U.S. judge questions special counsel's powers in Manafort case

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President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, contacted the drug giant Novartis after the 2016 election "promising access" to the new administration, and special counsel Robert Mueller later requested information from the company about the offer, a senior official inside Novartis told NBC News on Wednesday.

Cohen "contacted us after the new administration was in place," the official said. "He was promising access to the new administration." Novartis then signed a one-year, $1.2 million contract with Cohen.

So, NBC news is basing this report on info obtained from an unnamed, therefore unaccountable, someone who they're labeling as "a senior official".

Uh huh.