Stormy Daniels’s lawyer Michael Avenatti said Thursday that his conversations with President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE’s former longtime attorney Michael Cohen have fallen through, prompting him to believe that Cohen "isn't prepared to do the right thing."

"We’ve been in communication with his lawyers, but those communications have broke [sic] off," Avenatti told Bloomberg Television. "It’s become clear to me that Michael Cohen isn’t prepared to do the right thing."

Avenatti had previously said he would be willing to settle with Cohen in Daniels’s case against the attorney and to represent Cohen in any potential cases against Trump.

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Daniels is suing to void a nondisclosure agreement she signed about an alleged affair with Trump in exchange for a $130,000 payment orchestrated by Cohen. She is also suing both men for defamation.

Avenatti said last month that he would be willing to represent Cohen “if he was prepared to do the right thing, come clean, and basically turn state's evidence."

"Michael Cohen and I actually had the chance to converse," he said at the time, calling their conversation "positive."

Cohen is under federal investigation for potential bank fraud and campaign finance violations, and officials are reportedly examining payments he made to women on behalf of Trump.

Cohen, who long billed himself as Trump's "fixer," has been quick to distance himself from the president in recent weeks. CNN reported last month that Cohen is willing to tell special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE that Trump approved a 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Trump campaign officials who promised to offer dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonFox News poll: Biden ahead of Trump in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Ohio Trump, Biden court Black business owners in final election sprint The power of incumbency: How Trump is using the Oval Office to win reelection MORE.

Trump and others have long maintained that the president was unaware of the meeting. Trump's newest attorney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, made the same assertion following CNN's report.