$130,000 for their clients. so in many ways, michael cohen is not acting as a lawyer here, he is really acting as a member of the organization and where that falls when it comes to attorney-client privilege, i don t know yet. but there are real issues of what was actually going on in these communications and what role michael cohen was and the attorney said this isn t necessary because michael cohen was cooperating with house and senate committees, fully cooperating with other government entities and including providing he said, thousands of nonprivileged documents to the congress and sitting for depositions under oath. right. and i think we have to remember that michael cohen is not just any lawyer. this is not just an attorney-client privilege or relationship and he was close and involved with the trump organization. he we ve seen communications that have been produced part of the investigation showing he was involved in pitching this trump
forensic analysis on e-mail or text messages or phone calls to determine what the nature of the conversations were or are. and if there are any type of fraudulent activities in there, it extends well beyond michael cohen, it extends to the president himself. so this is a very significant development, wolf. and if they are investigating the u.s. attorney based on the referral from the special counsel and the $130,000 payment, the hush money payment from michael cohen to stormy daniels, they re investigating whether that was legal under the law. i assume they re looking into potentially a campaign finance violation. yes. i i believe that they re are potential campaign finance violations they could look at. and i would add to joey s point which is important, what is and isn t protected depend on what role michael cohen was playing. this is an unusual situation and i don t need to remind everyone watching, but lawyers do not pay