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Essentially agreed, listen, doj said we're not going to prosecute you for the related election and campaign finance violations with this if you cooperate and the agreement is very clear. the deal is completely off if you engage had any crimes whatsoever. we don't know if there are any crimes here. possibly if the information mr. bezos's private information was hacked, that's certainly a crime, and there's some talk about extortion. that's another question of the whether there's elements or facts getting rise to that. the notion that they have this agreement, the justice department is -- has th...

Covering up of a crime, those communications are not privileged and those are the type communications that would be made available to prosecutors, federal agents, for them to continue their investigation, to possibly continue their case and one day possibly bring charges. >> so they'll have a team look at material that cohen might say is privileged -- >> exactly. >> -- and they may say some of that you think it's privileged but that's you negotiating a crime with your client, we're going the to hand that over to the other side of the law. >> exactly. that's going to the other side of the wall,...

They have to set up a team, and it's going to be an entirely separate team that's going to look at these communications and say okay, guys, we know the scope, what the judge has approved here, we know the scope of what you can get. and then they'll hand over those communications to the actual trial team because what they need to protect in this case is for the people actually going to bring this potential case to trial, should he be prosecuted. that team can't be aware of any sort of communications that occurred as it related to attorney-client privilege. but if there were communications, and ...