under review here by the u.s. attorney s office by the justice department, by the fbi. and that may explain the reaction that you described at the opening of the show of the president being very upset by this news that his personal attorney s offices were raided today. tom hamburger, amazing. great reporting by the washington post and you, sir. thank you. thank you. let s bring in renato moradi and tom winter as well. let s go into this legal. start with kim right next to me. kim, this question of what can they use here? anything they find? well, the question that would arise with this if this ever turned into an actual indictment and prosecution, they would move to keep that information out. and the judge would make rulings on that. the issue here is really people need to understand the system worked really well here. we have the top levels of the justice department signing off on this. in the u.s. attorney s manual,
there are specific provisions that apply to searches of attorney records. we have the criminal division that has to have signed off. and we have a federal judge, a federal judge. did sessions do it? did his own attorney general approve this raid today? that s probably unclear because if you re trump you thinking that? there is two places where this applies. one is the special prosecutor regulation, which suggests it went to rosenstein. but there is also a manual for u.s. attorneys which suggests it goes to the attorney general. so we don t know the answer to that. certainly the president suggested that he is more comfortable with sessions in charge of this than mr. rosenstein. renato, i read the mandate of the special counsel. it does say any matters that arise or are discovered during the course of the investigation are fair game. if i were trump, i d be scared to death. that means anything found many that treasure trove today in michael cohen s office i presume in new yor