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They took privilege communications that almost certainly have to involve communications between the president and cohen. all right. that's fact. but there's also feeling here. which is my suggestion is we have never seen the president as aware as he is right now that he is a focus of this investigation. that there is jeopardy. and in his own mind, that means my lawyers, they don't know what they're talking about. people around me who say they have my back, they don't. these people they told me to put in positions of power are going against me. >> correct. what you just said i think is the key ...

Today the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york executed a series of search warrants and seized the privilege communications between my client and his clients. i've been advised by federal prosecutors that the new york action is in part of a referral by the office of special counsel robert mueller. i have laura coats on the phone, former federal prosecutor. laura, your reaction to this? i'm no lawyer but it seems rather unusual for an attorney's office to be raided by the fbi. >> it is normally very unusual for that to happen. ands you have the attorney-clients privilege...

Privately. that is to say, if cohen was operating as an in-house counsel for the trump organization, and it's hard to figure out what exactly he was. sometimes he's called personal attorney. sometimes he's on the trump letterhead. if he's an in-house counsel, and he's providing business advice, that's not privileged. if he's providing legal advice which is intended to be privileged, then that's privileged. so it might be that he's not actually being -- you know, the evidence being taken from him is not exactly client-attorney privilege communications. plus, a lot of this evidence will be segre...

Communications in confidence, that disappears. >> let me do two things. i'm going to read to our viewers a statement from mr. cohen's lawyers. i'm also going to introduce our panel who thought they were here to talk about very different topics, but here we are talking about porn stars again. statement from mr. cohen's lawyer reads, today the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york executed a series of search warrants and seized the privilege communications between my client michael cohen and his clients. i have been advised by federal prosecutors that the new york action i...

Constitutional providence also many of those e-mails were subjected or protected by privilege or attorney client privilege and when we asked the special counsel team about that they said quote mac to contact us to inform us the special counsel had failed that they simply reviewed the privilege communications in the materials and they also argue that this situation could put future presidential transition teams at risk to be misappropriated by other government agencies later this week the legal team is meeting with the special counsel muller as well. arthel: a big week the