Feds Reportedly Kept Log of Calls on Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen’s Phones Weeks Before FBI Raid (UPDATE)

(Ed. Note — NBC News has corrected its report. See update below.)

Federal investigators wiretapped the phone lines of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, NBC News reported on Thursday.

Investigators obtained a court-ordered warrant to wiretap Cohen’s phones “several weeks before” FBI agents raided the lawyer’s home and office in New York and seized documents related to his work for Trump and dealings with porn star Stormy Daniels.

“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,” NBC News reporter Tom Winter said on MSNBC.

Watch above, via MSNBC.

UPDATE 5:10 p.m. ET — NBC News has corrected its report, and is now saying that Cohen’s phones were not tapped. A log of calls Cohen placed and received was kept, but investigators did not have the ability to listen in.

whoa: NBC is correcting its wiretap story on MSNBC right now, saying it was not a wiretap on Cohen phone. Says it was instead a log of phone calls known as a "pen register," so couldn't listen in

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