trump was happy to have that. after trump s electoral victory broidy was quick to tout his connections to the president-elect to propel his business. he was quite overt in advertising his connections to donald trump, and that got them into meetings that they wouldn t necessarily have had. broidy thrived in trump s washington. what s so significant here is the blurring of the lines between elliott broidy s fund-raising and elliott broidy s business. multiple sources tells cnn one of broidy s business associates george nadir has been pulled into the web of robber mueller s special counsel. because of his visibility into the potential flow of money from the middle east into efforts around trump, including political efforts. while nadir cooperates and keeps a low profile, cohen and those entangled with him are
president trump s administration. yet he has remained a fierce supporter. in march of 2017 cohen the sometimes democrat tweeted this photo saying he once again was a republican and quote, it took a great man to get me to make the switch. you can almost say this is donald trump s mini me. thank you all. i think michael cohen is amazed his life has gone the way it has and he s gotten as far as he s gotten. ahead. so what s the big deal about the raid of a lawyer s office? it s when the story takes a quantum leap into something unknowable and very different. shrimp fans - this one s for you.
proven that everything he did was legal. he s worried because he thinks they will look for something to charge him with. what about the president? if cohen ends up charged with a crime, could the fixer flip on mr. trump? the criminal justice system is full of people who begin with tremendous bravado. i ll never flip, i ll protect my friends. but the prospect of years in prison focuses the mind in a way that bravado doesn t. the president s tweeting seemed to reflect that concern. he bashed maggie haberman of the new york times who reported that mr. trump had verbally abused cohen for years, and the president s lawyers are concerned the behavior could lead to cohen flipping. the new york times and a third rate reporter named maggie haberman, who i don t speak to and have nothing to do with are
general says the raid was over the top. if you want to know where the money came from, you can get it via tax filings, banking records. the success of raiding a lawyer s office, home and hotel is not apparent. this creates all sorts of fourth, fifth, and sixth amendment problems. questions have been raised as to why the raid was peeled off from robert mueller s investigations. the searches were carried out as part of an ongoing grand jury investigation as part of the u.s. attorney s office in the southern district of new york and the fbi, separate from mueller. it s important for two reasons. one is mueller has been criticized for expanding his mandate. he s supposed to investigate russian interference and anything that comes from that, like obstructed his investigation. to anything that edges beyond and looks at the trump organization s business and that sort of thing, trump and his allies are going to say he s overreaching.
a circus outside the federal courthouse downtown. featuring the president s self-proclaimed fixer michael cohen and the woman he tried to silence. ms. daniels, do you have a message for the president? the porn star known as stormy daniels. why is porn star stormy daniels in that courtroom today? it s a great publicity opportunity. here she is. she s going through security. the hearing wasn t about daniels. stormy, we love you! but fallout from stunning fbi raids on cohen in early april. cohen claims some of the material taken was covered by attorney-client privilege and was asking to review it before the feds. it s a hearing that went from circus to shocking. no, i m looking at your face. mine s the same.