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Attorney/client privilege communications. essentially they were following michael cohen along. what we dont learn in the documents is a lot of detail about why they believed he was committing campaign finance law. >> will they release that information once that investigation wraps up? people are going to want to know. evan, you have hundreds of pages. you have a lot of redactions including that entire campaign finance part here. >> thats right. there is almost 20 pages that are redacted from t...

To my client and her attorney/client privilege communications. >> hes now saying he knows that some of it has to do with stormy daniels former lawyer and that the president is on one of these tapes. >> to cut through the jargon, what happened today is avenatti has to make the argument that this criminal investigation to. >> this is not the lawsuit. this is the federal government criminally looking into cohen. >> is so important to his adult film actress client that he should be allowed to parach...

Avenatti who got something of a. >> took an el today. >> he and drake. from the lawyer, from the bench who said basically like youve got to cut it out with the publicity. this is what avenatti had to say what he calls the trump tapes. take a lis. >> we now have what i will refer to as the trump tapes. mr. ryan admitted that there are audio recordings that michael cohen was taking for years and that those recordings are, to quote him, not only do they exist burks them are under lock and key and s...

Evidently heard. during that discussion mr. davidson disclosed attorney/client privileged communications that he had with my client. later, outside the courtroom, after michael cohens lawyer admitted that such repocordings might exist, michael avenatti called the recordings, the trump tapes. >> just like the nixon tapes years ago, we now have what i will refer to as the trump tapes. mr. ryan admitted that there are audio recordings that michael cohen was taking for years and that those recording...

Audio recordings that michael cohen was taking for years and that those recordings are, to quote him, not only do they exist, but they are under lock and key and some of them relate to my client and her attorney/client privilege communications. mr. cohen and his attorney mr. ryan should release all of those audio recordings to the american people and to congress so that they can be heard by all. >> michael avenatti outside a federal court house in new york city just a few hours ago following a h...

Will come in and the government, a separate team of prosecuters and investigators will look at the documents, see what may be attorney/client privilege and see what should be turned over as part of the search warrant. theres a time crunch on michael cohens attorney. thats the key news as it relates to the ondoing -- >> im going to interrupt you. michael avenatti is speaking right now. >> some of them relate to my client and her attorney/client privilege communications. mr. cohen and his attorney...

Which prosecutors say they are still reconstructing. michael avenatti was also there at the court, asking the judge to ask cohens lawyers about leaks, but the judge refused, saying as of now, avenatti, who is representing stormy daniels, has no standing in this case. >> we now have what i will refer to as the trump tapes. mr. ryan admitted that there are audio recordings that michael cohen was taking for years and that those recordings are to quote him, not only do they exist, but they are under...

At least meanwhile back in the new york case, those inconsistent statements damage michael cohen and trumps own argument that this universe of privileged documents is so large that it needs to be handled carefully. if michael cohen was a businessman that shrinks the circle. if he handled a tiny amount of legal projects, it makes the circle even smaller. a potential of attorney/client privilege communications. >> based on the tweet the president put out. very quickly, does she have a case? >> so ...

To change the taint rules when it comes to lawyer/client privilege communications. requiring that a judge, a judicial officer be present during the search of any lawyers office, and before anything can be seized, a preliminary determination has to be made by a judicial officer. only that judicial officer will listen and watch, and if he determines that anything is privileged, no government agent gets to see it. that way, first of all, no government agent does get to see it, theres no leak, becau...

Only had one client. so its not as if these thousands, if not millions, quote, these are quotes, those communications would all pertain to his work on behalf of the president. >> right, which goes back to even if donald trump doesnt do e-mail, you are saying that he, by invoking attorney/client privilege for that much material is effectively admitting that these were donald trump. when would he in your view, potentially have to plead the fifth? >> hes been ordered to appear at 2:00 on monday by ...