firms. so once hopefully in the next week he ll decide on his council. i think that s the next step we re looking at. josh, do you know if there s a financial problem here for cohen in terms of paying for these legal bills which have to mountg up very quickly? i ve heard from people close to the case there is concern about the financial cost. rming over the l task they ve few weeks involved maybe dozens of lawyers involved in going through all the millions and millions of pages of doc mailsages and voice gs that you mentioned as part of this search warr relateded process. that s a lot of legal hours being billed at a pretty significant law firm. must have run up a really large tab for mr. cohen. is that a tab that the trump organization or president trump himself is helping pay or is mr. cohen on the hook for that whole bill. josh gerstein and christina wilky, thank you both. i m joined byal analyst
he has right now. the people he had on his team were basically brought on to deal with the congressional investigations and document production and not really to hash out either a plea deal or to go to trial on some kind of a criminal charge which i think likal cohen had no idea he would possibly face when this process starred. so i think what we re seeing here is some movement in that direction which could lead to a plea deal and maybe flipping on the president and could be part of the normal process leading to some criminal charges. just to clarify, these attorneys are retained by n before he finds himself ed by the fbi? that. they were involved in sending those documents up to capitol hill that were being demanded by various committees investigating the russia trump affair. we should say that, what did you want to say, christine? one big unknown right now in the cohen investigation is what his long-time business partner the so-called taxi king of new