miller, thank you for being here. tonight michael cohen, you remember him, from such fbi raids as yesterday at three places that he tends to occupy, is responding to yesterday s fbi raids on his home office room telling emily jane fox the feds were respectful. he said he has not spoken to trump since the raids. we re getting a clearer pictures of what agents were looking for, records of payments top women including daniels and mcdougal. they searched for records relating to mr. cohen s taxicab business. as we learn more about the leads they re following, remember robert mueller is not involved in this investigation not directly. he handed it off. mueller filed a memo in court last week that states that a special counsel may conclude investigating otherwise unrelated allegations against a central witness in the matter is necessary to obtain cooperation. with me now barb mcquaid and adam davidson staff writer for new yorker. i want to follow up on something
pivoted from mueller to deputy attorney general rosenstein. nobody asked. the president just brought him up. that was no coincidence. according to the new york times reporting the president s tirade last night copied in private at the white house as he fumed whether he should fire rosenstein before the times broke the news today it was rosenstein himself who was the one who personally signed off on the decision to raid cohen s office. mike the schmidt is one of the reporter who s broke that story as well as tonight s breaking news the president sought to fire mueller a second time in december. michael, i m trying to get a clearer sense of what exactly happened in december as your reporting indicates? into there were several reports at the time that a there was a mueller subpoena that had been sent to deutsche bank for records directly related to trump. now, if you remember, trump talked last summer about a so-called red line, an area that he said mueller should not be looking at.