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But to advance the ball to pick whether its going to be a special master, or this privilege team or taint team as its called. >> lets trial to call it a privilege team, or a filter team. >> it will either be the privilege team or the filter team that theyll use, or a special master. so well find out this week or early next week. but it doesnt mean that the investigation completely stops because they have been monitoring michael cohens emails leading up to the search warrant coming in. so i thatl...

Seized documents. so you have this group of documents that both michael cohen and donald trump say hey, wait a minute, before you look at those, some of those are attorney client privileged documents. now, the normal procedure for the government, for u.s. attorneys is to have whats called a filter team. these are u.s. attorneys and agents that are separate from the underlying investigation. they eyeball the document, they say is this privileged? yeah, maybe, im pretty sure this is privilege and ...

This is a serious matter when attorney/client material is handed to the department of justice and they make the determination of whats privileged. and in answer to your first question, i think it would have been much better to be able to have done what cohens lawyers asked for, that is to give the third name to the court under seal. i dont understand why courts dont do that more often. the court could have looked at that and said im going to give these names to the filter team or the magistrate,...

Possibility of appointing an independent lawyer to review materials seized from cohen in last weeks raid. let me start with tom first. explain the significance here. basically michael cohens team was saying we have documents that the fbi took in this raid that we think are protected under attorney/client privilege and we dont want everybody seeing them. when will we know whether theres going to be an independent person looking at this or not? >> its a great question. its going to take a little b...

Independent investigators known as the filter team through the fbi and the stmy, or the taint team would be responsible for doing the separating, withholding any protected documents forever being used in the case. but this a remarkable letter to the judge last night, the presidents own lawyer asked the judge to suspend the governments usual review process, making investigators instead hand all the seized documents over to none other than michael cohen so cohen and the president could decide what...

Arguing that this was going to be embarrassing for sean hannity over any privileges because the judge kept saying, you have no standing on privilege with this and then -- really in a stunning fashion, wolf, she ordered the name released. >> who will eventually decide whether this is privileged and should be kept secret or whether all of the information should be released publicly? would that be the federal judge kimball wood? >> reporter: well the next step is once michael cohens attorneys are d...

Safeguard the presidents sacred right to attorney/client privilege. the u.s. attorneys office has a plan in place to avoid conflict by using a filter team in which prosecutors not involved in the case would review the materials first. thats a practice often used in criminal cases against lawyers which the presidents legal team has called plainly inadequate. cohen is under criminal investigation by the department of justice for what investigators call personal business dealings. largely surroundi...

What is established practice and allow the government to use their taint team, their filter team, to do all the review of the documents, the first pass, and then go to the judge with any close calls. >> again, we continue to watch stormy daniels there inside the courthouse. her attorney is there inside the courthouse, as well. again, this hearing is set to get started at 2:00 p.m. here on the east coast. you can see the reporters who have been camped outside this federal courthouse for hours now...

Happened in court today but it sound like the judge is asking the government to do that we call rolling discovery. usually discovery you tornado over evidence in your case after charges are filed but hear given the privilege issues it sounds like shes saying the government should give over some of those materials starting now. it doesnt mean that this that they get to look at it first, meaning the president or mr. coc cohen. it doesnt mean anyone is going to look at it yet. it means she is going...

Have given him $10 at some point to help secure attorney/client privilege. the concern according to cohens lawyers is that it would be embarrassing to "hannity" but hannity pushing back on social media insisting there was infer any payment made. sawn hannity insisting that is not the case with him. >> mimi, we dont yet know if the judge is going to rule on appointing a special master to go over this information. as opposed to just allowing a filter team -- im not going to use the word taint team...