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Violates attorney/client privilege. so that is one possibility. and then either of the reasons that you suggest is a possibility for why this portion of the investigation might be turned over to rod rosenstein and bob mueller in its entirety to the southern district of new york seems more probable to me that it would be turned over because of the resource restriction. mueller has limited team, they are obviously fully occupied, it would have been hard to stand up a taint team and maintain his pr...

Who preceded michael cohen as trumps key lawyer. i also spoke to goldberg late today. he tells me, hes not a former lawyer to trump. he says hes currently giving president trump legal advice on the russia probe. in fact, i was asking him about james comey and he told me he currently has attorney/client privilege with president trump. >> what about comey? >> no, i cant, because thats attorney/client privilege. right? he called me for advice. >> are you currently representing him? >> i havent been...

In the search warrant tonight? >> well, right. there are references to potential wire fraud and bank fraud. and we also know that the warrant included references to michael cohens business of taxi medallions. and so youd have to say that this warrant was extraordinary in many ways. first of all, its extraordinary to search a lawyers office and cohen is, of course, upset about this, because he believes he has attorney/client privilege. but also, its extraordinary because of the breadth of it. and...

Not actually the spirit of the law, is there any attorney/client privilege there? are you risking more by not being a formal lawyer to the president? >> counselor, your name has been invoked, you can rebut. >> they already have a conflict of interesting because his wife, victoria, represents mark corrala, who resigned because he was afraid he would be led into some sort of obstruction. and theres a question of when theres an issue of attorney/client privilege here. hes not officially his lawyer,...

Zerlina maxwell, now director of progressive programming for sirius xm, republican strategist and msnbc contributor steve schmidt. in washington, white house reporter for "the wall street journal" and msnbc analyst eli stokells and former obama deputy campaign adviser stephanie cutter is here. i think you and stephanie are the two attorneys at the table. can you first just address what donald trump jr. is sort of holding out as his rationale for not sharing with the committee the substance of hi...

Attack from their own president. thats also relatively unprecedented. but, you know, look, theyre professionals. they get up. they, you know, put on their boots and they go out to do their job. they try to, i think, ignore those sorts of things. they try to stay above the politics and just go about their business. >> and now for the lawyer in you, what do you make of this attorney/client privilege, and what should we -- is there something were not understanding about this? >> well, attorney/clie...

Affairs analyst. john, home team advantage. you go first. youre here with us in new york. what am i missing about donald trump, jr. claiming attorney/client privilege, which would work if you and i were each others lawyers. we would have a private conversation that no one else could get at. how does it work the way hes applying it? can you help me? >> well, he seems to be claiming because his attorney was in the room at the same time that he had the conversation with his father, that that conver...

Conversations he had with his dad, and the basis on which hes refusing, citing attorney/client privilege. again, neither of them is a lawyer, let alone a lawyer who has one of the other of them as a client. theyre just father and son, not lawyers. thats apparently what hes saying. >> good evening. we just concluded several hours of asking donald trump jr. questions about not only the meeting at trump tower but a range of other issues as well. he answered the overwhelming majority of our question...

Donald trump jr. is refusing to answer questions about conversations he had with his dad, and basis on which hes refusing, citing attorney/client privilege. again, neither of them is a lawyer, let alone a lawyer who has one of the other of them as a client. theyre just father and son, not lawyers. thats apparently what hes saying. >> good evening. we just concluded several hours of asking donald trump jr. questions about not only the meeting at trump tower but a range of other issues as well. he...

There were conversations between hope hicks and donald trump jr. and she was an intermediary, thats not privileged either. so i think the best thing to do is take this investigation as serious as it should be and bring these witnesses under a subpoena and well get the answers. >> congressman, stay with us. i want to bring in michael zelden and gloria gorger. michael, do you believe theres any legal claim to the claim of attorney/client privilege? >> none whatsoever. if there were any type of pri...