sexual affair with donald trump around that same time. the "new york times" is reporting the fbi also searched for records related to mr. cohen's taxi cab business, apparently a separate line of inquiry unrelated to mr. trump. the president tweeted today "attorney-client privilege is dead." that is the kind of trump tweet that is normally read as a rage tweet, short, simple, ending in an exclamation point, and completely and utterly untrue. back with us now, benjamin wittes, editor-in-chief of law fair. also harry litman, former federal prosecutor and deputy assistant attorney general under president clinton. he is now a professor at the university of california san diego. and david corn, washington bureau chief of mother jones, co-author of the current best-seller, "russian roulette: the inside story of putin's war on america and the election of trump." he is also an nbc political