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Lawmakers taking into their own hands and trying to elect or vote on a piece of legislation that would appoint a special prosecutor. their own special prosecutor in all of this. how all of that would unfold in the days, weeks, months, that's uncharted waters or waters we haven't been in for a long time but wolf undoubtedly -- and i don't think this should come as any surprise. the fact that the fbi, even though it was through the u.s. attorney's office and not directly from the special counsel, the fact that this kind of action was taken is rattling people inside trump world, people close to t...

>> a truly extraordinary moment right there, dare i say an extraordinary moment in american history sitting with his vice president, his national security adviser and all of the military brass ostensibly to discuss what to do in syria, the president went after the special counsel robert mueller, went after the investigation, he said the fbi broke into the offices, he used the words "broke into the offices" of michael cohen, his long-time fixer and attorney in new york. a disgraceful situation. he repeatedly said this was a witch-hunt that was going on he then went and said this is an attack on...

Warrant for an attorney's office. there will be a team probably that will take custody of the evidence and make sure and go through and make sure there isn't legitimately privileged information in there. so this is highly extraordinary. there had to be a strong showing of probable cause that there was evidence there, evidence of a crime, and as was pointed out, possibly even evidence that the attorney was participating in the crime for the agents to go in there and do that p. >> and the significance of all of this, you're talking about the president trying to say witch-hunt and plenty of peopl...

Hear of them getting raided because there's the attorney-client privilege that protects the documents in the office. and these documents may be documents relating to the president of the united states, who is cohen's primary client. there is, however, an exception to the attorney-client privilege rule, and it's called the crime-fraud exception. if an attorney engages in criminal or fraudulent conduct with his client, then their communications are not privileged and can be seized. so i'm just wondering what the federal judge was looking at when he authorized a raid on an attorney's office. it s...

They could use going forward. >> they have to have a special team to go through documents -- >> and decide which is privileged. >> in camera. >> this is huge. >> my instinct -- it is it is big. for this reason. a judge had to conclude it was reasonable to believe unless they went in this way, documents would be destroyed. there is -- otherwise, this is a strong presumption against busting into lawyer's offices and seizing all of the documents and they have to be gone -- >> they did in the manafort case as well. convinced the judge the same thing. >> and he was right. and you know why the convi...