>> this is "new day" with chris kco como and alisyn camerota. here's our starting line. we have new details about the fbi raids on president trump's personal lawyer michael cohen. investigators were looking for communications between cohen and donald trump related to the infamous acce"access hollywood" tape. and president trump's ousted former chief strategist steve bannon is reportedly pushing a plan to fire rod rosenstein. the man overseeing the russia investigation. . . "washington post" reports bannon wants the white house to stop cooperating with mueller's team. at the same time, a senate pan has a bipartisan bill to protect mueller. >> right now sewer syria's ruler assad is addressing the public,