Jessica Roth:

Well, what we see certainly is a contrast between the two filings, one from the Southern District and one from the special counsel's office.

And the filing from the special counsel's office makes it clear that Mr. Cohen has provided information about four areas that it enumerated, some of which are described in a way that's fairly opaque and could involve the president and other people in the White House.

There is a reference to people connected to the White House in, I think, the 2017 to 2018 period, but it's not elaborated further what those communications were about specifically. But there is enough there to suggest that people affiliated with President Trump, and possibly the president himself, were involved in some of the conduct that Mr. Cohen himself was involved in.

Certainly, that's already been alleged. And Mr. Cohen has said as much in court, in terms of him coordinating with the president, who is identified as Individual 1, with — or candidate for federal office in different filings — with respect to the payments to the women during the campaign, the women who alleged the president, had affairs with them — with him.

And so there's lots of statements that potentially could connect conduct to the president and to close to the president.