deterrent, what do they do going forward? there are a lot of questions facing the administration right now? let me get thoughts on the other storying developing, a cnn exclusive. a source tells cnn last week s fbi raids on the home, the office, the hotel room of michael cohen, the president s long-time friend and personal lawyer had recordings, phone conversations between cohen and keith davidson, the former attorney representing both stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, the former porn star, the former play mate. what is the fbi hoping to learn from the recordings? well, you know what? i thought we learned back in the days of nixon, right, that it was not a proper thing to record anything. but let s talk about many things that the fbi could learn. think about if you were a fly on the wall. i ll give you three i think are essential. the first is the nature of the relationship. a lot of talk as to whether he was acting at his attorney. was he an attorney? was he acting on a familial
now top donor to the republican national committee who raised money with donald trump trump jr. now gets a play mate pregnant and michael cohen is the guy who negotiateded the hush payment it seems. and it seems that the wrong doing or the alleged wrong doing is all about money. and the special prosecutor is following the trail of money. something that this president did not ever want to disclose. the trail of money is really where it all lies. and again, it s about that circle, that close knit circle to protect donald trump, the civilian and now, the president. and this president has withheld, but he does a lot of talking about if he had not done a lot of talking about this, maybe a lot of this would not be right now. he has not listened to the advice of attorneys and now, you re here at a point where they re following the trail of money and more is being
enquirer that this was an individual who was a go between for business transaks and not just the traditional work of an attorney. here is something very intriguing. the lawyer represented the newest play mate. multiple sources said this was a routi routine relationship that hay had. he was involved in many cases that became stories that the national enquirer caught and killed, to use the term that s become common in describing this activity. a former editor said david
maybe that s afoot. i think that would be a mistake and a problem if you change the rules in middle of the game. thanks for your explanation. just ahead, the play mate, porn star and lawyer. we re getting information on whoo the agents are looking for in this criminal investigation. we ll have more on the exclusive interview with the attorney michael cohen. is he sendi ining any kind of message to president trump tonight? been but some of you know paint can bring a wall to life. because you are particular. particular helps you find the perfect color and nail the details. look, particular people make the best art and science and. things. so be proudly particular with paint like no other. benjamin moore. the standard for paint professionals. only at local paint and hardware stores.
locations, the office and home and hotel room, they are also looking into payments that michael cohen or that were made to women and that that includes stormy daniels, but also this playboy play mate you mentioned earlier, karen mcdougal who sued the president and rather michael cohen and allegedly paid $150,000 for her story by the publisher of the national inquirer and her story never made it out and so the question of whether or not there was some effort to try to keep this story out of the headlines before the 2016 election just as the stormy daniels payment of $130,000 and quickly. and pointing out, that $150,000 payment to karen mcdougal the former play mate was in august of 2016, a couple of months before the election. the payment to stormy daniels was 11 days before the election near the end of october. and the connection what are you hearing about the connection between the president and the owner of american media, the