. there's more breaking news. russia with a harsh response on sanctions on high-ranking officials and billionaires in vladimir putin's inner circle. i'll talk to a man who says he's been the target of death threats. here you go little guy. a cockroach can survive submerged underwater for 30 minutes. wow. yeah. not getting in today. terminix. defenders of home. your insurance on time. tap one little bumper, and up go your rates. what good is having insurance if you get punished for using it? news flash: nobody's perfect. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance. internet providers promise busine

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and we should tell you that sarah sidner spoke with a spokesperson for keith davidson and he said he never absolutely never conditisented to any recordings. and willing to pursue his legal rights. depending on which state you were in, recordings could be illegal. >> just lastly, what are you learning about the president's call to michael cohen today. that doesn't seem like a good idea. >> it does not seem like a good idea. the president saying anything to michael cohen isn't a good idea. even when he said ask michael cohen. that turned out to not be a good idea. i was told the president called him. i have to assume it was a pleasant call of commiserate. they have a long standing relationship. michael cohen has worked for him since 2006. the ultimate loyalist to the president. the president knows him. so i would presume that there was some sort of level of how are you doing. >> we should point out publicly, he is the ultimate loyalist and we have no idea what is going to happen if michael cohen is charged with crime and if they try to get him to flip and we will see how deep that loya

talking to our sources, michael cohen is involved in another confidentiality deal with attorney keith davidsondson is the attorney who represents stormy daniels in a deal that cohen agreed to pay 130,000 hush money. she also represented karen mcdougal. cohen and davidson have worked on another deal in the summer or early fall of 2017 involving the deputy's finance chairman committee, that agreement was made with a former playboy model. according to a source who has seen that agreement. he would pay $1.6 million over a series of payments to be made over a quarterly payment for unspecified personal injury claims. now, we have since gotten a constipate from mr. brody when this story broke. he admitted that he did have a mistress. he said at the end of her relationship, sh woman shared with me that she was pregnant. i offered to help her financially during this difficult period. we have not spoken at that time. not long after that statement was sent to us and broidy stepped down from his position. >> sara sidner, tell us more on the special report on michael cohen and the raid and the center of th

president's long-time friend and personal lawyer had recordings, phone conversations between cohen and keith davidson attorney representing both stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, the former porn star, the former play mate. what is the fbi hoping to learn from the recordings? >> well, you know what? i thought we learned back in the days of nixon, right, that it was not a proper thing to record anything. but let's talk about many things that the fbi could learn. think about if you were a fly on the wall. i'll give you three i think are essential. the first is the nature of the relationship. a lot of talk as to whether he was acting at his attorney. was he an attorney? was he acting on a familial capacity, a business relationship? are there any clues? often i'll call as a lawyer and distinguish in my conversation whether i'm calling because i'm retained and represented or doing a favor. number two, let's examine the issue of intent. a lot of talk about campaign finance violations potentially. was he talking about listen, we're in the middle of the campaign? i got to get this done. what were you sell it

keith davidson was at the center of agreements that kept both women quiet over their alleged affairsith donald trump before he became president. davidson has turned over what his spokesman calls certain limited electronic information. a source familiar with the matter tells cnn that earlier this month the fbi seized recordings cohen made of his conversations with davidson. and in los angeles friday, cohen's attorneys asked the judge to delay daniels' civil suit against cohen and the president saying that cohen could soon be indicted in that federal criminal case in new york. but cohen's attorney was actually saying in court what stormy daniels' attorney has said on tv. anderson cooper spoke with michael of a nmike avenatti. >> what do you think of him using your own time table against you to try to slow down your civil lawsuit? >> well, i thought that it was cute, but beyond that, it wasn't very effective. i mean the judge isn't going to make a decision based on the time table that i provide publicly, he will make a decision based on competitived a missable evidence and he found to q

areva the former attorney general -- the former attorney for stormy daniels and cairn mcdougal keith davidson been contacted. "the post" says davidson is cooperating with authorities. what's this tell you about the scope of the investigation? >> it tells us this investigation has a lot to do with those two hush agreements, which is what we've been talking about for several weeks now if not more than a month. the feds want to know what happened with respect to this $130,000 agreement. and davidson negotiated the agreement with michael cohen. so he has information about the negotiation process. he has information about what led to this agreement, and he could be potentially a very good witness for the prosecutors, and this could mean more trouble for michael cohen. >> he's also going to testify, at least if you believe the reports and knowing keith he never consented to the taping. >> okay, i have to go. but quickly if michael cohen is watching now what would you say he should do? >> i'd say michael cohen, tell your lawyers to dismiss this case. get the heck out of dodge in the central district

it's identical basically to others done by keith davidson, who by the way represented multiple womenad agreements with donald trump. but also elliot brodey. who paid 1. million to get the abortion and hulk hogan. these are all identical. so what's that sna. >> is that he has a form and if he can get others to use his form, he's going to do that. it's not surprising in and of itself for lawyer to have a form agreement they like, but as the lawyer said in the clip, the ability to get people to sign on to this agreement when they are paying you for confidentiality is very unusual. >> and what do you make of this, that davidson and cohen did so many deals together? it's not just daniels? >> part of it is if davidson has a niche in this area. >> and people are referring to trump who knew he's going to kind of give them a good deal. are telling every woman who has some sort of a sexual relationship with trump to go to davidson. >> that's b probabpossible, too may be in if documents or tape recorded conversation that is the southern district collected in the search warrant. we may find the