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Lets bring in our analysts and our specialists and joey jackson. youre our legal analyst. the president in court ma-- howo you think this might unfold? >> it will unfold in a massive fight. in order for our institutions to work, they have to be fair and what everyone needs to understand is that like politics, a courtroom is very polarized. you have your democrat and republican, so to speak and prosecutor and you have your defense and unless and until both sides can come together which they wont,...

Appear in court today. it would be awkward than previously anticipated. that is because the adult film star that cohen paid to silence the story is slated to appear. stormy daniels attorney says this has nothing to do with provoking michael cohen. >> this is a serious matter for her. she wants to make sure that the american people know that she is behind efforts to bring to light as much information and documents as possible. she also wants to ensure that she is heard and represented at the hear...

He sent an e-mail saying hey what should i do about a, b, c, or d and cohen would have responded. and the contain team would have looked at that and said well this is clearly privileged communications and it doesnt have anything to do with our investigation and would have returned that to cohen. instead now, because of this allout ballots to get the court to either appoint a special master or allow cohens team is make that first review, which is not a likely outcome. now at what cost? they revea...

Have given him $10 at some point to help secure attorney/client privilege. the concern according to cohens lawyers is that it would be embarrassing to "hannity" but hannity pushing back on social media insisting there was infer any payment made. sawn hannity insisting that is not the case with him. >> mimi, we dont yet know if the judge is going to rule on appointing a special master to go over this information. as opposed to just allowing a filter team -- im not going to use the word taint team...

Material, all of it, and decide for themselves what is attorney/client privilege. is there precedent for that? >> absolutely not. and it sound like judge wood has essentially rejected that notion. i know it sounds like there are open issues and details we dont know about her ruling. she left open the possibility of the special master. but it sounds like she has pretty much ruled out the possibly that these are going to go over to the target of the investigation first to look at before the govern...

Cohen. thats the only reason his attorneys provided as far as why they wanted to either file that under a seal, they asked for the judges assurance. an attorney for media companies stood up and protested whether or not this name should be filed under seal saying there was no legal purpose for it. thats what the judge said, there was no legal reasoning she found why this name shouldnt be made public. thats the reason she ordered it to be disclosed right there on the spot. and cohens attorneys had...

Today planning to march on the state capital in denver to push for more school funding and better pay. please remember that. its not just about their pay, its about funding. giving kids the resources they need. and president trumps personal lawyer michael cohen will be in court today at his own request in an effort to stop prosecutors from reviewing files seized in last weeks raid. cohen has asked a federal judge to allow president trump to go through and determine which documents can be withh...

That the mueller team found that they basically handed off, this hot potato to the southern district of new york, so that now its being handled not by muellers team, but by the regular old fbi and justice department, u.s. attorney in new york. now whether they are going to get and feed it back to mueller, i think we just dont know the answer to that. >> clint watts, michael cohen is going to be back in court tomorrow to try and prevent some of this evidence from seeing the light of day to essent...

And i think that what were really seeing here, with the president saying attorney/client privilege is dead, first of all, don sqr is most freaked out because he claimed attorney general/client privilege, saying he cant talk about what he said -- >> don jr. is an attorney? >> apparently. >> because don jr. went to law school -- >> i think don jr. put his hand on a rock and said "i am an attorney." >> sure. >> but the judge, she is very well respected throughout the legal community. i think she wi...

>> president trumps lawyers went on court to try to prevent any material seized by investigators from being read. the u.s. attorneys office responded saying cohen has few clients and low volume of potentially privileged communications. doesnt michael cohen have some sort of standing to make this claim of attorney, client privilege. >> if it is shown that the communications were not in furtherance of providing true legal advice they will blow a hole big enough to drive a mac truck through. the fa...