boom! tonight a former federal judge is in charge of documenting reviewing of documents seized by cohen s. let s bring in our crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz, tell us what happened today. she s a former prosecutor and a name suggested by the judge and essentially all the parties have agreed that she will now take hold of the evidence and review all the evidence that the fbi seized. this is something that initially prosecutors have objected to but in the end today in a surprise
that. we re going to cross every t and dot every i. it s a serious matter. but i think we are getting close. i think we re getting closer. and you re cooperating with law enforcement on this. yeah, i m not at liberty to answer that. it s the same answer i provided last week, unfortunately. let me ask you about another issue, another client of cohen s, sean hannity. the guardian newspaper has reported of him using a shell company to buy millions of dollars of properties. does this help shed light on their relationship? because as you know, sean hannity himself says he used michael cohen for real estate purposes. well, it may or it may not. what i mean by that is we don t know if there s any nefarious conduct that occurred in connection with the real estate investments or not. but what we do know is if you compare what was said in court relating to that relationship
talking about whether or not the president was a target of an investigation. subject versus target right. he s come in and said, i m not a target, i m cleared. you would think that if he believed that he wasn t a target and had nothing to hide, he would be thrilled that we were looking into finding out what happened and how russia was allowed to meddle into the investigation because he would think he wasn t in jeopardy. he seems to be fascinated with the idea that somehow these going to get he s going to get pulled in and maybe is in jeopardy. let s talk about the other case that sources tell cnn that the president is consumed by. stormy daniels and karen mcdougal s former lawyer, keith davidson, cooperating with the federal probe into michael cohen s activities which would leave cohen s president trump s attorney facing a very tough decision. either he cooperates with federal authorities over the work he did for the president including pay stormy daniels money to keep her
of the united states to testify under oath in a deposition. michael avenatti asked for two hours to question president trump, two hours to question president trump s associate, michael cohen, and ten targeted requests for production of documents. michael avenatti said this after filing the new documents. the motion is not crazy. we re relying on u.s. supreme court precedent and a long line of casing, it was well founded, thought out, it s documented what do you want? we want the truth. we want to know the truth about what the president knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it. as it relates to the agreement we re going to test the truthfulness of mr. cohen s, his attorney s, statements. and we re confident when we get to the bottom of this we re going to prove to the american people they have been told a bucket of lies. a representative for trump
the motion is not crazy. we re relying on u.s. supreme court precedent and a long line of casing, it was well founded, thought out, it s documented what do you want? we want the truth. we want to know the truth about what the president knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it. as it relates to the agreement we re going to test the truthfulness of mr. cohen s, his attorney s, statements. and we re confident when we get to the bottom of this we re going to prove to the american people they have been told a bucket of lies. a representative for trump associate, michael cohen has released a statement calling michael avenatti s motion a reckless use of the legal system in order to conflate michael avenatti s deflated ego and keep himself relevant. there was not a single legal point in michael cohen s associate s comments. michael avenatti cites the ruling of a deposition of a sitting president, the supreme