President Donald Trump has condemned his former lawyer Michael Cohen amid US media reports that he secretly recorded Mr Trump discussing payments to a former Playboy model.
The tapes were reportedly discovered during an FBI raid on Mr Cohen's property earlier this year in New York.
Mr Trump tweeted that such a raid was "almost unheard of".
He added that a lawyer secretly recording a client was "totally unheard of and perhaps illegal".
The president also insisted he had done nothing wrong.
The New York Times reports that in the recording, Mr Trump and Mr Cohen discuss paying Karen McDougal, who says she had an affair with Mr Trump.
The tape was reportedly made two months before the 2016 election that saw Mr Trump become president.
(Source: BBC)