payments. and so over the last several months cohen began to feel that he was completely walled off from the president. last month he told a close friend of his, bo deitl, who speak with me yesterday, that he felt essentially he doesn't understand why no one's communicating with me. why the president isn't talking to me. he began looking for a sign from the president, from the man he defended for so many years that he would also come to his defense. he started sending out these flares. he began to signal that he would perhaps not be loyal to the president but more loyal to the country and to his family. he also said he was considering cooperating perhaps with the special counsel's investigation. all of this generated nothing from the president. it was silence instead that he received. that's where we get to this moment he authorizes this audio