sucking up the most oxygen. is it a gender thing? we ve got that deep dive coming up later in the show with our team here, covering all of it on what s turning out to be a busy tuesday. so we start this hour with that news surrounding the investigation into michael cohen. those redacted search warrants, right, related to that fbi raid on his house, his officer, his safety deposit box, et cetera, just released. let me get right to nbc s tom winter who s been reading these documents. also with me, joyce vance, msnbc contributor. paul butler, nbc legal analyst, former federal prosecutor, professor at georgetown law. and ana palmer, senior washington correspondent for politico. sahil kapur joins us too, national political reporter for bloomberg news. tom, you have had a good hour, i think, 50 minutes, at least, to look through these documents. bring us the headlines. what are we learning? and maybe, as importantly, what are we not learning from these? we ll just go right to what we re
page to raise money for his family. and as you can see, so far, it has raised more than $150,000. he even has some pop stars giving him money. i also happen to know his family will be moving out of the shelter story. that is an american dream story. still, it still exists. that wraps us this hour. i m stephanie ruhle. i ll see you again at 1:00 p.m. with ali velshi. right now, more news with hallie jackson. stephanie, thank you. i m hallie jackson. we start with breaking news. documents just into our news room from the raid on michael cohen. what we re learning and how it fits into the larger russia investigation. that is not the only thing popping this morning. things are popping up. we re talking trump versus conway versus conway. why the president is pushing a personal matter on to his very public twitter page, going after the spouse of one of his most loyal advisers. and in 2020 news, five democrats, six states, a whole lot of headlines. the ambitious new policies two of those ca
insight into how the fbi came upon the campaign finance scheme, that was the scheme to make payments to stormy daniels and to karen mcdougal, who alleged affairs with the president and affairs at the white house that the president has strongly denied. if you re looking for more information into the intricacies of that investigation, you re going to be a little bit disappointed today, because there s over a dozen pages of redacted information just in the search warrant that pertain to michael cohen s physical addresses. i m talking about his home, talking about his hotel room, i m talking about his office. so that information is redacted and prosecutors had already told us, they had already told a judge that, hey, you know, we want to have the ability to redact certain parts of information, if we have to share these search warrants, because, your honor, we have ongoing investigations. and we know that this is an ongoing investigation by prosecutors here in new york. let s talk about the
ongoing investigation about campaign financing. at the same time, the southern district in its papers regarding michael cohen name donald trump as individual one. he directed that conspiracy. so there s been some speculation that while the department of justice policy is that a sitting president can t be prosecuted, that there might be a sealed indictment waiting for the day that trump leaves the oval office. so that might be the time this stuff gets unredacted and we find out whether the president of the united states is actually charged with a crime after he leaves office. and let me just remind folks here. because i do think, you know, every day feels like a hundred years when time is a flat circle in washington. but the raid on cohen s office and house is what kicked off really this entire cohen story line, right? the president talked about it back when it happened. and i want to remind you of what he said then. i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal
and that s when he first gets a search warrant for one of cohen s g-mail accounts. and as you see here, in august, he s able to get another e-mail account associated with his apple i.d. and icloud. and in november, he goes back and gets a search warrant for a second g-mail account. and in february, of course, this investigation gets turned over to prosecutors here in new york, and then in april, we have the search warrant, and by august, michael cohen is pleading guilty to eight counts in a new york courtroom. hallie, one of the things that fbi agents have to do when they apply for these search warrants is tell the judge, look, these are the possible crimes that we think this person has committed. they have to lay out the reason why they think those crimes have been committed, but i think this is interesting. one of the things that they talk about, the false bank entries, the false statements to financial institutions, the bank and wire fraud and money laundering, those are all things