President trump is set to meet with senior military leaders just a few minutes from now. He says all options are on the table after earlier today he condemned the suspected Chemical Attack this syria and said his administration would be making major decisions on how to respond in the next 24 to 48 hours. We will have much more on that, including the president s unprecedented criticism of putin. But first, the other news thats breaking right now thats tied to russia in a whole different way. The fbi raided the law office of Michael Cohen, president trumps long time personal lawyer today in manhattan. According to cohens lawyer, the fbi was acting on a referral by special Counsel Robert Mueller and Empowered By Search Warrants from u. S. Attorneys in the Southern District of new york. According to the new york times, the fbi seized emails, tax documents, and Business Records from cohens office. Thetimes says the seized reports include communication with president trump. The move today by
again he don t know where it is going. cohen has a real estate history in new york. sure. there is all sorts of ways that it could just focus on michael cohen and not focus on donald trump. he could be the collateral damage out of this eggs have. it s quite possible. just to follow up on what gabe said, again, i can t emphasize this enough. this is donald trump s personal attorney. the fbi really had to have it nailed down to get the warrant and be willing to take that kind of political risk. that is huge when it comes especially the southern district, which is someone that donald trump just appointed. there is a lot of questions why cohen didn t go to the white house. if he was so close to donald trump and done a good job in the trump organization blocking for him, why didn t trump bring him on in some capacity in the white house. there are a lot of theories. one of them would be that he would lose the attorney-client