the big question is the payment that michael coen made in 2016just before the presidential election toeement. the question is who authorised it, michael curran said he did it on his own. if he took money to help donald trump's presidential campaign that could be an alang shall —— election law violation. there is the question of whether there is a tax fraud involved. it is case of following the money and his ties into donald trump, whether he knew about it. he says he didn't but this could pull them into it as well. it is and crimes —— financial crimes as well. presumably this is dominating the media cycle when the president and his supporters would rather be talking about policy. that's remarkable, stormy daniels and her lawyer obviously know how to play the media, they are keeping her name out there, doing a 60 minutes prime—time interview. they have a way of keeping it going. she is on twitter, she is local. she can go toe to toe with donald trump as far as controlling the narrative. they'd rather talk about something else. michael curran has been investigated for that payment and hi

>> what just happened is that as you mentioned before, this morning we knew that michael coen in the last two years has represented president trump. of course he is his personal attorney. we also knew from a court filing that he represented elliot bradentony. the third person was unidentified and coan's team didn't want to identify him in court. one of the attorneys said we are protecting that name because that person doesn't want to be associated with this case. the judge wasn't buying his arguments in terms of why the name should not be protect asked not be said in open court. she said i'm going to rule right now it must be disclosed. the name is sean hannity. he is a fox news anchor. it has been revealed in open court that in 2017 and or 2018 those years, sean hannity -- in a legal setting sean hannity has used the services of president trump personal attorney michael cohen. that's the information we have right now. the hearing is still going on in the court behind me with the judge. the sides are going back and forthright now as to whether or not a special master should be put in

remember, michael coen has been the most aggressive defender of trump. he has swag and attitude this is a humbling experience. before my republican friends blame mull ther is delegated to the u.s. attorney another trump are republican appointee who -- had this h to review this along with a federal judge. whatever they have on cohen or bank froud they got a lot. >> this started as some time russian collusion investigation. sounds disturbing. russian collusion. my gosh. now we're looking lieu lawyers hotel room and daughters and his house and his office and electricing for porn star -- the democrats were complaining and the republicans were not complaining when an investigation in white water a land beal ends up in a blue dress. now the dem the kras are salivating over inpriority that might have been paid off by a lawyer. odd deal. >> republicans who may be salivating, also. as a former prosecutor and lawyer. the investigation goes with the facts tame them. we don't know we are all they have. >> and i will get to the pc road about the collusion. i want to

but dropping those settlements could be related to this raid that the federal government did on michael coeninquiry, and so these could have ended up in the karen mcdougal lawsuit or in the hands of buzzfeed, but that is now is much easier, and in both cases you had lawyers involved, saying, is not worth pursuing these cases, let's drop them and minimise our legal exposure because anything that comes up could because anything that comes up could be embarrassing. what impact does this have on the president?m be embarrassing. what impact does this have on the president? it is an ongoing embarrassment, distraction for the president, because he is talking about robert mueller and that investigation, that is one separate bit of exposure for the president, and the michael coen business is a different legal avenue. the investigation is personal business dealings and things he did to possibly cover up alleged affairs, this is a new headache and totally separate from robert mueller. anthony, thanks for joining us. anthony zurcer in washington there. don't forget you can get much more detail on our to

president trump's personal attorney michael coen found himself at the center of an fbi raid that sent the president fuming. a series of fbi raids took the president's personal attorney by surprise. fbi agents in new york city armed with a warrant raided his office, home, and a room at this hotel where he was staying. surrounded by his top military advisers who sat stone faced, president trump lashed out. >> they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys. good man. it's a disgraceful situation, a witch hunt. >> he called the raid completely inappropriate and unnecessary adding there was unnecessary seizure of attorney-client communications. he said the raid was the result of a referral by special counsel mueller's office. special sources tell abc news the raids were not about russia but fbi agents took a host of documents including some possibly tied to cohen's $130,000 payment to adult film star stormy daniels in the days up to the election. the raid came four days after the president said he knew nothing about the payment. daniels a little she had an affair with president

michael coen, my understandment is he had no knowledge during a time period. >> you tli it's somebodythat maybe impregnated this? >> i'm not suggesting anybody right now. we'll get to the bottom of that it is the publisher and fren of with the bump why are you tweeting out the fbi are going -- is this this the first effort to undermind so they can claim i want you to reck cog this was only one fwrom avenue avenue we is pretty transparent. you don't know he sug zwres jesting that. don't know. t a pretty. >> all right. thank you p. >> seernsly concerned about losing the house and senate. is president trump listening? we'll stay with you are panel next. -- with our panel up next. mait's a series ofar is nosmart choices. like using glucerna to replace one meal or snack a day. glucerna products have up to 15 grams of protein to help manage hunger and carbsteady, unique blends of slow release carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes. every meal every craving. it's the choices you make when managing blood sugar that are the real victories. glucerna. everyday progress. over 5 million america

you opened up the show and asked is michael coen in legal jeopardy. we all would is mueller was after aus. mother teresa would be. the federal criminal code we are all federal criminals i promise someone paid a penny less than tacks at some point in their life this . is a scam. case is a total witch hunt. think about the do you believe standard they raided trump's attorney. hes personal attorney's office to get evidence. yet when clinton was interviewed her star who went to law school but not her attorney sat in as her attorney so they could wink and nod at her and they were allowed keep evident from the fbi. computers after they looked at them f. that is not a double standard. it is dead now. and sad what is happening. >> we were trying to look where lawyers for the mob had their offices raid. it is all said, unreal. to solicit feds go in and seize documents with a clean team. separate the privileged material out. talk about chilling a relationship between a client and his or her lawyer, if this is what the feds need to do to get the goods on someone

michael coen. (ácommercialá)(áábreakáá) (robin) no major hot spots.an mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 ( james ) national news... president donald trump is fuming about what he says is abuse of attorney-client privilege after federal agents raided his personal attorney's office in new york.<"it's an attack on our country in a true sense - it's an attack on what we all stand for.">( james ) agents seized privileged communications between michael cohen and his clients... including mister trump. cohen has admitted to paying 130-thousand dollars to stormy daniels. the porn star says she and president trump had an affair in 2006 and the money was to keep her from going to the press. the white house denies the affair and trump told reporters he was unaware of the payment. the raid stemmed partly from a referral by special counsel robert mueller... who is leading the russia investigation. ( darya )president trump

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as far as the president's reaction, u know, i think michael cohen is not the roy cohen he was looking for. roy coen'sects of character and morality were, and i think ey were manifest, was compensated for with a towerin intellect and guile. and michael cohen, he's got going the grt loyalty and i think that right now is a weak link in the president's situation. >> yang: one person who had a turning point this week was paul ryan, saying he was going to leave the hou aset this term and retire. what does this say and bode for the midterms and for the future of the republican party, the future direction of the republican party? >> in the near te'rrm, if you trying to raise money for republican candidates, when your speaker steps down, that's not a great way to raise money, it's not something you brag about and say it's important you invest here. the bigger story, a lot of us goto know paul ryan as an intern for power america with jack kemp, and bill bennette and gene kirkpatrick and others in the '80s, reaganism at its high water mark, and he more or less carried the 1980s ad 1990s, he more or less carried

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michael cohen, always been important. do you think the mueller investigators see this, too? >> absolutely. there were few people who know as much as mike alley coenwe know publicly which i always presume it's less than actually known. it shows how he was the president's fixer and he was the guy who went and took care of things and so the fact that he had all of his information, all of his contacts potentially recordings of his conversations is you can see how its become an exist earn threat for the president and you can see it just in the way he's reacting about it. >> i want to play something, the allegation about him being in prague, when we look back at his initial denial he put up a tweet with his passport at the time when the news came out. i've never been to prague. fake news and president trump as president-elect at the time actually talked about it, too. take a listen. >> i want to see your passport. he brings his passport to my office. i say, hey, wait a minute. he didn't leave the country. he wasn't out of the country. they had michael cohen of the trump organization was in prague. it turned out to be a different michael cohen. >> in hi

michael cohen he needs to file a fifth amendment cla declaration. >> it's due by next week, wednesday. the judge said i will not rule on your motion to stay mr. coenil i have that declaration. once you invoke fifth amendment all bets are off. i can ask you questions during your deposition, and each time, if you can invoek your fifth amendment right against self incrime nays that could be used against new a trial. meaning i could get up in front of a judge and a jury and say if you invoked your fifth amendment right you are hiding something. >> do you think it's possible that michael cohen was under investigation before the raid? in that case is it legal? >> let's back this up. this investigation from the southern district of new york into michael cohen came from robert mueller's investigation. it was a referral. so there was something discovered during mueller's investigation that got it kicked over the sdny. i believe there was surveillance. i know there were actual e-mails that had been attained from mr. cohen that he didn't even know about. there could have been wiretaps. all of this would have been done legally by procuring the appropriate war

michael. >> and you are talking about the james comey questioning ethics and could you ask somebody watching right now might look at anyone from the rnc, given boydy and coenand say on what grounds can the rnc question anybody else's integrity. >> the republican party and the elected party is a party that passed a tax cut and helped the middle class and increased wages, two-thirds of americans had bigger jobs and isis is on the run. that is the republican party, what is the policy for the american people. when i go to grocery stores and talk to people about this party and this country, they're worried about what are republicans putting in place that will make my life better. and so far our record is pretty darn good. >> so that is the republican party that president trump and republicans on the house and senate, but i'm asking about the committee that you chair, the rnc that has a website up now called lying comey.com attacking a former director of the fbi, assailing his character and -- you know, you just had -- you just accepted the resignation of a deputy finance chair because a different deputy finance chair negotiated a deal with a woman -- a playboy