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He can assert or he can waive his attorney/client privilege. if hes innocent, why doesnt he wave the privilege and let all the documents go forward. it isnt michael cohens privilege, its the clients privilege. the client doesnt get to decide which documents are privileged. the prosecutors or the special master can do that. not the president.

The civil case, it is inevitable that he has to do that. i would say that its not a fear about stormy daniels. and its not even possibly a fear about how many stormy daniels payments there are because i would predict that theres more than the two that we know about for hush money. but that its probably related to business transactions that skirt account line. there were probably payments that might be considered bribes. charges facing cohen are far beyond just hush money payments and that are fa...

Dealers choice on which aspects of this you want to speak to and, senator, your view of what appear to be a lot of developments on the trump side of the ledger in this investigation right now tonight. >> well, this "the washington post" report assuming its true is extraordinary because it shows that the president is becoming even more entangled and embroidered in the cohen aspect of this investigation. it has been thought that it was separate, but obviously the president has been deeply concerne...

Involved in. >> and thats where a lot of the questions go and why the president is unlike any other client. if youre joining the beat we have been covering over half an hour straight of breaking news with rudy giuliani meeting with bob mueller promising a presidential interview saying he will plead the fifth on the grounds he might incriminate himself in the stormy daniels as well as the news breaking here that president trump says he will personally get involved in the michael cohen case by rev...

Michael cohen has reason to flip, to become the prosecuters witness? >> yeah. i want to divide that into two things. number one, i dont think theres any fear of michael cohen flipping. i think his loyalty is proven. i think hes going to stay loyal to the president. is there a reason for the president to be concerned? absolutely. the fact, the quantity of the tweets. >> why? if he didnt do anything wrong or if theres nothing to be concerned of, when why would he be so concerned? >> thats a good q...

That he has this kind of relationship with someone who hes talking about in a news story night after night after night, and if they had only minor interactions and there was nothing there, all the more reason to put that out there right away so when it comes out later you dont look like you were hiding something, which i suspect he is hiding. >> also i dont know -- i like sean, i worked with him for a long time, so im not, you know, trying to pile on here. >> this is not personal, we all know se...

Were hiding something, which i suspect he is hiding. >> also i dont know -- i like sean, i worked with him for a long time, so im not, you know, trying to pile on here. >> this is not personal, we all know sean. >> but i think if youre going to assert some sort of attorney/client privilege, you cant have it both ways. either you had a very casual conversation with somebody and get it out in the open, or you did something thats an actual transactional relationship. >> very simple. all you have to...

Or perhaps already today. it sounded like this was an administration decision. and now it appears -- and it may be -- the president may confirm it today and all of this can go away, but it is surprising. it underlines a problem of consistency and predictability. i think thats one of the most important things. and frankly credibility. you know, if the white house or the administration makes a statement, we are going to do x and then it doesnt happen, that raises questions about what do we -- how ...

And take things. it suggests an aggression that is used to imply that this was somehow wrong or motivated by animus thats why i dont say it. let talk about something where i think you will not agree. james comey is part of the rational for his actions and justification for the same to npr in a new interview said this, comey asserted that the reputation of his agency which operates under near daily sieged from the president and his allies would be worse today had we not picked the least bad alter...

They saw something that was troubling enough to refer it to the southern district of new york. okay? that doesnt just happen because for fun. thats not just a phishing expedition. you have to prove you saw some some of illegality to make that referral. thats what were in the middle of. we dont know the answers to that. >> we dont know the answer. >> but things -- but seedy things have cropped up. i guess in terms of sean hannity, here is why i ask. because there are rules that journalists are su...