mean, one, cohen was still a good man. when he got raided, he was still a good man. he got the wrong witch hunt. this was not a raid that ended up producing evidence for the mueller probe. this was mostly siphoned off to the sdny. and he called them biased people. i mean, that office, we now know, run by a political appointee, jeff burman. right. seeing that clip now on the day that we see the search warrant with the mountains, paragraphs, pages of evidence referenced, shows how horrible it is that he does this kind of attack, how baseless it is, right? because you see in these pages, as chuck was saying, as frank was saying, this is based first of all, i think they probably could have done a complaint at this point and actually arrested people. that s how much evidence there is in there. and i would go out on a limb and say as to the redacted portions, my guess is they already had the campaign finance crime at that point as well. just because of the length of it. so by the time th
raid in four of michael cohen s offices and residences? judge: no. i did not think this would happen and quite frankly we learned a lot more about it overnight that we didn t know when it was happening yesterday. ainsley: who made the decision to make this raid. jeff burman. you probably don t know him. jeff burman is the acting u.s. district attorney for the southern district of this manhattan. bob mueller s people stumbled upon evidence, evidence, not proof, evidence of bank fraud on the part of michael cohen. and they said, look, a, this is in new york and our team is in d.c. b, we really are not interested in bank fraud with the president s lawyer. you take a look at it it s your bailiwick. burman s people look at it and say there is evidence here. some of it may be attorney/client privilege because the evidence of the bank fraud, i will tell you what i think it is in a minute, i don t know because i haven t seen it. is intertwined with information secrets that the client donald
well be what happened late today, bill. bill: catherine, thank you for all of that live in washington come back if you get more, okay? the legal implications right now with our senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. good evening to you. bill. bill: have you been listening a lot. despite the reaction, piece together what you believe is happening. it appears mueller s team discovered some evidence of crime in the possession of michael cohen and might have been what they believe is a crime committed by the president and told to cohen or it might have been something independently committed by cohen. i happen to believe it s the latter and will explain in a minute. bob mueller then gave that information, because it s outside his purview, to the acting u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, jeff burman, an appointee of donald trump. his team looked at it went to a federal judge in lower manhattan and said we have evidence of criminal behavior here. very high s