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That these recordings, since no one knows what they are, is something that will be in the hands of the fbi. and thats really going to be the focus of this court hearing today. >> all right, kara, thank you very much. terrific information there. lets try to understand it some more. joining me is kendall coffey, thank you for being with us. on the subject of the tapes, a couple of questions. if they exist, number one, wow. and number two, a guarantee they would be admissible or useable in an inves...

To put some restrictions or some system to have the materials reviewed and have judicial determinations made about privilege issue rather than let the fbi look at everything. of course theres a separate team thats supposed to be separate from the team going through these documents. but most of those in michael cohens position are not only extremely worried, but they dont trust the idea that a taint team is going to make an accurate determination about attorney/client privilege issues. >> michael...

Is hell have a lot less success in front of bob mueller than hell have had on the hill. >> tough question now. suppose steve bannon wants to tell the truth and the white house reaches outs to him and says you cant. whats to stop hip? what penalty would he face if he decided to tell it all? regardless of what the white house lawyers say about executive privilege. >> he wont face any penalty whatsoever in front of the grand jury. he can go in, he can testify, the rules of evidence have very limite...

Invoking something more broad. theres attorney/client, spousal, priest, but no father/son. >> if two people talking in front of a priest you cant claim -- >> no lot of times people plant a lawyer to give aura of privilege issue. parties and investigators have to work that out. but simply a person with law degree sitting at table while two other people have a conversation -- mobsters used to do it all the time. not saying theyre mobsters. but cc a lawyer or bring them to sit at meeting, that by i...

And sometimes its the case if theres a joint defense agreement between and among multiple people, for example, at a company, there is a privileged conversation between the lawyer and those other nonlawyers in connection with the provision of advice, i guess thats possible, but my understanding is he is invoking something far more broad than that. there theres no such thing as a father-son privilege. >> if two people are talking just in front of a priest, you cant claim -- >> no. there have been ...

President fire comey? why did he fire flynn? there are notes that officials have that talk about that reveal what the president was thinking. why the president was doing what he did. so what the white house has had to do, its had to go through its males, its notes, everything, to come up with documents to give to muller. there are questions whether there is privilege issue, whether the white house will hand over all these things, ty cobb the lawyer the president hired to hand him these things th...

Along with that political -- comes a mountain of understandable legal scrutiny. did comey break the law with his self-proclaimed leak and it did he reach privilege leaking a conversational conversation with the president? surely thats what lawyers will assert when he makes his complaint looking into this with the doj next week. lets look at this million dollar question. is comey leak a crime? first, when comey shared his memo, he was no longer a government employee. number two, the information w...

When i got my polygraph, i got hammered and went back to work. thats it. >> im asking you on a legal standpoint could the white house make the claim that its inappropriate for director comey to be discussing things he and the president talked about privately. >> there is a privilege issue. james comey is going to testify in public but he wouldnt testify in private to a senate committee? why? i want to follow that up with this question. why in the world, if we have a senate investigation, a house...

Think this is good case for the death penalty. jon: low iq has been a question in death penalty cases. >> yes. jon: this guy was a neuroscience major. >> youre right. >> allegedly planned this. by the way when he was arrested by the officers right after he said, dont go into my apartment. why? because it is booby-trapped. knowing somebody would be hurt even after he shot up 12 people. that to me says he knew right from wrong. that defeats a insanity defense. jon: our notebook that was found out ...

You have the privilege issue. i would bet they have not had prior discussions, james holmes, and the shrink. so the question, was it sent to the shrink for some kind of psychiatric help? that is the privilege. and who can say that these are the notes of james holmes? >>shepard: that will be easy. but i am curious of access. an argument will be made that the public has a right to see this. there was a time when there was only written word. and then still pictures. and now video. now you can strea...