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Pjs calling into his favor show, riffing on everything. but as a person dealing with more than a few legal battles, he seemed to undermine the case that his lawyers were in court today arguing, that some of those materials seized in the cohen raid were privileged. something the president was very upset about. he called it an act of war when cohen's home and offices were seized. today he seemed to say, well, he wasn't really acting as my lawyer, which under cuts the central argument about privileged material. >> he absolutely did. i think it is a reminder the president even in the friendly conf...

Court yesterday say ridiculous position by the president's lawyers and michael cohen's lawyers. that they should be the ones that determine what's privilege and not is absurd. >> so the substance of this hearing yesterday, what happens from here? because it's a significant hearing. the trump team wanted access to what they believe would be attorney/client privileged material that was seized during the michael cohen raid yesterday. they didn't get that but the government didn't get yet precisely what it wanted. do you think ends with a taint team? does it end with a special master and if so wha...

>> you know, andrea, you guys a double-team by the way. did amazing reporting on every single one of those three manafort's real estate raids had two teams, a tape team that was there to make sure that transactions. nobody in the normal i remember reading your work and thinking that looks like a prima investigation would by chance facie case. see privileged material. and what shows up in the mueller investment? >> robert gates has pleaded guilty to that. i think one of the things that this is a huge coordinated is incredibly interesting about the cohen real estate operation. transactions is th...

Didn't they just do that. and that what that means is they basically had concluded and they needed some concrete reason to do so, that as with manafort, as you may remember, cohen wasn't likely to be cooperative. they needed to come in with the huge show of federal force. a double-team by the way. every single one of those three raids had two teams, a tape team that was there to make sure that nobody in the normal investigation would by chance see privileged material. this is a huge coordinated operation. >> just to explain that. my understanding is they call it a clean and dirty team in these...

Lawyers turning up the heat on the special counsel about how robert mueller's team obtained those e-mails from the transition. and tonight, mueller's office with a rare response. here's abc's senior white house correspondent cecilia vega. >> reporter: the russia investigation may be closing in, but president trump insists he has no plans to fire the man leading the charge, special counsel robert mueller. >> are you still considering firing robert mueller? >> no, i'm not. no. what else? what, are you surprised? >> reporter: his lawyers, however, launched a new attack. in a seven-page letter to ...