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Number two -- >> let me play that exchange. >> okay. >> so people can hear, this is what rudy giuliani said about that moment. this is rudy giuliani talking about the conversations apparently that president trump had with michael cohen, his former attorney about that congressional testimony. >> you just acknowledged that its possible that president trump talked to michael cohen about his testimony. >> which would be perfectly normal. the president believed was true. >> its possible that happened...

Certain -- him and certainly did not tell him to lie. >> you just acknowledged it possible that president trump talked to michael cohen about his testimony. >> which would be perfectly normal, which the president believed is true. >> so it possible that president trump talked to michael cohen. >> i dont know if it happened or it didnt happen and it might be attorney/client privilege, if it happened, where i cant acknowledge it. >> the media, including this program, struggled on friday on how to ...

Giuliani said to "the new york times," he essentially made himself a fact witness because he said the president told me that he was having discussions from beginning to end. those are also inconsistent with some of the statements that he was making sunday. so hes made inconsistent statements. he suggested that hes had conversations that you could argue make it difficult for him to preserve attorney/client privilege, at least on those conversations. now im not saying we know that for a fact or th...

Pbs "news hours" yamish allicinda-cristina greer and republican strategist, rick tyler. cristina, it may have been lawyer/client privilege, i dont know. but even with lawyer/client privilege, you cant tell your lawyer to lie before congress. i mean, that steps outside of the bounds of a lawyer -- a client kind of conversation, wouldnt you think? >> right. indeed, rev. but i think, you know, youve been in new york quite some time. and we know that this president is used to lying, right? i mean, y...

Judge: all right. and now, of course, little adam schiff, as you call him, is going to be dragging in, and jerry nadler are going to be bringing in michael cohen, an already-proven liar, to congress, convicted of it, are you worried -- >> no, look, i was a client of his. youre supposed to have lawyer/client privilege, but it doesnt matter because if im a very honest person, frankly. but hes on trouble on some loans and fraud and taxi cabs and stuff that i know nothing about. and in order to get ...

Request for testimony fall outside the scope of oversight, and more specifically, they will say there is executive privilege, there is deliberative process privilege, there is attorney/client privilege. both sides have weapons and defenses, but its not going to be as easy as it has been for trump so far. >> the prosecutors, they have an advantage here to some degree, right? they have two inside men, two major players in the trump organization. michael cohen, of course, but allen weisselberg, the...

From michael cohen on whether or not this payment was okay, and michael cohen told him it was when, in fact, it wasnt. im confident thats not the story that were going to hear. and, by the way, if you do make that defense, you have to waive attorney/client privilege. so all of a sudden all of your communications with michael cohen lose their privilege. and then youre laid bare, all of your conversations with cohen. so its going to be a loser for a variety of reasons. but one of which is that mic...

And, by the way, if you do make that defense, you have to waive attorney/client privilege. so all of a sudden all of your communications with michael cohen lose their privilege. and then youre laid bare, all of your conversations with cohen. so its going to be a loser for a variety of reasons. but one of which is that michael cohen is likely -- would likely, if he were to testify, contradict that. and that would be corroborated by the recording between the two that we know of as well as other re...

Not this payment was okay, and michael cohen told him it was when, in fact, it wasnt. im confident thats not the story that were going to hear. and, by the way, if you do make that defense, you have to waive attorney/client privilege. so all of a sudden all of your communications with michael cohen lose their privilege. and then youre laid bare, all of your conversations with cohen. so its going to be a loser for a variety of reasons. but one of which is that michael cohen is likely -- would lik...

Or february as we thought, but march. so, that at least this part of the special counsel is still going to be going when we get to march. >> and so, we also, one more question, pete. we also dont know about this communication. did the government know that he was back channeling the white house after the plea deal? >> well, so what we are talking about here is the joint defense agreement that was structured by probably 30 or so people who were under investigation by mueller who are all sharing in...