software. they were able to get a picture of him and match it into a database. the reason police had to do that as the suspect has not been cooperative. in addition, it s been described he was somehow able to obscure his fingerprints. normally if a person s not being cooperative and if a person doesn t have an i.d. on them, they re able to use fingerprints to try to identify them through some sort of a government database if somebody will a prior criminal history. we re told that somehow, he was able to obscure his fingerprints so they could not get a match that way and that s why they had to go to the very modern day facial recognition software to identify him. thank you so much, tom winter. now to the battle over president trump s supreme court pick to replace anthony kennedy. it s impossible to see another decision that will have greater or shape the kind of country we live in. the court has proven willingness to decide presidential elections, the number of guns in the country,
the anonymous source who leaked michael cohen s financial records to the press is coming forward. a law enforcement official tells the new yorker s ronan farrow he was the source and motivated to leak cohen s financial records after he saw two documents, documenting suspicious financial transactions, had just disappeared from a government database. cnn s mj lee to lay out what s going on with this. what we re talking about here are suspicious activity reports and these are reports that banks are supposed to file to the treasury department when they see suspicious activity. now, we know that one of the banks that did this is first republic bank. this say bank that, remember, michael cohen used to set up a bank account for his shell company, essential consultants. this is the bank account he used to pay stormy daniels and received a lot of money from various companies. a law enforcement official is
release these documents. sure. and it s inconceivable that someone would be allowed to do that, right. just because they feel like it s not getting to law enforcement. all of a sudden you re having an employee of law enforcement employee all of a sudden just release this. acre to the reporting this person said that it s not common. in fact unheard for the documents not to be in the government database. and the fact that two key documents which were the i believe the sars were not there. i guess they were concerned there was a cover-up. the counterargument to it is it s possible mueller s team according to ronan reporting experts he talk to it s possible that mueller s team basically took those out of the database for reasons of, you know. so that employees gets to make a decision that is a crime to release this publicly? just doesn t make any sense. doesn t make any sense what so far. i say lock him up whoever it is.
there is more news breaking ton. tonight we learn about how and why records got out showing that michael cohen s shell company, the limited liability company, essential what was it called essential consultants i guess the one he created to facilitate the payments to stormy daniels also received payments from several companies. in the new yorker ronan farrow reports that a law enforcement official is the one who leak the confidential documents. this official according to the reporting grew alarmed after being unable to find two important reports on cohen s financial activity in a government database. the official he says he was he or she was concerned about the information being withheld from law enforcement, released the remaining documents, again this is ronan farrow reporting in the new yorker. back now with the panel. just from a legal standpoint, i mean it s jim it s illegal to
there is more news breaking tonight. tonight we learn about how and why records got out showing that michael cohen s shell company, the limited liability company, essential what was it called essential consultants i guess the one he created to facilitate the payments to stormy daniels also received payments from several companies. in the new yorker ronan farrow reports that a law enforcement official is the one who leak the confidential documents. this official according to the reporting grew alarmed after being unable to find two important reports on cohen s financial activity in a government database. the official he says he was he or she was concerned about the information being withheld from law enforcement, released the remaining documents, again this is ronan farrow reporting in the new yorker. back now with the panel. just from a legal standpoint, i mean it s jim it s illegal to release these documents. sure. and it s inconceivable that someone would be allowed to do