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Did not age well. this was the headline in "new york law journal" following the first court appearance by michael cohen's lawyers after michael cohen's office, home, hotel room and safety deposit box were all raided by federal agents in april of this year. and you can see the headline there. "michael cohen's attorneys claim thousands of privileged documents scooped up in raid." the headline actually understates it a little bit. what michael cohen's lawyer actually said in court was that "thousands if not millions of documents that were seized from michael cohen should be considered privileged....

In the meantime, though, this did not age well. this was the headline in "new york law journal" following the first court appearance by michael con's lawyers after michael cohen's office, home, hotel room and safety deposit box were all raided by federal agents in april of this year. and you can see the headline there. "michael cohen's attorneys claim thousands of privileged documents scooped up in raid." the headline actually understates it a little bit. what michael cohen's lawyer actually said in court was that "thousands if not millions of documents that were seized from michael cohen shou...

Of us on the committee. we have further steps to take and we'll be taking those. >> reporter: fox news confirms late last night, don mcgann explained why executive privilege covers the transition. that was not enough for the committee's ranking democrat who claims bannon's in contempt and his privilege claim is overly broad and unsustainable. >> we cannot permit a situation where the white house is allowed to script self-serving and misleading questions. >> reporter: the democrats' memo about the abuses and when it will be public, the congressman had no comment as he walked away from reporters...

Reporting that the president himself helped draft the initial son.ment by his here's what the president's lawyer said to me in july on this issue. >> the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement. it came from donald trump jr. so that's what i can tell you because that's what we know. again, donald trump jr. said the same aithing, that it was in fa from him. >> does that statement still hold up baseded on your questioningh of donald trump jr last month? >> because of this novel claim of aiprivilege, we don't know wt happened in that investigati...

Campaign, done very professionally. just step by step. and now we're beginning to see the investigation being fulfilled. and it will go right to the center of the white house. >> i'm curious, another member of the house intel committee congressman jim hunt, i want to play for you what he told chuck todd about that interview with donald trump. here it is. >> so he used in privilege claim to just not describe any conversations he had with his father, period? >> no, just this particular conversation. again, why decide that you are not going to talk about that particular conversation. this is a pr...