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Could be regarded by trump forces rightly so that this crosses the line of attorney/client privilege. >> secretary panetta, you heard president trumps reaction to all this tonight. do you believe hes ready to fire special counsel mueller or jeff sessions or rod rosenstein or, you know, some combination of all of the above? and if so, would that lead to a constitutional crisis? >> my recommendation to the white house would be before you take any precipitous action, you better find out just exactl...

>> well, its hard to know how big a problem its going to be to the white house. the presidents fury at this which seemed to be escalated way above what he said in other tweets in the past, does suggest this, indeed, could be a prelude to the president firing mueller if theres any connection at all or at least going after the fbi and maybe rosenstein or, you know, some other officials there. so i think were on -- were in pretty treacherous territory here. but the issue is i -- unprecedented, to m...

Theres a united states attorneys manual that the entire department of justice follows whether youre a main justice or local attorneys office and theres a special section on what happens when youre trying to get information, how you approach lawyers. it is incredibly sensitive because much of the communication is privileged. i want to say one thing on that, its an important thing for us to think about, communications are only privileged when youre requesting or receiving legal advice. it if there...

Consideration. >> so if -- by what youre saying is if the president has already claimed he wasnt part of this, -- >> then its hard for us to see any way in which the stormy daniels agreement -- if thats true and is the case. now, lets say there are e-mails that the president is on, although i understand the president doesnt e-mail and so that may not be the case but at this point if we take the presidents word that he had no communications about it, theres no reason for us to believe he -- he wa...

>> have the judge go through it and have the judge make a determination as to whether there is anything in there that is lawyer client privilege. >> sean: at this point though, i dont see how the president and his team could cooperate. >> its hard. its hard. think are not getting anything in return. cooperation has to be a two-way street. now, the problem, of course, for the president, is that mueller ultimately holds the card in which he can subpoena the president, call him in front of a grand ...

To another fbi agent and say you are the firewall, we want you now to read all these confidential communications. if this were hillary clinton being investigated and they went into her lawyers office. the aclu would be on every television station in america jumping up and down the deafening silence of the aclu and civil libertarians about the intrusion into the lawyer/client confidentiality is really appalling. steve: see, that is such a good point. and he was talking about agents being the fire...

Witch hunt constantly going on for over 12 months now and actually much more than that. you could say it was right after i won the nomination it started. and it is a disgrace. it is a real disgrace. >> bill: that was just part of it. john roberts leads us off today and john, good morning. he made it clear last night how he felt. how is it this morning? >> he was livid last night and still upset this morning about the raid on michael cohens two offices, one in the trump organization, the other in...

>> listen, we heard from sarah side ner who spoke with keith davidson, the broker of the hush deals between stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. what stood out to you in the interview. >> that michael cohen once again seems to have skipped a day of law school, the day where they said what attorney client privilege means. the fact that he reached out to this lawyer and suggested this lawyer go on national tv and media and spill his guts about everything he learned from his clients because somehow h...

Said what attorney client privilege means. the fact that he reached out to this lawyer and suggested this lawyer go on national tv and media and spill his guts about everything he learned from his clients because somehow he claims his clients broke the attorney client privilege when they went public with stories. one has absolutely nothing to do with the other. fortunately, davidson went and got advice from an ethics lawyers lawyer which clearly cohen is not and was told thats ridiculous. you do...

Hidden arbitration behind closed doors designed to protect people. >> look, we can have a debate about arbitration, but she did sign that contract. >> she signed the contract with the expectation that everyone was going to sign the contract and that was going to be the deal. that turned out not to be the deal. >> she had a different lawyer at that time, as you know, who said he would like to tell what his version of these events are. will she grant him that permission to do so? >> that is an unu...