know how this ends. breaking news courtesy of a brand new statement that just crossed from donald trump. his home in mar-a-lago is, quote, under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. stunning news overnight, the fbi raid on the home of the former president. search and seizure, the fbi descends on trump s mar-a-lago home. we have a breaking fox news alert. the fbi has raided former president trump s home in mar-a-lago. federal law enforcement authorities would have had to go to a judge and bring to that judge a request for a search warrant. we begin this hour with one word unprecedented. today we are in uncharted territory. the fbi search at mar-a-lago has no parallel in american history. that s all true, and that s all sinking in. the first ever search of the former president s home setting what is today something we didn t have until yesterday. a new legal precedent in america. that matters for the law. it s captivating many, many peopl
loyalty. he even wrote a book about it. michael cohen has previously served as the personal attorney of donald trump over a decade. he s bestselling author of the book disloyal, and i m. wire and revenge, how donald trump weaponize the department of justice against his critics. both of which are remarkably important right now. he s also the host of the mea culpa and political beatdown podcast. michael, good to see you, thank you for being with us. good to see you. you touched on the loyalty idea. prosecutors understand it from organized crime. you understand it because you worked with donald trump. i lived it. talking about this. jen ellis posting why these people not pay for the defense. rudy giuliani has been escaping and scratching to donald trump to get him to pay for the defense. why is donald trump not paying for their defense? what is the consequence of that? well the consequence, you can see what s going on right now. i had asked during the defense agreement for donal
were going to pardon for money. who knows what s really in that safe? who nose what s in the information that the fbi now has their hand on? and again i said this i say gleefully, because everything that he did to people like myself, it s now a karma boomerang. he s now experiencing the full effect of the federal government and the weaponization as he likes to call it against him. he is the ultimate weaponizer. that s the final question. it s not legal. it s human. i ve got 40 seconds. yesterday he went through a version and part what have you went through. what do you think of him going through what you and your family went through to some degree? look, at the end of the day it will ultimately show that donald trump committed a plethora of crimes to which he is responsible for, and the american people want him held accountable. mr. cohen, you ve had quite a journey. i didn t know we would ever sit at this table and discuss the raid of his home.
but the promise between our state and our sovereign tribes would be broken forever. these out-of-state corporations don t care about california. but we do. stand with us. in 2018 asserting what he said was his negative opinion of a lawful search of his then lawyer michael cohen. we are joined now by michael cohen. he s the host of the mea culpa podcast, and he has walked us through some of these issues here. welcome back. good to see you, ari. you hear that type of criticism. that was on you. now the search hit home in a big way for trump. what is he doing here? did he misplay this. he definitively misplayed it. it s definitely karma boomerang. he didn t believe anything he was saying about me. it s always about him, and that s what he now has to contend with. it s funny you ask me, what was