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We would call legal work per se seems to me a play to put this in the penumbra of privilege. can that hold up? >> not if its tested in a court. remember when michael cohens office was raided and trump said, well, you know, attorney/client privilege. this is an attack on it. republicans all day, this was crazy. how many of those documents ended up being privileged when a judge reviewed them, like ten? >> youre right. they had a whole process to sort them. >> if you get a judge, a neutral observer...

A way they dont with other witnesses, because as mimi says, sdny is clearly making him a subject and now congress is as well. he is really fit to -- i mean, there aftvery few it seems to m strategies for the white house at this point, but one of them might be throw rudy from the train because that final communication between him and trump is not very clear, but we know everything that rudy was doing and its all nasty and corrupt without a doubt. >> that is a very good point. i also wonder about ...

From the president himself ambassador taylor draws a straight line to donald trump. running according to his testimony right through the presidents private attorney and apparent bag man rudy giuliani. the same giuliani whose name came up 480 times in the transcripts we saw yesterday. 480 times. he is all over the testimony again tonight. and in a twist, giuliani today said he was acting solely in the interests of his client, the president. some legal experts believe claiming attorney/client priv...

Me he knows hes in hot water here. >> last night we saw him come up for air briefly on twitter and ill show you what he wrote. well put it on the screen and i wanted to ask you if this is a valid defense. "with all the fake news, let me make it clear that everything i did was to discover evidence to defend my client against false charges. dems would be horrified by the attacks on me if my client was a terrorist, but they dont believe donald trump has rights. justice will prevail." the portion we...

Me he knows hes in hot water here. >> last night we saw him come up for air briefly on twit and ill sh show you what he wrote. i wanted to ask you if this is a valid defense. "with all the fake news, let me make it clear that everything i did was to discover evidence to defend my client against false charges. dems would be horrified by the attacks on me if my client was a terrorist, but they dont believe donald trump has rights. justice will prevail." the portion weve highlighted there, whats th...

And you say those are unrelated? people are trying to ask is the connection between what is it would seem to be there is a happening with this arraignment relationship? >> defense secretary mark esper and the implications it could have on the impeachment inquiry. said last week that turkey try to connect the dots for us appears to be committing war between why today is significant and the larger inquiry taking crimes. do you disagree with that? >> we would say that the turkish place with the pre...

Government official. number two -- hes got to come forward and attorney/client privilege. were not even sure 100%, because trump when asked about that not long ago said, oh, hes my attorney. got to ask him. do we know for sure? he needs to show up. he needs to produce his documents. the people, the president of the united states is in a big cover-up and giulianis in a big cover-up and the people around him are in a big cover-up. >> the big question, who is he representing beyond the president of...

Who was rudy trying to deal with? a little sloppy. this gold dealer here, also. he was helping on. andrew, again, the question there is, he says, at the similsame time, im not working for any government. i dont have to register as a lobbyist. but i cant talk to you about why i was trying to get this iranian-turkish gold dealer out of a criminal situation of the united states, because of attorney/client privilege. hes the bauelawyer. does that mean he is exempt of my laws requiring registration? ...

He hasnt said i just felt it was unfair so ill talk to my -- oh, im a little sloppy. im not the wizard of oz here. the question there is -- at the same time he says im not working for any government and i dont have to register as a lobbyist but i cant talk to you about why i was trying to get this iranian turkish gold dealer out of a criminal situation with the united states because of attorney/client privilege. okay, so hes the lawyer. does that mean he is exempt from any laws requiring registr...

Over to turkey, what erdogan wants, how was trump responding? >> the president was amenable to the idea. we talked to a number of officials saying the president considered erdogan to be a friend and wanting to give erdogan what he wanted, but others in the white house at the time who said that he should not do it. it could violate the legal process, create political problems for him that a cleric would most certainly be endangered if not killed in turkey. fears in the white house about him doing...