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To the president of the united states, tom? >> it makes a huge difference because there is the attorney/client privilege issue that you have here. so you have to find a way to filter these conversations. the federal government has already said in public court filings they had a filter team set up for the e-mail communications. presumably they had a filter team set up here. you have a team thats not associated with the investigation thats listening to these calls saying, okay, this is clear attor...

Relationship with donald trump. is it going to be hard? >> its going to be hard, but its not a minefield. by the way the minefield analogy is useful. because with the right equipment, as you well know, you can navigate a minefield. so imagine in a search warrant, they get three types of stuff. one bucket would mr. stuff that is absolutely not privileged, which the filter team can give to the investigative team. one bucket of stuff is things that are clearly privileged, which the filter team woul...

Able to provide cohen and his lawyers that the materials that the fbi agents seized from him during its searches last week. they say both sides are asking for a court date of may 25th. that is when the judge in the case could decide who would review those documents to decide what investigators can look at. the two options a group of prosecutors known as a filter team, which the government prefers, or one person, a so-called special master, which michael cohen is asking for. today the government ...

Sometimes this get muddled and people wonder who won or who lost. i think this is ultimately a lost for cohen but a special master is an attorney who would go through the documents and figure out which ones are privileged or not and that person would make the determination as opposed to government lawyers that are called a filter team separate from the lawyers in the investigative team. the real difference is the person going through it wouldnt be affiliated with the government. the only down si...

A copy of everything the government has. and the government said we will not start locking at the documents notteen our fit are team. and three the judge why said, i may appoint a special master. she will not do what the president and coen wanted which was to let them. decide what is privilege or not. like with a subpoena. not a ruling for the president or coen. really striking with theus attorneys office is doing here. if you rook atus attorneys manual in the section that talks about searching ...

Are right, she said, first of all, cohen gets a copy of everything that the government has. that is number one. number two, the government said, we want to start looking at the documents. not even our filter team. number three, the judge has said, i may still appoint a special master. shes not going to do with the president and cohen wanted, which was to let them decide what is privileged and what is not, like you would do if you got a subpoena. but is not necessarily a terrible ruling for the...

Through the documents, either a filter team, which the government wants here, or a special master, or a judicial officer. it is right here in the u.s. attorneys manual but the government doesnt want to do it, the special master, doesnt want to do a judicial officer. by god, in the case of lynne stewart, the attorney who was convicted of aiding and abetting a terrorist, even she got a special master but the president of the united states doesnt get one. so i think it is really striking. and i agr...

This. they have access, and will continue to file motions. even if the judge were to say now, im going to go back to the usual process and let the government go through their filter team and decide whats privileged and whats not. cohens team has the documents and they will be peppering the judge. it will be very difficult for any judge to disregard an application that something is printed without weighing in on it. its both going to delay the process significantly and i think ultimately, this wa...

That the filter team will review things, pick out the things they dont agree with. then they will consult and say this is what we think is not privilege and can go over the wall. if they agree, great. if they dont, someone has to decide that and that very likely sounds like that is the way it is going. >> so you say the judge picks a special master. >> so in this case, she looked for each side, cohens lawyers and the government to submit for names each. she will try to pick someone that is a ret...

Trump is the person involved with all this, she denied that too. right now, judge is considering two options. either using a filter team, which is a special group of outside prosecutors, or appointing whats known as a special master to look through the documents first and sort out what is relevant and what is privileged. for now, both sides will be allowed to access the evidence. but cannot review it. so thats the substance, but there was a very big surprise as well. that is when the judge force...