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Serious violation of ethics and lawyer client privilege. >> bret: could it be disbarred? >> if cohen willfully and deliberately leaked its content, there could be serious consequences, but i dont want to get there. i dont want to go there because i dont know the answer and i dont believe in accusing people until we know the facts. >> bret: what about the substance of what is talked about and what it indicates, that perhaps michael cohen has gotten to a place where hes going to cooperate with fed...

President back many years ago for many months. the other tapes, were hearing, some conversations have to do with the media. its not clear exactly whats on those tapes, but its that one tape that is really raising eyebrows. but really, its the backstory to this, poppy, thats even more interesting. lets remember, in this case, the special master was the one who was going through all of this evidence, deeming what is attorney/client privilege. >> the southern district on cohen? >> right. and she sa...

Content, if they are attorney/client privilege, unless the client waives the information. this is the beginning of a process, not the end of a process. >> alan dershowitz, we appreciate it. let me bring back in kim r kimberly atkins and sahi sahil kapure. >> michael cohen was not a normal lawyer. have i taped a conversation with clients? no. michael cohen is a fixer. he was meant to clean up donald trumps messes. the idea that you cant hustle a hustler. of course, he was using the same tactics...

Then-candidate, talking about payments to essentially buy the silence of karen mcgugcdougal. she claimed she had an affair with donald trump, something the president denied. he said, inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyeriers office, almost unheard of. even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client. is this attorney/client privilege here? >> we know the tape was deemed to be attorney/client privilege, but giuliani waived the privilege, perhaps to protect other tap...

What do we know about michael cohens part of it, which explains so much of the president basically becoming so unmoored this weekend. >> michael cohen in september of before the election, two months before the 2016 election, secretly record this conversation in which he talks to trump about essentially a second payment being made to ensure that this model does not speak out publicly. this is part of the stuff that the feds took from michael cohens office and that the authorities in new york are ...

There is a recording. we heard that there might be recordings seized by the fbi and he did secretly tape one conversation. there may be more. rudy giuliani confirms it. he said, "i dont want to pay her. nothing happened here." and then we find out tonight, wait a second, actually donald trump and his camp had to waive attorney/client privilege. did they want this story out there because its changeing the subject? >> always suspicious when stories come out on a friday. i think that giuliani proba...

We dont know why, and of course im not a lawyer, so lets have the attorney answer this, but are these conversation privileged, right? so michael cohen cant really talk about them or -- i dont know how that would come up in a trial. i just dont have any idea. >> they may be privileged but not necessarily. there is an attorney/client privilege, but there are two important qualifications. one, has to be an attorney furnishing advice to his client, theyre going through a review and a tiny percentage...

He lost his credibility on these issues. >> legal implications for president trump in this case? >> yeah, there is several, craig. it is an interesting set of questions. >> the filter team, the team that obtained the materials from the search executed by the fbi has to review all of those materials to make sure there is no attorney/client privilege. if it is privilege, it cannot go to the prosecution team. basically if mr. trump and mr. cohen are discussing a crime on that tape and tlas crihere ...

That message is that if he crosses them, they will continue their attacks on his character which he believes they have been doing quite frequently and they will say that he is lying. and my sources are telling me that cohen believes that, and heres a quote, the truth is not you or your clients friend. and thats directed to rudy guiliani. >> thats a significant development. how much trouble, laura coates, do you think the president could be if there is an unleashed michael cohen? >> i think signi...

That attorney-client privilege would result in millions of the documents seized being denied to the prosecutors. so they might have thought they were getting everything from cohen but according to cohens lawyer, millions of documents would be held back because they were privileged. that has not turned out to be the way it has gone. what this new report says is that there are about 22,000 dpomts are still going through some layer of review, and she the special master, will decide whether they are...