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The judge seemingly suggested that he could have given it to her on a piece of paper, perhaps she would have not read it in open court. she may have reviewed it in camera. at some point the lawyer decided to just blurt out in open court that it was sean hannity. >> by the way, we don't know if sean hannity is really a client. >> yeah. >> since sean hannity say i never gave him any money. i never gave michael cohen any money, never retained his legal services. occasionally i would run a couple legal issues off him, bounce ideas off him. is he a client or not? is he protected by attorney/client ...

Stuff and that does not create a legal client relationship. >> the casual nature of the way sean hannity is discussing this doesn't suggest that he's worried about what materials there may be exist. he has a bigger concern. which is he never told anybody that he had this kind of relationship with michael cohen, even though he has been defending cohen vigorously and he has been attacking anything to do with any type of investigation of cohen, should he have disclosed. >> oh, absolutely. and you're right, chris. two things at work here. sean hannity is trying to protect his journalistic integrit...

>> so if what he tweeted one thing he tweeted yesterday was that michael cohen has never represented me in a legal matter. >> concerning a third party. >> well, but he also just said he hasn't represented me in a matter. >> he also said i thought i had a privilege with him. >> he said he thought he had a privilege. >> because i talked to him about certain legal things. i assumed we had a confidence. we'll see what happens. >> is that wrong? >> that's not really the way that a lawyer in practice has a relationship with a client. there has to be a normal, legitimate practicing lawyer would have ...

Here. cohen lawyer description of the situation and hannity's description are very different. hannity is trying to say no legal fees paid, no invoices. michael cohen wasn't the lawyer. >> but he thinks he has a privilege. >> he still has a privilege. this is not adding up. fox is not saying a word about this. it will be a mystery for hannity's viewers as well as for his critics as well as for his bosses now. >> brian, i just want to stick with you for one more minute. in terms of journalism, the rulesf journalism we follow, there's something called full disclosure. it works like this. when you...

Courtroom. certainly they talked about whether or not he had dealings with sean hannity and what dealings. sean hannity says he only sought legal advice and had nothing to do with the case that is going on at this point. christine and dave. >> brynn, thank you. sean hannity gave his version on the show last night. downplaying his attorney/client relationship. also saying he expected the communications to be covered by attorney/client privilege. >> michael cohen never represented me in any legal matter. i never retained his services. i never received an invoice. i never paid michael cohen for l...