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Weinstein and hired this firm. many people will hire an intelligence firm through an attorney because i guess supposedly that has attorney/client privilege automatically. >> the theory is if the investigative material is >> the theory is, if its submitted through an attorney, it cant be submitted in court because of privilege issues. certainly, i hope after this, people take a hard look as to whether these kinds of activities should be able to be secret. >> so on the one hand, his firm is repres...

Be relevant to a pending criminal investigation. b, because there could be executive privilege issues, or other kinds of privilege issues. my understanding about these is that comey memorialized nearly every interaction he had with the president, whether it was a phone call or a meeting. and he did it shortly afterwards. and it was sort of a note to file, a reflection of the conversation for just this eventuality. and comey was trying to manage the situation where he thought the president was ma...

Seek his advice and counsel as we move forward, but obviously we do not want to do anything thats going to impede a federal law enforcement investigation into any aspect, whether its the bridge or any other issue. >> i know that you are still reviewing and still receiving documents related to the last round of subpoenas -- >> thousands of pages. >> are they still -- do you know when you will have them all? in terms of what extensions people have asked for? >> i think that well know at some point...

And were going to continue to seek his advice and counsel as we move forward, but obviously we do not want to do anything thats going to impede a federal law enforcement investigation into any aspect, whether its the bridge or any other issue. >> i know that you are still reviewing and still receiving documents related to the last round of subpoenas -- >> thousands of pages. >> are they still -- do you know when you will have them all? in terms of what extensions people have asked for? >> i thin...

People have asked for? >> i think that well know at some point. were getting documents produced on a rolling basis. >> uh-huh. >> so every couple days well get some more in. so its hard for me to say now that were at 10% or 50% or 75%. at some point in time, those people who are delivering them on a rolling basis will say, youve got everything now, and then well really go into the issue of have we gotten everything? are there privilege issues that theyve raised or are there redactions that might...

Plans and actual work being done or just see payments being made with no work being done. that will be a key question as to whether these statement paimts are a real thing or not. >> when hes brought in now, says he has three clients. president trump, sean hannity and now broidy, who of course apparently cohen paid off the, said she got pregnant by the donor. these payment wrs made earlier, but he didnt mention any of, he didnt mention victor or this company or this american arm. >> but youre ta...