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But he then invoked the phrase client/attorney privilege. you can't have it both ways. if you are not a client, then you're not entitled to the privilege. if you aren tig entitled, you a clients whether you paid money or not. >> he did say at end of the clip we played and assume the conversations were attorney/client confidential. and he also made it clear over the weekend based on what we heard in the courtroom, he didn't want his name to be released but the federal judge made the lawyers for michael cohen release his name and of course they did. you sit on the over sight committee, is this a...

Attorney/client privilege and the government could examine all of -- any sort of papers involving both of them. i don't know that it would have a big effect on the president one way or the other. it is really about the two of them. >> if it was a legal issue, laura coates and you're our legal analyst. he said on his radio show, i assume that those conversations he had with michael cohen were attorney/client confidential. >> that is a new category of evidence. as attorney/client privilege, that is what you are talking about, the idea he would have attorney/client confidential material not discl...

Absence of an official engagement agreement is a little more troubling. the rules of conduct in each state require you should have an official engagement agreement evidencing the scope of a retention. the fact there is no official retention is belied by the fact sean hannity now said he did consult with or sought legal advice. so, you know, the absence of official documentation does not negate the existence of a relationship. >> we have a minute. i have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which i wanted his input and perspective and i assume these conversati...

We're not going to get into sean hannity's objectivity, but it raises real questions for fox news, whether they knew about this, whether he disclosed it to them, and whether they are okay with him continuing to rail against this investigation when we were now know he has a very personal interest in it. it goes beyond just him and goes to i think the entire network. >> everyone is staying put. i want to play you sean hannity responding on his radio show just after this news broke a little over an hour ago. let's listen and talk to gabe on the other side. >> michael never represented me in any m...

Very clear to the media, michael never represented me in any matter. i never retained him in the traditional sense as retaining a lawyer. i never received an invoice from michael. i never paid legal fees to michael. but i have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which i wanted his input and perspective. and i assume that those conversations were attorney/client confidential. >> so, wolf, it's not entirely clear. did not say the nature of the work that sean hannity and michael cohen were involved in but the fact is that the attorneys did say that sean hannity...