>> we're learning from stephen ryan, the attorney for michael cohen, the fbi carried out raids against michael cohen trying to seize he said some of the documents are attorney-client privileged material and we don't know what was searched but we do know according to stephen ryan they were carried out with the u.s. attorney in manhattan who had gotten a referral from the special counsel robert mueller. an now we have two investigations that are now squarely affecting the president of the united states, obviously michael cohen is the personal information and long-term personal attorney for president trump. and i'll read you part of what steven ryan as part of the statement. he said the u.s. attorney's office for southern district of new york executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileges communications between my client michael cohen and his clients. i have been advised by federal prosecutors that the new york action is in part a referral from the office of special counsel robert mueller. what this means is that robert mueller found some information as part of his investi

stephen ryan, his lawyer released this statement to cnn, quote, today the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client michael cohen and his clients. one of his clients is the president of the united states. i've been advised by federal prosecutors at the new york action is in part a referral by the office of special counsel robert mueller. jeff zellin joins me and president trump is watching right now? >> indeed, jake. i'm told the president has been watching news coverage of this development this afternoon from the white house. i'm told by a white house official this was not coming as a surprise to the president. he had a head's up this had happened. of course he's dealing with a lot on his plate and potential strikes on syria and other matters, but the president is watching news coverage this afternoon on this. has been being briefed on this, jake. what we do not know is if the president has spoken directly to michael cohen. but you would certainly

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after haarguments for an attorn the judge ordered stephen ryan who is representing michael cohen and from washington, d.c. and he flew in to handle this matter and she ordered him to reveal the name. and as you could imagine, there was complete shock in the courtroom. several of us from the media had run out to report this flews. it was -- it was stunning moment, certainly shocking in that now sean hannity is this person who the -- michael cohen team did not want to reveal. we don't know his connection to the case, what kind of work michael cohen was doing for him. but we do know that sean hannitys that denied it. >> he did in fact deny it and he said this on his radio show, just a little while ago he said he did have legal conversations with michael cohen, but he had this explanation. listen. >> so i've known michael cohen a long, long time. and let me be clear to the media, michael never represented me in any matter, i never retained him in the traditional sense of retaining a lawyer, i never received an invoice from michael, i never paid legal fees to michael. but i have occasiona

your letter says on page two that stephen ryan of your firm has been working on the special counsel's investigation on the related house of representatives and senate inquiries regarding, among other things, campaign finance matters. i recognize, mr. harrison, that you personally just have come to this, but mr. ryan has been in it for awhile, right? stephen ryan responds, can i just mention, your honor, if you think of swim lanes in a pool, my swim lane was russia and the related issues to russia. and then the judge say, well, it says in the letter, as well as campaign financing. mr. ryan says, yeah, that's only happened within the last few weeks and it's in relation to federal campaign law issues this is narrow. with all due respect, your honor, all of us started on monday with a completely different matter. i want to say, there are five photographs in attachment a that deal directly with seeking the papers of the president of the united states in possession of my client. it's not what the government is represented is about my client's personal life. there are five photographs there.

again, quoted from stephen ryan, his liar. the u.s. attorney's office from the certain district of new york execute add series of search warrants and seized privileged communications between michael cohen and his clients. i've been advised by federal prosecutors that the new york action is in part a referral by the office of the special counsel, robert mueller. now, this might seem like a stretch when you're talking about how wall street trading was going, people were wondering how do we give up a better than 400 point rally, what had been in the final minutes about a 200-point rally. some people are citing this. charlie gasparino has been looking into that. we hope to have him shortly. meantime, i want to go to charles payne who has been investigating this. all you need is more uncertainty about where this investigation is going, even though this might not have anything to do with that. here bob mueller, his name invoked and you don't have to take a leap to see wall street's concern. >> absolutely. you want to talk about cell signals.

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. >> reporter: tonight, cohen's attorney, stephen ryan, calling the raid, quote, "completely inappropriate and unnecessary," adding, "it resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney/client communications between a lawyer and his clients." ryan also said the raid was a result of a referral by the special counsel bob mueller. a source tells abc news the fbi raids were not about russia. tonight, the case is being assigned to federal prosecutors in the southern district of new york. during the campaign, cohen became known for his sharp attacks supporting his boss and friend. >> but you guys are down, and it makes sense that there -- >> says who? >> polls. >> reporter: daniels, cohen and the president now locked in multiple legal battles. daniels' attorney claims their hush agreement is void because the president did not sign it. and in the past 24 hours, filed a new motion to depose the president. attorneys for cohen have filed their own lawsuit, attempting to bring the matter into arbitration. >> and pierre thomas with us live tonight from washington. and pierre, just a few momen

. >> reporter: tonight, cohen's attorney, stephen ryan, calling the raid quote "completely inappropriate and unnecessary," adding "it resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney-client communications between a lawyer and his clients." ryan also said the raid was the result of a referral by the special counsel bob mueller. a source tells abc news the fbi raids were not about russia. tonight, the case is being assigned to federal prosecutors in the southern district of new york. during the campaign, cohen became known for his sharp attacks supporting his boss and friend. >> but you guys are down, and it -- >> says who? >> polls. >> reporter: daniels, cohen and the president now locked in multiple legal battles. daniels s daniels' attorney claims their hush agreement is void because the president didn't sign it, and in the past 24 hours, filed a new motion to depose the president. attorneys for cohen have filed their own suit attempting to bring the matter into arbitration. >> and pierre, just a few moments ago, as you know, the president weighing in on this raid. let's listen

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now, in today's proceedings that are underway right now, stephen ryan, one of cohen's attorneys was asked by the judge to specifically name the other name because they said it wouldn't fall under attorney client privilege to withhold that name. he stood up and named him as sean hannity. so moving on to the rest of what is happening today. there's been a good deal of back and forth filings over this issue since last night. cohen and lawyers for president trump asked the judge if their teams could review the seized evidence before prosecutors. but earlier this morning, cohen seemed to change his tune and adjusted his request to ask for a third party or what is known as a special master to be appointed by the court to review the records. mr. trump's team wants to review the documents themselves. the u.s. attorney's office responded submitting another letter to the court which says the proposal offered by mr. trump's legal team that they would be the first to screen the documents for attorney client privilege, would set a dangerous precedent. adding that such a rule is unworkable and rights f

cohen's attorney stephen ryan says the f-b-i executed "a series of search warrants" to seize "privileged communications" between cohen and his clients.a source says the feds also seized items between mister trump and cohen. page pate/cnn legal analyst/criminal defense attorney"what i would love to see is the affidavit supporting these search warrants, the statements made by the agents to establish enough probable cause to get a judge to sign off on this warrant."ryan says the raid stemmed partly from a referral by the office of special counsel robert mueller, who is leading the russia investigation.so, could mueller see a pink slip sometime soon?president trump/no font needed"we'll see what happens, but it's really a sad situation when you look at what happened and many people have said 'you should fire him.' again, they found nothing."and while some agree when the president calls this ongoing probe a "witch hunt..." steve cortes/former trump campaign operative"this is a sham investigation, this is his own justice department trying to usurp the power of the presidency."others feel differ

we have a statement from stephen ryan, who is michael cohen's attorney. the attorney representing the attorney, if you will, said the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york executed a series of search warrants and seized privileged communications between my client michael cohen and his client. ryan was advised that, by federal prosecutors that the new york action was in part due to a referral from the special counsel robert mueller. that's where we have the time between what's going on here in washington and what happened there in new york. cohen's attorney goes on to complain about the seizure of privileged documents saying it was completely inappropriate and unnecessary. resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney-client communications between a lawyer and his client. ryan going on to say there was no reason for them to do this because cohen provided thousands of nonprivileged documents to congress and separate depositions under oath. stormy daniels, her attorney couldn't wait to show his glee at this latest developme

cohen's attorney, stephen ryan, says, agents seized privileged communications between cohen and his clients. ryan also said, the raid stemmed partially.. from a referral by the office of special counsel robert mueller. cohen is a confidant of president trump's... he admitted to paying 130- thousand dollars to porn actress stormy daniels. the president called the raids a "witch hunt". (pam) now an update on a lawsuit before the federal appeals court ... on an equal pay ruling. an eleven judge panel ruled unanimously in favor of a fresno county school employee. she said she was paid less than her male counterparts for the same work... based on her previous salary. now, the fresno county school superintendent plans to appeal to the u-s supreme court. the ruling said those differences were based on discrimination in the job market. but in a statement, the superintendent said, the policy of his office for determining salaries did not discriminate on the basis of gender. (pam) a tennessee man wanted in a double homicide has apparently killed himself in mississippi.(steve) casey lawhorn shot his m

his name is stephen ryan. he says the decision by the u.s. attorney's office in new york to conduct their investigation using search warrants is completely inappropriate and unnecessary. it resulted in unnecessary seizure of protected attorney/client communications between a lawyer and his clients. these government tactics are also wrong because mr. cohen cooperated completely with all government entities including providing thousands of non-privileged documentses to congress and sitting for their deposition under oath. the attorney for michael cohen obviously a little disturbed by the developments here where the fbi raided his office and took the documents. fbi sources are saying this is related to a number of different investigations including that 130,000-dollar payment to stormy daniels, the adult film actress who potentially had an affair with president donald trump. her attorney actually released a statement today also very quickly saying that mr. cohen has been placed in these cross-hairs by mr. trump. this could end very badly for the

he stood up in court this lawyer stephen ryan and he basically said sean hannity ands can you imagine, there was really shock in the courtroom. people ran out, including myself to report the news. >> and sean hannity just addressed this on his radio show. we'll bring that sound in a minute or so. shimon, we've learned that the u.s. attorney's office is describing this investigation as fast-moving and that even aside from the raids they have, quote, considerable information about michael cohen's activity. what does that mean? >> reporter: so this was in a transcript that aoccurred on friday. a side bar conversation that was released today. and essentially it apee -- it appears government has been working on this for quite sometime. they obtained e-mails from other covert warrants they submitted and reviewed e-mails, and several mail accounts according to the court filing today. in addition, jake, in court we learned this afternoon that the fbi seized some ten boxes of material, this is some of the material that cohen is claiming is privileged and learned there are hard drives and other

ryan harness nasa scientists working on the project at cape canaveral and he told me exactly what tess is looking out for. one of the big goals of the mission is to find small planets rocky planets like the earth in the habitable zone or who stars if a planet is too close to its star that all the water boils off if the planet is too far away from us are all the water turns into ice it's only in a small range where you can have liquid water on the surface of the planet and two things that pretty much everybody agrees on is that if you want to why you need to have a rock for them to stand on and you need to have water liquid water so we're going to find some small rocky planets like earth in the habitable zones there who stars so we're going to know that there are no answers not. with follow observations and because these are going to be around bright stars we can do these kinds of off we're going to be able to further explore these planets the bigger out if they truly are how good or not it may take us a long time because really proving the planet is how who is an extremely challenging

ryan hart is a nasa scientist working on the project at cape canaveral and he explains exactly what tests will search for. one of the big goals of the mission is to find small planets rocky planets like the earth in the habitable zones of their or who stars if a planet is too close to its star that all the water boils off the planet is too far away from us are all the water turns into ice it's only a small range where you can have liquid water on the surface of the planet and two things never do much everybody agrees on is that if you want to why you need to have a rock for them to stand on and you need to have water liquid water so we're going to find some small rocky planets like earth in the habitable zones there who stars so we're going to know that they're not so i'm not happy. with follow up observations and because these are going to be around bright star that we can do these kind of off we're going to be able to further explore these planets and figure out if they truly are how or not it may take us a long time because really proving the planet is happy who is an extremely c

stephen ryan said he was okay with the scial master, that he was a fine pick. she's a retired federal judge. ey're not upset abo that. but a lot of people are not talking. i talked to so many or tried to talk to so many lyers or secretaries and pr people, and no one wanted to talk about this. th probably goes back tothe idea that the president is someone that's hard to control and his lawyers are tryi to figure out what to say when he's giving 15-minute-long interviews to "fox and friends." >> yang: white housepo corrent yamiche alcindor, thanks very much. >> yang: now, we turn to one of the president's top cabinet members who's been under fire himself: e.p.a. administrator scott pruitt. his appearances before two house committees today were ostensibly about budget matters. ht lawmakers put him on t seat for all sorts of different reasons. di a moment, jeffrey brown talks with lisa desj about the politics and the policy at issue. but we begin with lisa's look at pruitt's day on capitol hill. in desjardins: long a ligh rod on environmental policy, this was e.p.a

. >> reporter: last night cohen's attorney stephen ryan calling the raids completely inappropriate and unnecessary adding, it resulted in the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney/client communications between a lawyer and his clients. cohen has said he tried to resolve daniels' allegations, which he says are untrue, as part of his friendship with mr. trump. but critics have suggested that the $130,000 payment amounted to a campaign contribution aimed at helping trump in the election by keeping the daniels allegation secret. sources tell abc news the special counsel's team uncovered information that concerned them and discussed it with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein because it appeared outside of the special counsel's mandate of investigating russia. rosenstein decided to refer the matter to the u.s. attorney's office in the southern district of new york, which then sought a search warrant after a review. george. >> right, approved by a judge. okay, pierre, thanks very much. >>> now to that furious response from president trump. i want to go to jon karl and, jon, what a sur

. >> stephen: no, we believe you. we didn't want you to have that job, either. of course, there's a lot of speculation that ryan is jumping ship before a big democratic wave sweeps the midterms. but, according to ryan's friends, there's another reason ryan is leaving. "after ryan passed tax reform, his longtime dream, he was ready to step out of a job that has become endlessly frustrating, in part because of president trump." what? working with president trump is frustrating? that's not what the last 30 people who quit said. ( laughter ) but i get it. ( cheers and applause ) but-- ( applause ) i get it. ryan's "longtime dream" has been reforming the tax code. i mean, ever since he was a kid, playing with his ayn rand action figure. ( laughter ) there's no doll inside, because the kid has to build it himself. and the president wasted no time releasing his own statement, tweeting, "speaker paul ryan is a truly good man, and while he will not be seeking re-election, he will leave a legacy of achievement that nobody can question. we are with you, paul!" yes, republi

, kevin mccarthy, house republican conference chair cathy mcmorris rogers, treasury secretary stephen min knew shen. it's starting tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. eastern time right here. >> all to celebrate tax day. >> yes the 17th this year because of a holiday today. >> right favorite day as americans. >> holiday only in d.c., right >> yeah. and another look at the markets. i'm going to washington for you, make sure you watch us "squawk on the street" going down to the swamp. 'squawk on the street is next. ♪ >> good monday morning welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm karl the dow seeing a 200 point gain as earnings season gets in gear. investors respond to friday's missile launch in syria. europe trying to shrug off losses retail coming positive after

ryan. " you can you congress or other means to give us your thoughts this morning. let's go to stephen, independent line, south dakota. you are next up. caller: good morning. i see that a lot of people seem to be getting their views from hate radio, and their definitions of what is democracy , that means people rule. but as we have now, the oligarchs rule. we have a military industrial complex, as has been brought out by generals butler and eisenhower and others. hold our public officials accountable with the full power of the law. we need to charge them with conspiracies and other crimes when they committed those crimes, including treason. it shouldn't be waiting until someone is voted out of office and then let them go on their merry way. as we the be there people rule, and if somebody was working for us at a private business and pulled the kind of stuff that these elected officials are pulling on the american public, then they would be held accountable certainly. we could take them to court and prosecute. host: ok. that is stephen in south dakota. jan on twitter