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Procedure, allan, in new york of having a filter team, theyre following it under court supervision, we need to let that play out and it is connected, anna, because we have just seen media reports, they may or may not be true, for example, that michael cohen was in prague. as you know, one of the big issues and the question of whether the trump campaign through cohen and russia colluded was a supposed prague meeting. cohens always denied it. >> he hasnt -- >> if there are possible connections tha...

His residence is somehow breeching that. >> there is a very detailed protocall when you want to search an attorneys office because of the attorney-client privilege is so well respected and so carefully guarded, but the attorney-client privilege cant be used as a shield to hide illegal activity. you can search an attorneys office, but only if you go through very specific and stringent requirements. have to get approval from warrant and probable cause and permission from a judge. you have to get a...

His residence is somehow breeching that. >> there is a very detailed protocall when you want to search an attorneys office because of the attorney-client privilege is so well respected and so carefully guarded, but the attorney-client privilege cant be used as a shield to hide illegal activity. you can search an attorneys office, but only if you go through very specific and stringent requirements. have to get approval from warrant and probable cause and permission from a judge. you have to get a...

This? >> no, i never have. and usually when someone is newly charged and is negotiating for the conditions of bond conditions, theyre incredibly humble andy on their best behavior. if these allegations are true, theyre really astonishing that paul manafort was ghost writing an op-ed in violation of the gag order a judge has issued in this case. no, ive never seen anything like it. >> how do you think muellers investigators would come to know something like that which they themselves allege in co...

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 whats okay to use. think about that ...

To be challenging a search warrant, it will be after youve been criminally charged and you file pretrial motions that allow for all sorts of constitutional challenges or other challenges to the case. so they were taoeubl get the judges attention, which is pretty impressive in terms of finding the show cause motion. whether theyre going to succeed in creating a new process for the review of potentially privileged materials i think is unlikely. >> dana: can you walk us through this issue of the fi...

The clients, who have conversations about what might or might not be protectable. >> there was also reporting today that said that federal investigators said that michael cohen doesnt do that much legal work, that he has a handful of clients, only three of them could be considered clients in a lawyerly capacity. and that, all told, he has been acting more as something else -- as an advisor, maybe, but not necessarily as a lawyer. does that make it easier for the judge to say, hey, listen, this i...

Their own team to review these documents for privilege and then give them back to the government. not likely to happen given that the very reason they got a search warrant was because they probably didnt trust cohen and trump to review these documents. on the other hand, the government wanted their filter team, their own attorneys to review the documents for privilege. so in a sense, the judge found middle ground in appointing a special master who is a neutral third party. you could call this a ...

Name, theres a much greater chance that the filter team will recover and review materials that might have otherwise been privileged. little against his interest not to identify the person, but i imagine hes got some sort of good reason. >> dana: last question, we dont have that much time, but i did want to ask you, everyones talking about james comeys book. hes also a potential witness in the mueller investigation. do you think from your experience that james comey might have tampered his own wi...

Couple of names for a general master, think of a referee, somebody toe oversee the privileged documents to give to the government what theyre entitled to under the search warrant or not. so she wants some names for somebody who could do that. she also keeps open this idea, and she said something i think is really important, chris. she said the u.s. attorneys office is unimpeachable in their integrity and what they bring to the table as far as their ability to conduct an investigation using their...