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Will come in and the government, a separate team of prosecuters and investigators will look at the documents, see what may be attorney/client privilege and see what should be turned over as part of the search warrant. there's a time crunch on michael cohen's attorney. that's the key news as it relates to the ondoing -- >> i'm going to interrupt you. michael avenatti is speaking right now. >> some of them relate to my client and her attorney/client privilege communications. mr. cohen and his attorney mr. ryan should release all of those audio recordings to the american people and to congress so...

Which prosecutors say they are still reconstructing. michael avenatti was also there at the court, asking the judge to ask cohen's lawyers about leaks, but the judge refused, saying as of now, avenatti, who is representing stormy daniels, has no standing in this case. >> we now have what i will refer to as the trump tapes. mr. ryan admitted that there are audio recordings that michael cohen was taking for years and that those recordings are to quote him, not only do they exist, but they are under lock and key and some of them relate to my client and her attorney/client privilege communications...

At least meanwhile back in the new york case, those inconsistent statements damage michael cohen and trump's own argument that this universe of privileged documents is so large that it needs to be handled carefully. if michael cohen was a businessman that shrinks the circle. if he handled a tiny amount of legal projects, it makes the circle even smaller. a potential of attorney/client privilege communications. >> based on the tweet the president put out. very quickly, does she have a case? >> so libel cases are technical cases. what i would expect to happen if they choose to file one here, is ...

To change the taint rules when it comes to lawyer/client privilege communications. requiring that a judge, a judicial officer be present during the search of any lawyer's office, and before anything can be seized, a preliminary determination has to be made by a judicial officer. only that judicial officer will listen and watch, and if he determines that anything is privileged, no government agent gets to see it. that way, first of all, no government agent does get to see it, there's no leak, because judges don't leak. if it does leak, we know who did it, because there's only one person -- what...

Only had one client. so it's not as if these thousands, if not millions, quote, these are quotes, those communications would all pertain to his work on behalf of the president. >> right, which goes back to even if donald trump doesn't do e-mail, you are saying that he, by invoking attorney/client privilege for that much material is effectively admitting that these were donald trump. when would he in your view, potentially have to plead the fifth? >> he's been ordered to appear at 2:00 on monday by the honorable judge wood because she posed a number of questions to his lawyers in court today ab...