attorney michael avenotti has released information the russian oligarch made a payment of a half million dollars to trump's fixer michael cohen. he says the $5 million went into an account for actor film actor stormy daniels. this story could connect the trump business from moscow to the president's personal life, whether trump has been on the hook the powerful features in the russian government. the very essence of the mueller investigation. avenotti posted an executive summary of his research late today. his report lists a number of allegations abc news has not yet been able to verify. the oligarch in question, he deposited the money into an account used to repeat to pay off stormy daniels. he was sanctioned last mont by trump's treasury department. just four days ago, the "new york times" reported according to people close to the agency, federal agents spopd mr mr. vekselberg, searched his electronic devices ap questioned him. they confront him after he stepped off a private plane about two months ago. the russian billionaire has not been identified as a suspect in the investigation.

michael, attorneys for michael cohen firing back at michael avenotti, accusing him of releasing privatecords of a different man named michael cohen. so help us sort this out. does this take away from avenotti's credibility? >> i think it's always hard to come and try to litigate your case and put your evidence out in the media. it makes for good news stories. it gives us a lot to talk about the bottom line is if you do get into a situation, you have book and forth and people question the validity of the documents. we heard about the suspicious activity rarts dealing with the bank records. those are typically very secretive. they go to a financial crimes unit. the u.s. attorneys office usually has a representative looking over those do you means to find out have there, in fact, been suspicious activities with financial activities and banking accounts, it would be unusual and unheard of for someone outside of that investigative loop to have access to those sars reports. >> michael avenotti for his part fired back on 26th. he's saying mr. reince admission on behalf of mr. cohen is baseless

fighting with michael avenotti on cnn and other shows. he was speaking for michael cohen, chosen by michael cohen, as michael avenatti says. what happened to him? >> my sense is that everyone in cohen land is not getting on television right now. that that is part of their legal strategy -- >> does michael cohen know that guy he did send out on television was the worst failure he could have possibly sent on tv as a tv lawyer? >> i don't know that he knows that. >> does he think rudy giuliani is hurting him on tv? >> from my reporting from people familiar with it, he thought rudy giuliani getting on television and making things more complicated for him was incredibly frustrating and he could not understand why he got on not only once, but two, three, four times and made things more complicated for him. >> now me and michael cohen have an area of agreement. i knew it was about to happen. emily jane fox, thank you for joining us. really appreciate it. and michael avenatti, hang around because rudy giuliani can't stop talking about you. even wh

far he had many things to say in the case about the president repaying michael cohen for the hush money to miss daniels. avenotti joins us now. how in your penalties, we were talking about whether it was damaging for rudy guiliani to say that michael cohen did this because can you imagine if the attack would have been in the last date before the election. >> well, i think it's incredibly damaging. i think it's a shocking admission by rudy guiliani, namely he has had mitted the exact option of what has been said time and time again over the last four months. the american people, whether it be by michael cohen, david schwartz on this show many times, individuals associated with the white house, the president, himself, there is no question this was done in connection with the campaign. no question. >> does it make sense do you, we do not know who was clear from the white house from rudy guiliani is when mr. trump allegedly knew about this agreement in they're saying essentially he was paying a retainer on an ongoing basis for months to michael cohen but may not have known about the details until ten days ago. >> we

another team of prosecutors will do it live for them the other news, from stormy daniels attorney michael avenotti is live on set on "the beat." he revealed a reporter called him last week about a recording of a phone call between michael cohen and stormy daniels attorney, not denying these tapes exist but says they have not been leaking anything. >> just like the nixon tapes years ago, we now have what i will refer to the trump tapes. mr. ryan admitted that there are audio recordings that michael cohen was taking for years. not only do they exist, but they are under lock and key and some of them relate to my client and her attorney/client privilege commune cakes. >> avenotti saying he believes trump. was recorded. now, let's be clear the evidence coming out of today's proceeding does not speak exactly to that. avenotti calling on cohen to go ahead and release the recordings. >> people can make their own determinations as to their importance relating to the president and what he knew and when he knew it and what he did as it relates to conspireing with michael cohen to commit one or more potential

quite frankly, michael avenotti is right when he says if this isn't true, provist. ke to see donald trump's tax records personally. secondly, i think what the lawyer for michael cohen is doing is a perfectly good way of trying to put michael avenotti back on the defensive. which is to say, you don't have any privilege that attachs to how you got these documents. >> that we know of. so, therefore, you don't have anyway to keep this aa secret. i'm iseoul, that assumeing, tha they're saying. >> i know you had no time to prepare. we just got this. it seems like an escalation and goes to questions as at least the cohen side wants avenotti. it took a while. these are complex matters. i'm reporting here for your knowledge to the viewers. this response from cohen's lawyers, challenging parts of the report and how avenotti got the information that he got while acknowledging some of it is true. that's the expert news. thanks to our expert panel. a trump accuser says hess lice inspired her to run for office. she just became a democratic nominee. we'll explain. amd, i wanted to

attorney michael avenotti has released information the russian oligarch made a payment of a half million's fixer michael cohen. he says the $5 million went into an account for actor film actor stormy daniels. this story could connect the trump business from moscow to

you've got the president saying what he's saying, vis-a-vis or at least in opposition to what michael avenotti stormy daniels are saying about these statements, then you have giuliani contradicting the president, the president contradicting him. but then michael cohen, i don't know why he's talking either. talked to donny deutsch. donny deutsch went on "morning joe" to describe it. let's listen to that conversation. that was this morning. >> i spoke with michael cohen yesterday and he doesn't know what rudy giuliani is talking about. he said there are two people that know what happened, myself and the president. you'll be hearing my side of the story. he was obviously very frustrated what came out yesterday. >> okay, "my side of the story," that's what i want to get clear. is the president trying to keep michael cohen from telling my side of the story? who's on whose side right now? >> this is just a wild guess. i would guess that michael cohen probably knows things that donald trump doesn't want made public, right? doesn't want him to tell. now, i don't know what those things are. i don't kno