at the time, not just after the fact$ts explanations. i also want to go to you on something else real quick, even though i just handed you my phone. i to want to talk to you about what abc news is reporting now. we re talking about abc news reporting this morning that source is saying the special counsel claims trump deliberately misled his attorneys about those documents and, quote, in her sealed filing ordered that evan corcoran, attorney for trump should comply with a grand jury for testimony on six separate lines of inquiry over which he had previously asserted attorney/client privilege. what do you make of this development? oh, if defense attorneys had a nickel for every time the clients mislead them. it happens all the time, and it threatens the attorney/client relationship. arguably, in some situations, an attorney must withdraw if the
back. what s going to happen today is the exercise of donald trump s rights, they re very broad under new york law, unusually so, that s why donald trump himself was invited to the grand jury, but instead he s sending in a proxy in the form of attorney robert costello. now, remember, mr. costello represented michael cohen and he was criticized in the report of special counsel robert mueller for what to me tip toed up to the line of witness tampering. at one point telling michael cohen he has powerful friends, obviously referring to the president, and he should sleep well tonight before he cooperated. trump and trump world turned on cohen of course when he did cooperate. costello s lawyer relationship ended with cohen, now costello is going to come in and share information from that attorney/client relationship, apparently saying that cohen was
if you re being honest, the process is skewed in the proceeding in favor of the prosecution because defense doesn t get up there and is not cross-examining witnesses but to asha s point, you know, the corroboration that s objective, that s not michael cohen or kellyanne conway or others that appeared but the documents and the theory is the falsification of record, the payments to reimburse michael cohen was booked as legal fees but there were no legal services provided. that s black and white. there s no retainer agreement. if you look at the actual physical documents and this goes to susanne s point as well there will be a paper trail that can implicate people along the way including donald trump. costello is not so much the defense for trump but pore to go after michael cohen and it s that relationship between costello and michael that s important. michael says there was zero attorney/client relationship. he was never being represented but in 2019 he waived
were accepting what they knew to be dirty drug money as payment. there are times when we have to go out and get those lawyers. it s highly unusual because we don t like to interfere with the sanctity of the attorney client relationship unless donald trump is using his lawyers in furtherance of his own criminal scheme. that is one of the issues being litigated right now with respect to whether his attorney evan corcoran can invoke an attorney client privilege or whether that privilege should be pierced, whether it falls because he may have been complicit in the crimes of donald trump. you got in the walls closing in on many different avenues. you know special counsel jack smith when it comes to january 6th. we have to talk about the overhanging subpoena former vice president mike pence, how that s all going to go down. we know the argument that
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