they got these search warrants to go in and do the execute the search warrants on michael cohen s premises. they already had so much evidence about various crimes he had committed, including the campaign contribution scheme. the illegal campaign contribution scheme. we know that, because that s 18 pages worth out of the affidavit. there s a lot of attachments and whatever, it s really 18 solid pages, just about that scheme. that tells me that at that point they probably could have written a complaint at that point. but they were looking for more evidence. probably against michael cohen. also for potential co-conspirators. that s what s so intriguing to me about this. but 18 redacted pages, what is it we don t know that michael cohen was involved in regarding a campaign scheme? well, exactly, that s what i m saying, if it s 18 pages,
shannon: we are getting new information about just how long the fbi was digging shannon: we are getting new information how long the fbi was digging around in the president s inner circle. katherine herridge has details on michael:. reporter: these heavily redacted court record so the investigation began nearly a year before the fbi raided his dwellings in april 2018. the special counsel requested and obtained multiple warrants for his emails that covered correspondence during the presidential campaign. the filing runs into hundreds of pages. 19 a completely blank out redacted with the heading, quote, the legal campaign contribution scheme underlying how the president s greatest legal exposure may be in the southern district of new york and unrelated to russian collusion. :put guilty to lying to congress
what stands out to you? what stands out to me is the length of the search warrant, the amount of detail in the search warrant and the amount of evidence in the search warrant. so i have reviewed, written, reviewed hundreds of search warrants during my time as a prosecutor. they are sometimes very detailed. they sometimes rbt. i will tell you this is one of the most thorough detailed ones i have ever seen and that s saying a lot. it tells us really by the time they got these search warrants to go in and do the execute the search warrants on michael cohen s premises. they already had so much evidence about various crimes he had committed, including the campaign contribution scheme. the illegal campaign
come in and say we re not ready even though they re ranks have been depleted in recent weeks it doesn t make a lot of sense. it makes me wonder if there s something in there they don t want to disclose and they re buying a little bit of time, which might imply there s more charges coming or something down the pipe but it s hard to tell. i want to get to the michael cohen documents. today we saw almost 20 pages of redacted information in the section titled the illegal campaign contribution scheme. how likely that this is all about trump? i mean, it s all about an ongoing investigation. and we know from previous court filings u.s. person number one is the president, is donald trump. individual one. yeah, individual one. that s what it is. and that is the president. and, you know, if there were 20 pages of redacted 20 redacted pages in court filings that i knew touched on an investigation that related to me i d probably
today we re learning new details about the scope of robert mueller s investigation into michael cohen. hundreds of documents were unsealed today, giving us a rare look at the investigation s earliest phase. a judge ruled to keep details of on going investigations sealed. mostly because they were related to the on going investigation of the trump organization arguably the most intriguing, the bulk of a section titled the illegal campaign contribution scheme. out of the pages we can see, it reveals that robert mueller obtained a warrant to sur veil michael cohen in july of 2017. this date is important, because it s nine months before the fbi raided his home, his office and his hotel sweet.