journisticly? one of the things i established is its very nonpartisan. harvey weinstein, i broke that story and along with a group of other brave reporters. that was a major democratic force to be reckoned with. he was a big donor and hillary clinton supporter and what we see in what s being exposed about this pattern of payments allegedly on behalf of the president is the same actors involved dillon howard, the national inquirer. these were all individuals working to suppress stories on behalf of harvey weinstein. we report that lanney davis a democratic operative and close clinton confidant and bois schiller were involved in ami s and the national inquirer s effort to shut down this story that we re reporting on today. so what this is about is systems, chris. this is about the most powerful people in the country having the ability to silence and change the news narrative at will.
now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. new details emerging about the investigation into president trump s personal attorney, michael cohen. several people familiar with the probe tell nbc news that federal investigators have requested all communications between cohen and david picker and dillon howard, top executives at american media incorporated. that is the company which owns the national enquirer and other
probably doesn t mean much to a lot of people. one of their publication is the national enquirer. there has been various reporting over the years that president trump or people.in his circle toer in the trump organization may have been behind payments to people to tell their exclusive stories to that publication skpk then this publication does not publish their actual stories or their accounts of specific incidents that have happened. and some of those incidents have been reportedly perhaps negative or detrimental to president trump s reputation. that s some of the reporting that s out there. what we have learned and what the new york times first reported is that the search warrant had a specific section where they requested any communications between molkal cohen who was of course the president s personal attorney and these two top executives david pecker and dillon howard. that s what is new at this time. this is just kind of helping us katy kind of route out a little bit the scope
breaking news about this week s raid of president trump s personal lawyer, michael cohen. his office and homes. multiple people familiar with the components of the federal investigation into cohen say investigators have requested co investigators requested all communications between two top tabity lloyd executive asks the attorney. joining me, tom winter and kelly o donnell the white house. also ben with ittis. thanks for coming back. first to you, tom. what are the new details about your reporting? kate katy, based on conversa we have had with those familiar with components this investigation, my colleagues and i learning that the search warrant involving michael cohen was looking for all communications that were tied to two top american media inchopper rated company executives, pecker and howard. american media incorporated
tabloid publications. the details of the search warrant were first reported by the new york times. both pecker and howard have reportedly been involved in payments to people who wanted to tell stories that would be viewed as damaging to the donald trump campaign or to donald trump in the years before he was elected president. we will have more on that story as we get it. moments ago we learned that president trump met with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein at the white house. the white house says the two talked about routine department business. is there much routine department business at the attorney general s office these days? this comes as the president responded to reports that he and his allies are trying to undermine the russia investigation which is overseen by rod rosenstein. a short time ago the president tweeted he has been cooperating with robert mueller and has full confidence in ty cobb the white house lawyer dealing with the probe. earlier he tweeted that he woul