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Feed. katy, lawyers have obligations when it comes to their clients, as we have discussed with danny. do clients have any obligations with respect to their lawyers? why i ask this is does sean hannity have any obligations when supporting donald trump in the investigation, when speaking about things, to say that the central character in the curiosity around donald trump right now happens to be michael cohen, does sean hannity have to do anything about the fact that people now have to know? and by the way, he's my lawyer? >> again, the privilege although it may gnat necessarily extend to the ide...

You are excused if this is hard to follow because i have just given you a whole lot of information all at once, but i have got some people to help us make sense of it. katy phthang is with us. outside the courtroom is tom winter. what just happened? >> what just happened is that as you mentioned before, this morning we knew that michael coen in the last two years has represented president trump. of course he is his personal attorney. we also knew from a court filing that he represented elliot bradentony. the third person was unidentified and coan's team didn't want to identify him in court. on...

Cohen. that's the only reason his attorneys provided as far as why they wanted to either file that under a seal, they asked for the judge's assurance. an attorney for media companies stood up and protested whether or not this name should be filed under seal saying there was no legal purpose for it. that's what the judge said, there was no legal reasoning she found why this name shouldn't be made public. that's the reason she ordered it to be disclosed right there on the spot. and cohen's attorneys had to say it in open court. >> let's explore this, katy. does a court not to tell an attorney wh...

Privilege and pass that along to the investigating team. those arguments -- that's the reason we are down here in the first place. that is ongoing but we wanted to come out here and tell that you the third client -- president trump's attorney cohen has represented in the last two years is in fact sean hannity. >> and the "wall street journal" has got a quote from sean hannity in response to being named in court. michael cohen -- sean hannity says of michael cohen, we have been friend a long time. i have sought legal advice from michael. possibly the shortest two sentences sean hannity has ever...

Tends to tremendously prolong the process and the represent for the united states turn's office mccabe said they had serious concerns that by using a special master or cohen looking at these documents and deciding for him what was attorney klein privilege and what was relevant to federal prosecutors that would tremendously delay the case. his concern was that any long delays in the investigative and possible prosecution process in this case could really be -- to really slow down the overall judicial process and really be an advantage for michael cohen. that was the argument that was going on b...