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Who works for us in effect. >> uh-huh. to the point of that, very important dliniation, and jack you know all about this as white house counsel. the white house counsel is not the presidents private lawyer. the white house counsel protects the office of the president. officers to you. just explain why executive privilege and attorney/client privilege are important distinctions here? >> well, this is really not a matter of attorney/client privilege for the reason that paul largely outlined. don m...

Could have got that out without contradicting the attack on robert mueller. >> he handed that olive branch to the prosecutors. he does not agree with the idea of the term witch hunt we heard donald trump talking about. he talked about how the fbi agents that went in and raided his home and his office were very respectful. just by hearing his tone and his words, you have to be led to believe that he is willing to make a deal and perhaps that deal could be something that is substantial. >> if that...

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Is attorney/client privilege here. the president has not hired digenova. he is not really the presidents attorney. he just place him on television. and this is another incredibly squirrely aspect of what has been the most unusual representation ive ever seen. >> we need one of those bulletin boards they have on "homeland" with carrie at the center of all the activity, without saying too much about last night. joyce vance, who we dont get to see in new york often enough, michael crowley who leave...

Little man or especially women even more, women like me mattered. that ends now. >> well, despite that dramatic scene playing out today, the main legal fight today was over materials seized by or from cohen, rather. cohens under criminal investigation by the u.s. attorneys office. according to cohens filing, more than a dozen electronic devices were taken by federal authorities. a dozen. well, late last night, president trumps own lawyer also asked the court to temporarily block prosecutors from...

Idea this was happening, then we have no reason to believe that the stormy daniels -- >> wait, so any communication between the president and michael cohen, thats not all covered by privilege? >> no. every communication is not covered by privilege, right? >> every time i talk to my attorney, thats not covered by -- >> maybe. >> depends about what. >> exactly. >> if you talk about, you know, lunch, its not privilege. it has to be about the legal matter that is under consideration. >> so if -- by ...

Equivalent, who talks about and treats women like theyre pieces of meat, that persons not fit to be president of the united states on moral grounds. >> mission accomplished? the president celebrates what he calls a perfectly executed missile strike in syria. but u.n. chief nikki haley says it is not over, warning russia new sanctions are imminent. >> our goal was to send a very strong message to assad and his friends that we are not going to watch them continue to use chemical weapons on their p...

That? >> are you doing -- >> yeah, im confused about this because if i had a personal attorney or a fixer and someone was trying to put something damaging out on me, ryan, i would say, try to stop it. >> there is a missing link here between what on the surface looked like, you know, maybe pushing the envelope, but arguably, what political fixers do for political candidates when they are in a pickle. try and make negative stories go away. theres a missing link between those acts that we know that...

Accomplished tweeting the syrian raid was so perfectly carried out with such precision that the only way the fake news media could demean was by the use of mission accomplished. i felt it was such a great military term and should be brought back and use often. member of the senate intelligence committee. thanks for joining us. the president says its mission accomplished in syria. do you agree? is it mission accomplished in syria? what is the mission? >> the second question sort of answered the f...

Tomorrow. the allegation by the government is that he actually was not acting most of the time as an attorney, and that he had no other clients other than trump. >> yeah. >> so the question is if he was acting as an attorney they be the privilege hopefully will still be there, but for the materials that are not covered by attorney/client privilege, those will then be ostensibly given to the government. >> a chance to respond to that question, particularly with the charge if hes hiding criminal a...