the it is for the purpose of seeking legal advice. things within that, they will look at and if there are things under the crime/fraud exception, they can take it to a judge and get an order and be shared with the prosecution team. there s another matter and that s executive privilege. that s different and it is what steve bannon is saying the president should assert with respect to anybody around the president and there are many who has been interviewed by robert mueller team. there s a long ball in sports term. a real risk. the lawyer showed no sign that he wants to listen to bannon and calling on him to be fired in the interview and before cob declined to comment. you are seeing most legal experts are dubious. there is no way to retroactively
general or the assistant attorney general and then the southern district of new york. if you come to those organizations or units with flimsy evidence, he said, she said type of evidence, you re not getting that application approved. you have to have typically documents, e-mails, text messages, something showing very high level of evidence to dig into what is almost sacrosanct, the attorney-client privilege. there are exceptions like the fraud exception that we re hearing about. this came up after the raid of paul manafort s house. why not first request this information? why go in with a raid? search warrants are sought and obtained because there is some fear that the evidence may be destroyed. or that the target of the search warrant isn t being forth coming in the voluntary requests. what i as a prosecutor, when i was a prosecutor, when i m asking for documents and say i want communications relating to x, y and z, there could be some
anything else that could have to do with him. but the problem for donald trump is this. even though there s a privilege tha that exists between an attorney and client that could protect communications, correspondents, at this point in time, a crime fraud exception aplies. mean iing if mueller hauls in michael krrk ohen and asks him to talk about certain communications and because there s this fraud exception, he may be forced to disclose his communications, so that is the worst case scenario for trump. it s already happening and he s not going to be able to stop mueller! in order, if the attorney in the case is a target himself of the investigation. cohen is a target. basically, so you have this privilege, attorney client privilege, but if there s the assistance of a crime, you can t hide behind the privilege as the lawyer or client. so as a result of that, there s going to be a serious problem for cohen, so that s why trump is denying everything.
that ll do a lot. eventually they can impeach, which i think they will. they don t have more power. thank you! do you know, they actually have a little jail cell in the bottom of congress, where they leave people for about ten minutes. manafort s facing potential life in prison. that s power. and that s the power you have in criminal prosecution. because he did the crime well before he was ever associated with trump. now you re talking about a different question. when was the crime committed? and you know something? this search warrant that was executed kind of indicates that now they re expanding to look at other crimes. in fact, rick gates, some of the conversations he had was when he was with the campaign. rate. or it indicates, paul, and i think this is important, that mueller, because he could find nothing on russia, has decided that i m going to go into all of trump s life and try to find anything i can. and first we thought it was stormy daniels. and if it s no
would be othey will looeotthelo. i don t think the president would do himself any favors by testifying because of his loose association with the truth. but at the same time, we have this story going against rosenstein, there is a coordinated effort by many in the gop to also go after sessions and the way he is also overseeing this and not being more of a check and balance for the president and reining mueller in. we re seeing a lot of gop members go out there and attack him. here s my problem with that. from the standpoint that the president says he s innocent, there s two people that could prove his innocence more than anything. it s mueller and rosenstein. and he would be best served to not call this a witch hunt, to cooperate in any way in providing information, sit back and be quiet and let the facts lead to his exoneration. steve, you say go with steve bannon on this? i m thoroughly with bannon on this. this is look, the point bannon is making, this is no longer about a crim