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But to advance the ball to pick whether its going to be a special master, or this privilege team or taint team as its called. >> lets trial to call it a privilege team, or a filter team. >> it will either be the privilege team or the filter team that theyll use, or a special master. so well find out this week or early next week. but it doesnt mean that the investigation completely stops because they have been monitoring michael cohens emails leading up to the search warrant coming in. so i thatl...

Last two years. this is important. this is gist for clients of his from 2017 and 2018, this current year. sean hannity has been identified as a client. how do we know this is sean hannity who is an anchor person at fox news versus sean hannity that just works down the street? before this michael cohens defense attorney that he was a prominent earn approximate he desired he not be named but he was a well-known public figure. >> do we know exactly what shawn happenity needed cohens representation ...

House of the "wall street journal" about michael cohen, we have been friends for a long time, ive sought legal advice from michael, but we dont know anything more about that; is that correct? >> it actually came up in court, and the government told the court and told the judge that in fact in this case they have not had an opportunity or at least the investigative team has not had an opportunity to go through any of the documents, items seized. cell phones, computer hard drive, et cetera. at thi...

To the court, he talked about how this investigation had become politicized. he talked about people were discussing whether or not this investigation was prep. he said both mr. he coulden and mr. trump have made inflammatory remarks about this case. he accused them of drumming up the media attention. when he talked about fairness it was really on cohen and trump who had been talking about this case and drumming up contention about it and thats the reason why this issue of fairness is a question ...

He is a fox news anchor. it has been revealed in open court that in 2017 and or 2018 those years, sean hannity -- in a legal setting sean hannity has used the services of president trump personal attorney michael cohen. thats the information we have right now. the hearing is still going on in the court behind me with the judge. the sides are going back and forthright now as to whether or not a special master should be put into hey, thats kind of a referee to determine whether or not the do you m...

Warrant after there are possible charges filed or after there is an indictment. this is a little unusual, there is a fight going on before theres been any charges, potentially, filed in the case. thats what this hearing is about today, a continuation of events from last week. >> if the restraining order is in place, how are they able to review his e-mails? >> reporter: well, what theyre proposing here today, and really what this restraining order is about, they want to call a time-out. they want...

>> at what point is that decided, the removal of that attorney/client privilege. >> its interesting because now that the documents are in the possession of federal agents, they are the ones that will review the documents for privilege and they have to. they have to separate them into three piles. privileged, not privileged and maybe privileged. so as this goes on, the strange thing is that the very people inspecting these papers for privilege are the people that the attorney likely never wanted ...

Which everybody has told you here had to go through a rigorous process and had to be signed off on, there is actually a privilege team that will look at this and be able to go through certain parts of the communications that is a self-contained team. they can look at any e-mail traffic, any memos back and forth between the two. we know trump doesnt use e-mail that much. so maybe there is some memos or some notes. can look at that and say some of this is important to what we applied for the searc...