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Extraordinary measure of breaking attorney/client privilege. >> what would that have to do with the fire fraud or bank fraud, ryan? unless its some weird way money changed hands. i dont know. >> theres some missing link between what seemed like envelope pushing but common political acts and what this warrant, obviously, convinced a lot of smart people was evidence of a pretty serious crime. have to have probable cause to get this warrant signed off on. >> because -- >> we just dont have that ans...

Attorneys office, the -- >> well, he was -- >> the senate -- >> the senate, senators. >> im not talking about senators. >> you just -- >> hold on -- >> the intelligence community, the cia, all of them who -- >> everyone else, all deep state? >> the congress has every right to get into this and they should. >> what do you mean, by "this." because theyve investigated and it they decided to stop it, by the way. >> on the house side. >> right. >> if the democrats take the house, which i believe they...

You cannot understate how absolutely beyond the pale this raid on michael cohens office was. by the southern district of new york. when they absolutely frequentlyy trampled on the lawyer client privilege to bust into that office and take everything, savage, take everything. it was so unprecedented. did they try, for example, what 99% of the prosecutors do in this circumstance, a subpoena? was that considered too be nine, not punitive enough. you cannot say the seizure of all of this evidence fro...

Trumps cross hairs right know, as the president tries to contain the widening russian investigation. sources say the president is considering whether to fire rosenstein, and the white house says the president also believes he has the authority to fire the special counsel robert mueller. lets bring in our panel. we have april ryan, dana bash, and gloria borger. gloria, why target rosenstein right now? what is going on in the presidents thinking? >> well, first of all, its easier than targeting mu...

Everything including lawyer/client privilege information. a warrant does give them the authority to seize the information. the taint team which consists of fbi agents reads it off and if they read something thats lawyer/client privilege they say that cant go to the proper to use. imagine if what they were reading was not lawyer/client privilege but medical privilege or confessional privilege or spousal privilege, none of us would accept the fact that fbi agents should be reading our most intimat...

Campaign finance laws that perhaps could be what they are looking at here. remember everyone keeps saying follow the money and follow the money and this seems to be about money and whether money was used to try and suppress any of this information. and remember, it is the public corruption folks that the fbi and the new york field office that are looking at this. which is what they do. this is exactly what they look at. >> and weve been told that -- there wasnt a subpoena for this information. t...

Other president has done. you have to give him so much credit. we got a lot of commentary on your appearance last night. youve taken it a step further that the raid of the residence private attorney and his office at home and he was staying in a hotel i guess because of construction, that you say it violated a constitutional right. >> you can just go and sweep up all lawyer-client privileged information and give it over to some fbi agent or a low ranking u.s. attorney and say go through it. the ...

With crimes or evidence or alleged crimes. >> the question is the violation of lawyer client privilege. >> justified and criminal procedure dictates shouldnt have been a lesser intrusive manner and many people had to approve this. the attorney-client privilege document will be preserved by a third-party team, people dedicated to and neutral in preserving that because if theres a tainting of that, that can render it inadmissible in

After unleashing a blistering attack. >> an attack on our country in a true sense, an attack on what we all stand for. why dont i justifier mueller? i think it is a disgrace whats going on, well see what happens. >> reporter: and tweeting a total witch-hunt and attorney/client privilege is dead. bipartisan calls for mueller to stay in place. >> i am confident this president wont do that. >> one simple message. dont even think about it. >> reporter: does the president have legal authority to fire...

>> thats called the crime fraud exception. if an attorney and a client are planning or covering up a crime together, that is not privilege, but a judge has to be persuaded that thats what theyre doing. >> all right. i want to bring in the rest of the panel in a moment. we got to get the non lawyers on the panel on this. also other subjects including one item that broke moments ago in "the new york times" about a transaction that robert mueller is investigating. $150,000 from a ukrainian magnate ...