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>> yes, and that could end up being a big problem for the president. so even if michael cohen was representing him on a matter, if trump was allowing a third party to see the communications from cohen, respond to him, that is essentially a waiver of the privilege. trumps employee, hes giving access to disclosures. it might be that what hes trying to do is create plausible deniability that hes associated, but it is going to cause problems. because either he was a client in which case he knew abou...

You can expect the review process to keep a lot out. >> right. so she basically didnt give in to cohen and trumps attorneys requests that they be the ones to go through and sift and decide which of these communications are privileged. she did ask the government to give them the communications. but what shes saying is shes going to think about perhaps having a special master, which is kind of a neutral party go through and determine this as opposed to a group of prosecutors who would be the taint...

This other district may have been investigating michael cohen for other issues before that. one more final question on michael cohen, what do you make of judge kimba woods decision to slow things down a little bit and create this review process for the evidence that was seized? would you like to see it be reviewed by investigators right away or are you okay with the more careful approach? >> i support judge woods decision. and ultimately what she did yesterday, she upheld the rule of law. she re...

Independent investigators known as the filter team through the fbi and the stmy, or the taint team would be responsible for doing the separating, withholding any protected documents forever being used in the case. but this a remarkable letter to the judge last night, the presidents own lawyer asked the judge to suspend the governments usual review process, making investigators instead hand all the seized documents over to none other than michael cohen so cohen and the president could decide what...

Theyre already reviews, this privileged review process, so its almost as if the horse is out of the barn and theyre trying to close the barn door after everybody is gone. a judge has already authorized this. just remember, this is not the prosecutors making the decision as to whether something is privileged or not, as the government said, they have will not turn anything over to the investigative team, which is separate from the privileged team until a judge authorizes it. so this is going to be...

Complicated procedure within the justice department. theres actually a pardon attorney who runs an office that examines pardons. theres a petition that is made by the person who is seeking the pardon and then an extensive review process. the prosecutors who worked on that case on this case pat fits jared would have been consulted as part of that process. none of that what happened which suggests it was for political process. pat fitzgerald talked about that today because frankly along the way he...

>> will you make the commitment to changing all the user default settings to minimize the greatest extent possible the collection and use of users data? i dont think thats hard for you to say yes to unless im missing something. >>congressman, this is a complex issue than i think deserves more than a one-word answer. >> again, thats disappointing to me. >> why should we trust you to follow through on these promises when you have demonstrated repeatedly that youre willing to flout your own interna...

And agents not working on the case. we must ensure that the. researchers had to develop a review process for the seized material. >> thats a. >> its a lot of hoots, but don, i want to know, what happened to russia? where did russia a go. >> i know were krumplged for time, but this is an important conversation. as i said from the very beginning when you started to talk, these are two. . tell trump not to pleat up with porn stars, and hes married, and drop his trousers. >> okay, guys. i got to go....

Privileged communications between cohen and his science. a clean team, including lawyers and agents not working on the case. we must ensure that the. researchers had to develop a review process for the seized material. >> thats a. >> its a lot of hoots, but don, i want to know, what happened to russia? where did russia a go. >> i know were crunched for time, but this is an important conversation. as i said from the very beginning when you started to talk, these are two. . tell trump not to pleat...

Ongoing investigations or that contain grand jury information or contain personal information like your home address and cell number so that redaction process, the review process, is painstaking, and i wish the president understood the process and didnt just call folks and things names. >> yeah. i wonder why nobody has actually explained to him that process as well from the white house. natasha, let me switch gears and ask you something as well that the president tweeted about this morning. he c...