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Pjs calling into his favor show, riffing on everything. but as a person dealing with more than a few legal battles, he seemed to undermine the case that his lawyers were in court today arguing, that some of those materials seized in the cohen raid were privileged. something the president was very upset about. he called it an act of war when cohens home and offices were seized. today he seemed to say, well, he wasnt really acting as my lawyer, which under cuts the central argument about privilege...

Court yesterday say ridiculous position by the presidents lawyers and michael cohens lawyers. that they should be the ones that determine whats privilege and not is absurd. >> so the substance of this hearing yesterday, what happens from here? because its a significant hearing. the trump team wanted access to what they believe would be attorney/client privileged material that was seized during the michael cohen raid yesterday. they didnt get that but the government didnt get yet precisely what i...

>> you know, andrea, you guys a double-team by the way. did amazing reporting on every single one of those three manaforts real estate raids had two teams, a tape team that was there to make sure that transactions. nobody in the normal i remember reading your work and thinking that looks like a prima investigation would by chance facie case. see privileged material. and what shows up in the mueller investment? >> robert gates has pleaded guilty to that. i think one of the things that this is a h...

Didnt they just do that. and that what that means is they basically had concluded and they needed some concrete reason to do so, that as with manafort, as you may remember, cohen wasnt likely to be cooperative. they needed to come in with the huge show of federal force. a double-team by the way. every single one of those three raids had two teams, a tape team that was there to make sure that nobody in the normal investigation would by chance see privileged material. this is a huge coordinated op...

Lawyers turning up the heat on the special counsel about how robert muellers team obtained those e-mails from the transition. and tonight, muellers office with a rare response. heres abcs senior white house correspondent cecilia vega. >> reporter: the russia investigation may be closing in, but president trump insists he has no plans to fire the man leading the charge, special counsel robert mueller. >> are you still considering firing robert mueller? >> no, im not. no. what else? what, are you ...

Real question. even if he does, whether hes allowed to say it. remember, giuliani didnt waive other privileges, just that tape. even if he has something that might be incriminating, no evidence that he does, he cant reveal it unless its a violation of the lawyer/client privileged or waived if its a lawyer/client privileged material. >> laura: whats the potential jeopardy, if any, that this tape posed to the president of the united states? again, so people understand this, its hard to hear this t...