MSNBC: Feds Wiretapped Michael Cohen’s Phones Several Weeks Before Raid

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WINTER: "So what we know is that federal investigators pursuant to a lawful court order warrant were able to wiretap the phone lines of Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen. That this wiretap occurred several weeks before the now public search warrant that was executed here in New York several weeks ago. In addition to that, we’ve learned that at least one phone call conversation between a line belonging to Michael Cohen and the White House was also intercepted. So right now, I think the key headlines, there was a wiretap associated with the Michael warrant, search warrant in the federal criminal investigation into Michael Cohen who is of course Trump’s personal attorney. The second thing that we’ve learned is there’s at least one phone conversation that was picked up on a phone line belonging to Michael Cohen and the White House. And the third is that this was going on for several weeks before that search warrant took place. In addition to that -- and I’ll -- I'll let my colleague Julia Ainsley talk about it, this has been a discussion within the White House, but this is obviously just another step in the -- in the investigation and, as we know from court papers, federal prosecutors have already said that they conducted covert surveillance of Michael Cohen’s e-mails leading up to the search warrant being executed. So, this is a lot more than just knocking on the door and asking for some documents, Kasie."