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And say, we had to do a search warrant this time so we could go through it ourselves. >> chuck, explain to our good viewers how it is that the president's lawyers were in effect today arguing against the president's justice department and in your lifetime, have we ever seen anything like that? >> well, it's a little bit odd, brian, you're right. so judge kimba wood, the federal judge in the southern district of new york presiding here, permitted the trump attorneys to appear on behalf of the president to articulate his interests. i don't think she had to do that because he's not technically a ...

Back what they think is privileged. the government made a compelling case that they had appropriate procedures in place, that the crimes that they have suspected that michael cohen committed involved dishonesty, that he's been shown that he can't be trusted to respond in a comprehensive way to subpoenas. so a search warrant was the appropriate way to go here, and they need to be able to go through that material without it being basically picked apart by trump and by cohen in advance. >> and isn't the argument to that in english kind of, if we thought you guys could be trusted with all you have...

For his book, which, remember, doesn't come out until tomorrow. in that interview, comey also talked about that february 2017 meeting where he says president trump asked him to drop the fbi investigation into michael flynn. >> his words were, though, i hope you can let it go. i took the expression of hope as, this is what i want you to do. >> the president says he didn't say that. >> yeah. well, what am i going to do? he did. >> was president trump

Those subpoenas that cohen was holding things back. so they actually have kind of done this, been there, done that and say, we had to do a search warrant this time so we could go through it ourselves. >> chuck, explain to our good viewers how it is that the president's lawyers were in effect today arguing against the president's justice department and in your lifetime, have we ever seen anything like that? >> well, it's a little bit odd, brian, you're right. so judge kimba wood, the federal judge in the southern district of new york presiding here, permitted the trump attorneys to appear on be...

Obstructing justice? >> possibly. i mean it's certainly some evidence of obstruction of justice. >> well, you know that phrase about payback. since saturday, president trump has slammed comey a number of times on twitter, writing in part, quote, slippery james comey will go down as the worst fbi director in history by far. i never asked comey for personal loyalty. i hardly even knew this guy. just another of his many lies. his memos are self-serving and fake. back with us, philip rucker, ashley parker, "washington post." chuck rosenberg and jennifer rodgers, of counsel to this conversation. so...