Rudy Giuliani: Michael Cohen not cooperating with federal prosecutors in New York

“We’re very comfortable if he cooperates. There’s nothing he can cooperate about with regard to President Trump,” he continued.

News that Cohen was “likely” to cooperate with authorities follows speculation that come Friday he would no longer be represented by Stephen Ryan and Todd Harrison of McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, in federal court proceedings before U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood in Manhattan, per ABC News. The report said a replacement counsel had not been identified.

But sources told the Wall Street Journal that Cohen was yet to make up his mind about cooperating.

Cohen’s home, office, and hotel room were raided by the FBI on April 9 as part of a probe conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York after it received a referral from the office of special counsel Robert Mueller. Cohen has not been charged with a crime, but investigators are looking into whether he broke any tax or campaign finance laws.

Giuliani on Wednesday said that he “empathized greatly” with Cohen’s predicament, adding he advised Trump not to reach out to Cohen to offer his support because it could be “misunderstood.”

“I still trust him until they show me something to the contrary,” Giuliani said of Cohen.

Cohen’s legal team has until Friday to complete its review of the more than 3.7 million materials seized in the raids and make claims of attorney-client privilege.