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Wants cohens team to wrap up their review of that to assert whether or not some of those items have attorney/client privilege get that to the special master to referee that has been pointed out here to meter out what should and should not go to prosecutors. i think what you are going to see is some sort of a wrap up of this review that we have been talking about now for months sometime toward the middle to likely the end of june. >> let me ask you the michael avenatti question, which is obviousl...

>> laura coates, if you read this testimony with donald trump jr. basically saying my father communicated through hope hicks on this, you know that special counsel robert mueller is going to be asking hope hicks about this and hope hicks faced questions about this from the committee as well. >> what i heard, when youre reading the actual transcript are two things, i heard somebody who was trying to hedge under two concepts, plausible deniability that if there is someone who is one removed from t...

Sara, rudy giuliani also said that he did no work for the president. so what does that mean for attorney-client privilege? >> well, look, its hard to say at this point what that means for attorney/client privilege in term of michael cohen i think youre referring to there. we know michael cohen did work for the president. we obviously know giulianis now working for the president, they have attorney-client privilege. i think this is going to create a lot of hurdles potentially in the lawsuit sara ...

The conversations he had that would have been pursuant and fallen under the scope of a criminal investigation. that investigation, of course, spun off of muellers. mueller asked the southern district of new york to look at cohen because they found evidence of criminal wrongdoing outside of muellers scope. what we also know is that there was a phone call between one of cohens lines and the white house. it is not at all clear that actually was a call from the president, himself, but its obvious th...

Attorney/client privilege. at the least theyre possible campaign finance violations here and the records themselves are an indelible source of proof. >> before we let you go, theres great news coming out of north korea yesterday, sources saying the release of three americans may be imminent. do you have information on that? the president teased out, he said stay tuned. do you know anything else about it? >> i have no hard information. were encouraged and hopeful that this apparent breakthrough m...

When you investigate attorneys, you go -- >> its privileged. >> because of attorney/client privilege, you go up to a higher standard where youre trying to look, was there any other means we can get this evidence that makes it the least likely im going to stumble into attorney/client privilege. based on analysis they decided to execute warrants. they did historical warrants on e-mail. if the reports are true for the wiretap that required not just a proval at the field office in the southern distr...

Fear that michael cohen may be indicted or charged? >> correct. the judge agreed with something that ive been saying, which is that it appears there are very serious charges on the horizon for michael cohen based on the evidence thats been presented thus far. and the court came to that conclusion and decided that the more prudent course of action was to delay the case 90 days. so, thats where that case stands. the case we have today, we just filed it, so the president will have to file a respons...

Told us that he understood that cohen was feeling neglected by trump and he purposely had this meal with him to get the presidents attention. >> its a fascinating article. michael, thank you. >> digging deep into all the tangled up threads, more of my conversation with two distinguished attorneys, alan dershowitz, author of "trumped up" and norm eisen, former obama white house ethics czar and former ambassador to the czech republic. >> ambassador eisen, the president did not do his former attorn...

Up" and norm eisen, former obama white house ethics czar and former ambassador to the czech republic. >> ambassador eisen, the president did not do his former attorney or current attorney, possible friend or frenemy any favors. he backed away from cohen saying, well, most of what he does is business. i dont know anything about his business. michael cohen has made the argument that a lot of this stuff that was taken from his office is because of attorney/client privilege. the president is saying ...

With george w. bush no suggested they were illegal leaks that is the case. that comey was out of office and was no more of a leak are than george or mc clelen nobody suggested they were illegal leakers or liar. >> last week they kept the memos they were state secrets. new could see. have to have a fbi minder with them. no notes or copies lauren lauren controversy to justice -- no one believed this was the only leak he did. my guess there were tons. status had the clearance and coming to the fbi ...