president trump. but with these recordings, it could give fbi agents and, you know, the southern district of new york that s investigating, it could give them some ammunition. do you know, did he record conversations with president trump or with, you know, then citizen donald trump? anderson, that s one of the answers we don t know. we have no reason to believe he did or didn t. we ve heard, in our reporting, conversations recorded with others. we do not have in our recording, we do not have first-hand knowledge of conversations being recorded with president trump. so, we re not asserting that. josh, appreciate it. fascinating reporting tonight. thank you. up next, our legal experts give their take on all of this. the possible recordings. what appears to be a white house preparing for action, or war against rod rosenstein. all of that ahead. you won t see these folks at the post office
americans really are not super focused on this right now, as long as they re creating jobs and keeping america safe, so, they re really watching what he does with syria. thanks to everyone. appreciate it. gloria called it a storm. feels like it tonight. next, did michael cohen make audio tapes of his business on behalf of president trump? his conversations on the phone. does the fbi now have them? we have new reporting on that. also, a cnn exclusive. how the white house is preparing to try to undermine the credibility after deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. t it s very, very tough on bacteria, yet it s very gentle on the denture itself. polident consists of 4 powerful ingredients that work together to deep clean your denture in hard to reach places. that work together directv now gives you more for your thing. your letting go thing. your sorry not sorry thing. your out with the old in with the new, onto bigger and better thing.
justified and defended the serb ch without going into his of these issues. if this had been hillary clinton s lawyer, can you imagine the aclu justifying this search? i don t know what the aclu did today, i m not familiar with that. i think this was an orderly, fair law enforcement investigation, multiply reviewed by levels of the justice department. let s see what they get. let s see if there s a case to be made. you re missing the point. maybe there is a case to be made, but it s too late to undo the fact that fbi agents have seen confidential material. that s what i m trying to stop. not me. thank you. coming up, new reporter about another alleged effort to buy and bury a story, a story critical of president trump. this time, the story involved a rumored affair the president had with a housekeeper in a trump building, an affair that allegedly produced a child. i m speak with ronan farro next. e a place with 24-hour valet service. and upholstery classes
rosenstein. reporter: well, certainly think there are a number of white house aides who remember what it was like the day the president decided to fire james comey, where they essentially had to come up with the reasoning after the fact about how they were going to explain that. i think they ve had a number of surrogates, allies of the president outside of the white house who we ve seen publicly making the case the president should fire rod rosenstein. they re not all doing that in coordination with the word, but people want to be prepared if the president decides to go that route. how are they going to justify it? how are they going to explain it? and i think these are the inklings of maybe that reasoning. the question is, will the president read those memos? because with comey, obviously, when the white house came out that night to explain why he had been fired, basically this next day, the president completely contradicted what they said, that it was about russian yashgs wasn t
in advance of the comey book, or what everyone thought in advance of it, the republican national committee launched a website aimed at what seems is besmirching him. on top of that, cnn has learned that the white house is gearing up for war against deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. sara murray has the exclusive. so, what have you learned about these talking points? reporter: well, anderson, sources familiar with this say there was at least a preliminary plan that the white house was developing to try to discredit rod rosenstein, and of course, this comings at a time when president trump has been weighing whether or not he wants to fire his deputy attorney general in the wake of these raids against michael cohen. now, they ve come up with a couple of different lines of attack against roden stein. the broad idea is that he s too conflicted to oversee the russia investigation. the notion that rosenstein was