Analyst for msnbc John Heilemann. Yes, hes here. John heilemann of the circus. President of the counsel on Foreign Relations and author of the book a world in disarray Richard Haass and David Ignatius and Heidi Przybyla is with us as well. We have the circus with us here. Are they going to take pictures of you drinking your coffee . No, of you drinking your coffee. Thats the reason theyre here. So the real Michael Cohen will be in court today in the wake of the fbi raid last week. It comes as the legal bills continue to mount for the president. Nearly 4 million since he was sworn in. On that, i heard that is it true that he spent like 20 of all the money theyve raised politically on legal bills . Did you hear that John Heilemann . Is that true . Thats a lot. Big chunk. What a waste. I wouldnt be surprised by it. A big chunk going to legal bills. I spent much of sunday on twitter railing against jim comeys media blitz and the president calls it, quote, Mission Accomplished in syria. Wel
What happened tonight took place in new york. Michael cohen shows up for hearing and also in attendance, stormy daniels. They have not been announced of the rush aboutface. So talk about the judges ruling today. Reporter the judge gave every party a little bit of what they wanted without making a final ruling of those documents that received in the fbi raid of Michael Cohens. The office is going to filter those documents and hand it over to cohens attorney. How much is protected by Attorney Client privilege and report back. Theyre allowed to sip through them and those that pertains to him. And also the u. S. Attorneys office can go through the documents as well to figure out how much it is protected by Attorney Client privilege and all the party is going to reconvene and thats when the judge is going to make the final ruling in this matter. Talk about how it came about of cohens lawyer were forced to name sean hannity was his client. That was dramatic in the courtroom. We know the judg
Were going to bring you results as they come in from West Virginia. But breaking news in the Mueller Investigation and the investigation into Michael Cohen. Cnn learned that Mueller Investigations have questioned a Russian Oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars deposited into essential consultants llc, the company set up by Michael Cohen that was used to pay off Stormy Daniels. Hundreds of thousands of dollars from the u. S. Affiliate were made after the election. The purpose of the payments by the u. S. Affiliate is unclear at this hour. Cnn has reviewed documents that appear to show the payments but cnn has not authenticated the documents. Their authenticity has already been bolstered by a Statement Issued by another company tonight, at t, which is trying to acquire cnn and its Parent Company time warn per. The information that Michael Avenatti revealed earl yer said that at t had paid several hundred thousands of dollars to Michael Cohens essential con l consultants llc. At
Conducting a raid this afternoon on an office and a hotel used by Michael Cohen, who is trumps personal lawyer. Also a longtime executive at the Trump Organization. A man that trump put that extra heat on in that unusual air force one statement thursday. Cohen is also the center of two of Donald Trumps largest legal problems, the russia probe and the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. Second, the raid collected eve on cohens role in getting money to Stormy Daniels, as well as other records, this according to the New York Times, including emails, tax documents, and business records. So right there, you have the president s lawyer and fixer, a confidant who predates trumps days in politics losing control of all kinds of obviously important material. The feds have it now. And then theres item number three. The reason that its always tricky to get a judge to approve a search on a Lawyers Office. Tonight the fbi seizing, quote, private communications between cohen and trump himself. Now, co
Of the rush aboutface. So talk about the judges ruling today. Reporter the judge gave every party a little bit of what they wanted without making a final ruling of those documents that received in the fbi raid of Michael Cohens. The office is going to filter those documents and hand it over to cohens attorney. How much is protected by Attorney Client privilege and report back. Theyre allowed to sip through them and those that pertains to him. And also the u. S. Attorneys office can go through the documents as well to figure out how much it is protected by Attorney Client privilege and all the party is going to reconvene and thats when the judge is going to make the final ruling in this matter. Talk about how it came about of cohens lawyer were forced to name sean hannity was his client. That was dramatic in the courtroom. We know the judge asked Michael Cohens attorney to give names of his client. We know trump and there was this unnamed person. It was not like Sean Hannitys name came