President Trump again lashed out at his Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the heels of his personal attorney Michael Cohen's office and home being raided by the FBI.

'The attorney general made a terrible mistake when he did this and when he recused himself, or he should have certainly let us know if he was going to recuse himself, and we would have used a, put a different attorney general in,' the president said late Monday afternoon. 'So he made what I consider to be a very terrible mistake for the country. But you'll figure that out.'

The president also brought up Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who Bloomberg reported had signed off on the Cohen raid after being approached by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, noting how Rosenstein had agreed that Trump should fire ex-FBI Director James Comey, which prompted Rosenstien's appointment of Mueller.

President Trump slammed his Attorney General Jeff Sessions (left) after his personal attorney Michael Cohen's office and home were raided by the FBI, which was signed off on by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (right)

Fury: Trump called the raid ordered by federal prosecutors on his personal attorney Michael Cohen's hotel room and offices 'an attack on our country and what we all stand for'.

'I think it's a disgrace what's going on. We'll see what happens,' Trump uttered when asked why he doesn't fire Mueller, before starting in on Rosenstein.

'Again, they found nothing and in finding nothing that's a big statement because you know the person who is in charge of the investigation, you know all about that,' Trump said, suggesting the Russia probe has come up empty-handed.

'Deputy Rod Rosenstein he wrote the letter very critical of Comey,' the president pointed out, suggesting they should be in line. Trump, again, argued that he was right to fire Comey in the first place.

'But it turns out [Rosenstein] also signed the FISA warrant,' referring to the warrant used to spy on the president's campaign associate Carter Page. 'Rod Rosenstein who's in charge also signed the FISA warrant and he also wrote the letter that fired Comey and he was right about that. He was absolutely right about that.'

FBI agents swooped in on the offices of longtime Donald Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen Monday – seizing a trove of documents related to the porn star Stormy Daniels case and communications between the attorney and the president, in a dramatic escalation of Mueller's special counsel probe.

Agents got a warrant based on a 'referral' from Mueller, Cohen's lawyer claimed, according to a report in the New York Times, only days after Trump had denied having anything to do with paying the porn star.

Hours later at the White House, flanked by cabinet members who were there to discuss how to respond to a chemical weapons attack in Syria, he raged: 'They raid an office of a personal attorney early in the morning and I think it's a disgrace.'

Trump called it 'an attack on our country and what we all stand for'.

He said agents 'broke into' Michael's Cohen's Manhattan office – a reference to search warrants executed that swept up a trove of documents related to the $130,000 payment to porn star Daniels as well as communications between Trump and his lawyer.

Fighting talk: Trump had been meeting senior military leaders and members of his national security team - including (right) his new national security advisor John Bolton - when he launched his angry tirade against the Mueller raid

Michael Cohen, a personal attorney for President Trump, had his hotel room and office both raided by the FBI acting on the instructions of the attorney general

Raided: Michael Cohen had been living at the Loews Regency on Park Avenue, close to Trump Tower, and had FBI agents raid his room there on Monday morning.

He called Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators 'the most conflicted group of people I have ever seen.'

'This is the most biased group of people. These people have the biggest conflicts of interest I've ever seen. Democrats all, just about all,' Trump said, although Mueller himself is a Republican.

Agents seized tax documents and business records as they raided the Lowes Regency hotel on Park Avenue where Cohen had been staying, and his office in 30 Rockefeller Plaza, just above NBC's studios.

On Monday evening, the president continued to tout Mueller's failure to charge Trump or anyone on his team of colluding with the Russians, even as the probe continues to bring in members of his inner circle on other matters.

'They found no collusion whatsoever with Russia,' said Trump, seated in front of national security advisor John Bolton, experiencing his first day on the job.

Trump's remarks then meandered into territory explored by the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee and the early days of the Russia investigation.

They also dwelled on Rosenstein – a pivotal figure who's removal might be necessary in order to engineer Mueller's ouster.

A DOJ Inspector General is probing FBI conduct in the Clinton and Russia probes. Republicans on the panel have complained about a surveillance warrant that authorities got on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page over his Russia contacts.

Continuing to go after Rosenstein, Trump said: 'But it turns out he also signed the FISA warrant -- Rod Rosenstein who's in charge also signed the FISA warrant and he also signed a letter that was essentially saying to fire James, Comey and he was right about that. He was absolutely right about that.'

'This is a pure and simple witch hunt,' Trump said.

Trump repeatedly sought to cast the probe as a hindrance to his ability to conduct his office, complaining that he was trying to plan to counter a chemical weapons attack in Syria.

And he called on Justice Department investigators to focus on ‘crimes’ on the ‘other side’ – meaning Democrats and the Hillary Clinton camp.

‘So I just heard they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys,’ Trump began using terminology associated with a crime.

‘It's a disgraceful situation. It's a total witch hunt. I've been saying it for a long time. I've wanted to keep it down. I've given over a million pages in documents to the special counsel,’ he said.

‘They continue to just go forward and here we are talking about Syria, we're talking about a lot of serious things ... and I have this witch hunt constantly going on for over 12 months now. Actually it's much more than that. You could say right after I won the nomination it started,’ Trump continued.

'When I saw this, when I heard about it, that is a whole new level of unfairness,’ he said.

"This is the most biased group of people. These people have the biggest conflicts of interest I have ever seen. Democrats -- all. Either Democrats or a couple of Republicans who worked for President Obama,’ he vented.

‘They're not looking at the other side -- Hillary Clinton... all of the crimes that were committed, all of the things that happened that everybody is very angry about from the Republican side and the independent side. They only keep looking at us,’ Trump went on.

The raid appears most likely to be related to Cohen's $130,000 payment to Daniels days before the election - but the FBI, Mueller, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York all declined to comment on the purpose.

The raid prompted a furious response from Cohen's own attorney, who said that 'privileged communications' had been seized.

'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,' said Cohen's attorney Stephen Ryan.

'I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller,' he said.

'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 the unnecessary seizure of protected attorney client communications between a lawyer and his clients.'

In a bizarre twist, Irish UFC star Conor McGregor had been staying at the Loews hotel after being charged with felony criminal mischief and a string of other crimes after he attacked a bus carrying other UFC stars with a dolly at the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn last week.

Daniels' lawyer Avenatti tweeted: 'An enormous amount of misplaced faith has been placed on MC's shoulders IMO. If he does not hold up, this could end very very badly for DJT and others.'

His client had just announced that she would pose nude for Penthouse and be interviewed on her account of sex with Trump in much more explicit terms than she had spoken during her 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper.

Mueller is overseeing the probe of contacts between Russians and the Trump campaign.

CNN reported that President Trump had watched TV broadcasts of the FBI raid on his longtime personal attorney – and that he knew about the raid before the news came out.

Daniels is suing to have a nondisclosure agreement she and Cohen signed whereby she got $130,000 and agreed not to disclose any details of a relationship with a man.

It all goes back to this: Daniels claims she and Trump had an affair in 2006. She took a $130,000 payment from Cohen in return for signing a gag order just before the election. That appears to now be at the center of a federal probe

Cohen's lawyer claims the referral came from special counsel Robert Mueller's office

Cohen says he made the payment with his own funds and without Trump's knowledge. Bank records have revealed he set up a Delaware LLC shortly before the payment was made to Daniels from the LLC.

Daniels claims she had a sexual affair with Trump, who did not sign the agreement, although a pseudonym for him was left blank on the final agreement.

She has spoken about the alleged affair on CBS '60 Minutes' notwithstanding the agreement that her lawyer says is void.

Cohen says he paid the money out of his topic to help Trump. He says he made it out of his own personal funds.

Ryan claimed agents seized 'protected attorney client communications,' the Associated Press reported, without further explanation.

The raid comes just days after Trump made his first comments on the porn star aboard Air Force One Thursday – and denied any advance knowledge of the payment that appeared to benefit him and his campaign just days before the 2016 election.

Asked if he knew about the payment, the president said 'No.'

Asked why Cohen made the payment, Trump said: 'Michael is my attorney. You'll have to ask Michael.'

The, asked by reporters on Air Force One if he knew where the money came from, Trump said: 'No, I don't know.'

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is suing for relief from a non-disclosure agreement that her lawyer claims is null and invalid.

Bloomberg reported that Mueller brought the information to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing the Russia probe and who decided that it should be handled by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District.

Mueller's general area deals with Russia-related matters. Under a memo partially revealed in a Mueller court filing, he is to go to Rosenstein's office for matters that fall outside his jurisdiction.

Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, has been keeping the story in the news, now claiming he has a forensic sketch of a man who threatened her to keep quiet in 2011.

Avenatti said Cohen: 'has been placed in the crosshairs by Mr. Trump. He has been set up to take the fall.'

He also filed court papers Sunday to try to force Trump to answer questions about the agreement.

He is seeking a jury trial and wants sworn testimony from Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, about a $130,000 payment made to Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election as part of a nondisclosure agreement she is seeking to invalidate.

Stormy Daniels in her interview with Anderson Cooper to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, March 25

The actress Stephanie Clifford, who uses the stage name Stormy Daniels, performs at the Solid Gold Fort Lauderdale strip club on March 9, 2018 in Pompano Beach, Florida

Michael Avenatti on CNN April 9, 2018

Michael Avenatti tweeted the photo on Sunday of Daniels with Lois Gibson, who he referred to as 'the foremost forensic artist in the world'

'We're going to be releasing that tomorrow along with a significant reward asking that the public come forward,' Avenatti said on CNN. 'We are very close to identifying this individual.'

He predicted that identifying the man his client says threatened her in a Las Vegas parking lot will ' tighten the noose, if you will.'

It's unclear how Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, could remember facial features of the man seven years later. But Avenatti hinted that the result will point to the president or his inner circle.

The threat 'could only have come from one of three places,' he said confidently.

'My client, which means she threatened herself, which makes no sense; In Touch magazine, which makes no sense because why would they threaten my client relating to the publication of an interview in their own magazine?; or someone associated with Trump or the Trump Organization.'

Daniels said in a Los Angeles court filing she always thought Trump was a party to the deal.

'Such an agreement would not have made sense for many reasons,' she said in the filing.

'It was my understanding that Donald Trump was a party to the Settlement Agreement and that he was going to sign both documents,' Daniels said.

Her lawyer is trying to establish a basis for questioning Trump about the deal, even though he is not a signatory.

Beyond his attorney's statement, it is not clear what the overall objective of the search was.

Cohen appears in the infamous Steele Dossier of unverified information about President Trump and ties between his associates and Russia.

He is suing Buzzfeed for publishing the document.

Even if Stormy Documents got scooped up, it is possible warrants were seeking information of another variety.

Cohen was in contact for the Trump Organization with Russian-American businessman Felix Sater in 2015 about a proposed Trump Tower Moscow.

In a noter to Cohen reported by the New York Times, Sater wrote: 'Lets make this happen and build a Trump Moscow. And possibly fix relations between the countries by showing everyone that commerce & business are much better and more practical than politics. That should be Putins message as well, and we will help him agree on that message. Help world peace and make a lot of money, I would say thats a great lifetime goal for us to go after.'

'Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,' Sater wrote.

Mueller is probing an array of contacts between Trump associates and Russians.

Trump has said repeatedly there was 'no collusion.'

The White House declined to comment on the raid when asked about it.

Watchdog group Common Cause has filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission arguing that the payments to Daniels constitute a possible violation of campaign finance laws.

Paul Ryan of Common Cause told USA Today: 'I'm happy to see the DOJ is doing its job. Donald Trump said he knew nothing about the payment to Stormy Daniels. The FBI will now quickly get to the bottom of whether Trump lied to the American people when he said no knowledge about Michael Cohen's payment to Stormy Daniels,' he said.

Cohen also hand-delivered a so-called peace plan for Russia and Ukraine that would have lifted sanctions on Russia to fired national security advisor Michael Flynn, according to a Times report on the February delivery of a sealed plan.

Cohen delivered it a week before Flynn resigned.

The raid on Trump's longtime consigliere and latest twist in the Russia probe comes as Trump called out Russian President Vladimir Putin on Twitter by name for the first time following a suspected chemical weapons attack by the pro-Russia regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Syrian rebel territory.

The White House kicked out 60 Russian diplomats following the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain, and leveled new sanctions on Russian entities.

The raid immediately raised issues of attorney-client privilege. Cohen was the president's personal lawyer during the presidential campaign, which means their communications are assumed to be beyond the reach of law enforcement and the courts.

A critical loophole exists, however: the 'crime-fraud exception.' That allows prosecutors to use privileged material if it shows a client intended to further or cover up a crime.

Because of the usually sacrosanct nature of attorney-client communications, the FBI will likely use a 'taint team' to keep prosecutors from seeing anything privileged that could later cause a criminal conviction to be voided.