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On this and including Stormy Daniels making a stormy appearance as she arrived at the courthouse creating a stir outside. So much going on, so little time to get into it. Welcome. Im neil cavuto. Youre looking at your world. What does judge Andrew Napolitano make of this . First, the brouhaha over sean hannity with laura ingle in new york with the latest. Its been a busy day outside federal court and inside as well. As youve reported and as weve talked about on fox, Michael Cohen was ordered to be here by a judge because she wanted to know who hes clients were and how many of them he had. And last week when his attorneys were asked that question, they couldnt answer it. So she said Michael Cohen needs to be in court today. Here we go. Heres how it went down. Cohens attorney turned over two of the three names early this morning in writing. That would be President Trump and gop fund raiser elliot brody and a third that asked not to be named. The judge in court told cohens attorney that they could not keep it under wraps and forced their hand to reveal the name in court, which is sean hannity. The fox news host responded live on his radio show saying of his relationship with cohen, we have been friends a long time. I have sought legal advice from micha michael. Hes denying that he was cohens client, saying michael never represented me in any matter. I never retained him in the traditional lawyer sense. Now, the issue of who cohen plays into the way the court views Attorney Client privilege. The judge will use the list of names to determine whether or not the records seized should be protected by Attorney Client privilege. Theres been a lot of filings over this. Lawyers asked the judge if their teams could review the evidence been prosecutors do. Earlier this morning, cohen adjusted his request to ask for a third party or what is known as a special master to be appointed by the court to review the records seized. Mr. Trumps team still wants their own people to review the documents themselves. The woman cohen paid 130,000 to in 2016, the porn star, Stormy Daniels, is in fact here. She was chased by photographers on her way in. Our producer, who is in the courtroom, i asked her what it was like when she came in there. She said she didnt have any eye contact with cohen or any members of his legal team. Her attorney said shes here today to make sure all of the information regarding her dealings with cohen are made public and that she can view basically everything that is happening in court. Once again, the proceedings are still underway. Well let you know how the rest of the day goes once it is over. Neil . Neil thanks. Sean is still doing his radio show. He tweeted out a number of comments on this matter. Laura echoed the first one, there was no legal representation going on. Michael cohen has never represented me in any matter, i never retained him or paid any legal fees. When you heard that i assume these conversations were confidenti confidential. Earlier sean said its weird seeing my own name on my own network. He said i had no idea these media people like me so much and now they have to listen to the program. Maybe i should pay it off in the last minute of tv tonight. I think its pretty funny. Presumably he will address that on his show tonight. In the meantime, exploring this relationship he might or might not have and the extend with Michael Cohen with judge Andrew Napolitano. Andrew napolitano, you know the law. You know what is interesting or where you make a connection. Is there anything significant to the fact that the president and sean hannity share an attorney . I dont think so. It was surprising that seans name came out just because we know him and neil why did it come out . Well, one of the reasons it came out is because the government has argued in its briefs that Michael Cohen is not a lawyer in the practice additional sense that he only has one client, its the president of the United States and much of what he does is not legal work. If that is true, if they can demonstrate it as true, then none of these documents are privileged. Michael cohen says i do have two other clients but i cant tell you the name of one of them. The judge said i wont believe you. Okay. Ill tell you who it is. Its sean hannity. Im not so sure that sean was his client in light of the statement that you just read that sean gave. There was no bill, there was no fee, there was no Attorney Client relationship. He didnt do any legal work for him. So that leaves donald trump and this fellow in los angeles whose last name is brody. I forget his first name. Neil why when that comes to light and people are talking about it, why would that even be germane . Why would the judge push it to get it out there if all of this is about, you know, protecting confidentialities and cohens lawyer concerned that that was sort of blown out . She actually maybe not intentionally but incidentally helped cohen by forcing him to articulate the names of other people about whom there might be records in the evidence that were seized. That would defeat or help to defeat the governments argument that hes not a real lawyer. Hes using the Attorney Client privilege to mask his nonlegal work for the president. If he did serious work for this fellow in l. A. And if he did serious legal work for sean, which seems like he didnt in which sean said on the radio and which you read allowed but brody was a gop fund raiser. Sean could have a different relationship, not even being a lawyer per se but whom he bounced off ideas. Any time youre talking to a lawyer, how is that described . Hes your lawyer. Seek legal advice from you on any matter, are you then acting as my lawyer, friend, colleague . What . Im acting as your friend. If you see me in the hallway and say i got a parking ticket. Not a big team. Neil how many times have i tried that. I say heres what you need to do. The conversation is not privileged. In new york, in new jersey, our home state, in most states in the union, it must be reduced to writing and that commences the relationship. Not all communications are subject to the privilege. Only ones that are confidential. So if you say i got the parking ticket, but lets blame it on one of my kids, that is probably confidential. But the fact that you got the parking ticket, the fact that you have hired me, the fact that you want me to represent you is not protected by the privilege. Neil cant you say by that, judge, that this proves theres great risk to raiding someones home and getting stuff because a lot of stuff comes out i dont the original intent of those raiding the home and the offices . That assumes that the original intent was to find damning evidence about Michael Cohen. The original intent might have been the original intent was to embarrass, humiliate or dug up dirt about the president. Neil who has access to that stuff . A lot of stuff was taken. Obviously Michael Cohens lawyer was concerned this would end up in the prosecutors hands and they might leak it and say for example, the president s taxes. Anything would be open season, right . Two things. One is right now everything that the fbi seized is in an evidence vault. Neil who has access to that . Only the fbi. The federal prosecutors that dispatched to the fbi that got the search warrant. Do not have access to it until the judge rules. She may well rule that a privileged team, making air quotes here, thats the terminology in the rule, a privileged team can be with herself, a magistrate judge or some u. S. Attorneys notice involved in the case, but u. S. Attorneys nevertheless will go through this and decide what is privileged. The other thing we dont know is what evidence was presented to the federal judge that signed the search warrant such that that judge was persuaded that four raids had to happen at 5 30 a. M. Simultaneous to each other left to this evidence. That we dont know. We wont find out what that is unless and until and if Michael Cohen is indicted. Neil it seems odd to me, judge, if these are essentially, you know, shielded from prosecutors and in an fbi sealed off room somewhere, how do we know that other people arent getting their eyes on them . We assume that people that took an oath to uphold the rules are in fact upholding the rules. Neil we know the past the people are supposed to be fair to all parties in the past, particularly this case, have not been. Im hoping whatever the outcome here, is that the judge would assign this to an outside privileged team, a retired judge, a special master. Because i think there will be the perception that a federal prosecutor will decide what is privileged and whats not will err in a way to help their colleagues rather than to uphold the privilege. Neil but you dont draw a distinction between sean hannity talking to a Michael Cohen on either just bouncing ideas off as a friend versus legal advice . That in my opinion under the law is not privileged. What donald trump has said to Michael Cohen might not be privileged if it pertained to things other than traditional legal representation, which is what the government is arguing. Neil where is this going, judge . I think this is very troubling to donald trump. Bringing the attorneys into the case could be as troublesome for him as bob mueller. He can fire bob mueller. He cant fire this crowd downtown. Theyre Civil Service protected. They are the most aggressive prosecutors with the most successful track record in the country. Neil so the irony worrying about bob mueller, worrying about what is going on here because this seems to be going on its own path. Yes. Neil Florida Republican congressman matt gates is with us. Congressman, fastmoving developments here what do they tell you . They say theres a glaring hypocrisy unfolding and we have the department of justice participating in it. When Hillary Clinton was under investigation for crimes for destroying classified information for having classified information mishandled, her own lawyers and her own team got to selfcurate the documents they produce. When the shoe is on the other foot, you have President Trumps personal lawyer having to ask for the very fbi that is investigating the president to not be the entity that is curating those records. So were just in search of an equal standard that can be applied and defended not based on politics or who is in the cross hairs. Neil as far as i understand, congressman, the idea behind todays hearing is to try to quell all of the other information that might get out there or risk getting out there beyond the scope of the Mueller Investigation or what prosecutors were looking for. Now its gotten to include other clients, Michael Cohen had, god knows what else that can be revealed down the road. This seems to have gone afield from what it was intended to be. It certainly has. The fact that mr. Mueller referred to this to the Southern District of new york shows it has no nexus. Its still that may end up being embarrassed for the president or his lawyer. So this neil forget about embarrassing. Is this more problematic that basketball mueller, what hes getting or not getting that this side show of business relationships and what have you, we dont know as judge wood is trying to discern, is an even bigger deal . It could. Ill tell you this, neil. When i spoke to the president , it wears on him that as hes trying to do work around the world to promote freedom and inclusion and democracy, that here at home we have these tactics that look more like the second world and the third world than like a Justice System in the United States of america. That does wear on the president. It frustrates him and one of the reasons we see that frustration manifest in his social media. Neil thanks very much, congressman. Well try to stay on top of it. But it is getting curiouser. The dow up 212 points. Relief that what happened in syria wasnt worse or very reassuring for those trying to stop a mad man and chemical weapons. Stay with fox. Long lasting. 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I think we could be proud of our men and women in uniform that chose to protect this nation in interest of our National Security objectives. Theres other options in the game plan like nikki haley said in her meeting saturday, that were locked and loaded. Should assad decide to engage again. But this was a very successful strike. It sends a message not only to assad but to iran, to russia and to north korea. This president is committed to protecting our u. S. National security interests. Neil we draw the line at chemical weapons. If you die by conventional means as thousands have, that isnt going to promote ire as much as using chemical weapons, right . Thats correct. Using weapons of mass destruction like assad did against the citizens of douma the primary mission in syria is to defeat isis. Theres other aspects of our efforts to not only do just that but also to send signals to other adversaries, specifically to iran and putin and russia and north korea. So the United States will not allow an evil person like assad to use chemical weapons much less to harm other National Security interests. Not just the military capabilities we have, but we have other capabilities, economic, financial and diplomatic tools to use to not only stabilize the area but also make sure that u. S. National security interests are protected. Neil general, weve gotten mixed messages on how the administration plans to respond against russia itself or we might be holding off, believing that they might make us a better effort to rid syria of these weapons. Hard to tell. Your thoughts . Hard to tell. But again, putin made a comment or someone representing him about the global chaos that ensues. Hes been part of that chaos in syria and elsewhere. Again, i think i the only thing putin understands is power. So thats what the. And the National Security team demonstrated. That goes with, again, iran and kim jongun of north korea and so forth. Again, not only will the United States we will respond but we will respond with lethal and precise measures. Again, to go back to the top of our discussion, theres other options in our playbook. You know, the u. S. Is prepared and weve shown the will and weve shown the capability against assad using these atrocious weapons of mass destruction, the chemical weapons. Thats a signal that we need to send to other adversaries that attempt fate and try to take on the United States or do harm particularly with weapons of mass destruction, neil. Neil thanks, general. Youve been invaluable steering us through this whole crises in syria that seems to have could down ahead of tax day, tomorrow in this country. Well be in washington taking to Senate Leader Mitch Mcconnell on what to make of that and the messages of that after this. Tech at Safelite Autoglass we know that when youre spending time with the grandkids every minute counts. And you dont have time for a cracked windshield. 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It was his offices and home that was raided by government officials last week. From sean, quoting here from a statement Michael Cohen has never represented me in any manner. Never paid legal fees. Ive occasionally had discussions about legal questions about which i wanted his input and perspective. I assumed those conversations were confidential. To be absolutely clear, they never involved any matter between me and a third party. Presumably the third party would have been the president of the United States. Sean draws a distinction that he was not representing him as an attorney or in general. Well keep you posted. To the president talking about something very didnt earlier today. Take a look. So many of the big companies, they have given bonuses to the people that work for the companies. That was unexpected. Nobody thought that would happen. We waited till february 1. You see what happened to your wallet. Youre getting more money in your weekly or money checks than you ever thought possible. So people are really liking it. Neil the president was focused like a laser beam on tax cuts. Nothing about cohen, nothing about lawyers or any of the stuff that was all the fixation at a federal courthouse in new york today. Deidra bolton on this. Market watcher, katherine rooney. Katherine, as the president was speaking about the success of this to a florida crowd that was for businesses and individuals, the packs cuts have been a boon, hes strategizing that this is not only a winner on wall street where stocks were up over 300 points but on main street where it will be a winning issue for republicans in the midterms. What do you think of that . I think the president has to stay focused like a laser beam on tax reform. The republicans really dont have that many notable successes. We saw the aca repeal failure. Tax reform is a winning topic. He needs to stay on message and stick with the winners. One thing i will highlight, what were not talking about here, how to pay for it. We need to be fiscally responsible unless all the gains in wages and infrastructure and spending will go by the wayside in five or ten years when entitlement programs are bankrupt and our deficit is sky rocketing. You can say that about spending, too. A disproportionate about tax cuts. Duly noted. Brei, do you get something that the president its narrowed in the polls when it comes to americans queried on who they would prefer, a Democratic Congress or a republican congress. The president convinced the number of republicans as well keep pounding the benefit of the tax cuts. What do you think . Its a great strategy. When your enemy destroyed himself, you shouldnt interrupt him. Thats what james comey is doing. A lot of people have been including anna navarro who said im not sure about this comey guy, hes a selfserving emotional teenage girl with no moral guiding what hes doing in all of this. So i definitely think that it makes sense for donald trump to stick to things that work. You know, i do frequently talk about my dads Small Business. He definitely feels that he has an ally in the white house, which is a different tone than what was lived under over the past eight years and the tax cuts have helped my familys business and my familys financial situation. So i definitely think this a winning topic and should push. Neil what is interesting, whatever your political side youre own, its very clear looking through the prism of wall street that the better it looks for the president or what hes doing to do, the better it looks for wall street and the worse it looks for him on the concerns about that, whether its a heightening trade war that might implode or him or the latest allegations that come up in a courthouse today. The worse it looks for traders. It is uncanny, isnt it . Neil, im with you 100 . Every time that President Trump or the administration stays on message and reminds people what theyre trying to do for consumers, for businesses, for investors, you see a day like today where you have stocks in green. Even the slogan and the president referred to it specifically behind him at this event in florida is america, open for business. We heard, okay, my family has a Small Business and being helped but the Trump Administration. It lends confidence. We know thats a big part of american leader, Business Leaders decisions. The see theres not heavy regulation and likely the move forwa forward. When the Trump Administration stays on message and talks about the added jobs, yes, investors respond positively. Im with you, every team we have seen the rhetoric in the potential trade wars get more intense, we have a sell off. I know katherine real quickly, the president has called that he might call china out on currency manipulation. That could be dicey. Sure. Its going to keep volatility high. Every day the markets are up and down by one percentage point. In the end, the republicans need to face the fact that the house is possibly in contention. They just lose 22 seeds and the majority. The president has to focus on whats been working. I think its been very good for cap x and wage increases. We have to focus on entitlement reform. Because were going in deep. Thanks very much. Sorry were truncated here. Well follow up on this tomorrow with the Senate Leader, Mitch Mcconnell. His take on this and why its important he says for everyone, democrats and republicans, to focus on that. Theres other things to focus on as well. Stick around. Youre watching your world. The dow 212 points today. I have type 2 diabetes. Im trying to manage my a1c, and then i learn type 2 diabetes puts me at greater risk for heart attack or stroke. Can one medicine help treat both blood sugar and cardiovascular risk . I asked my doctor. 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Neil all right. I want to take a quick shot downtown to new york at the federal courthouse where all the principles of Michael Cohen and it all, those having anything to do with him having business in the past, Stormy Daniels, for example, is there. This is judge wood trying to decide what has gotten too foregone. Some of these items, the documents, taken from his office when authorities essentially ransacked his home and office to get their hands on them. What can be shared, what cant, what goes too far, who gets their eyes on them. Its a confusing mess and now involved people with who Michael Cohen either talked or did business including sean hannity. To get the read on this, jim kallstrom. I dont want to get into the weeds and details because we dont know the weeds and details. What we do know, this seems to run far afield from what was an investigation on the part of bob mueller and the potential russian collusion to business dealings and more. What is going on . Well, you know, its is far afield, neil. Who knows whats going on. Thats why the special special, special counsels, its a big risk having guys do this. They make a life history of it. And in the case of bob mueller, what does this have to do with his initial charge . The problem is that was, the initial charge was too broad. They havent been able to put fences around him. I dont think theres any desire on the part of this Deputy Attorney general to do that, which is really over the top, i believe. Neil and over the top and in the eyes of some of the trump folks, you know, now a multiprong fire that even if you were able to deal with mueller or whatever he has in store, you have now widened this out to business transactions, relationships, years before he became president and et cetera that could turn everything upsidedown. Well, lets hope this federal judge i know her. Shes an outstanding judge in the Southern District actually reins in what i think is a mob scene. The tactics what theyve been using, what they did to paul man for and drug his wife out of bed with the guns drawn and things like that. Over the top. Thats not the kind of stuff the fbi does. Thats what goes on in third world countries. You know, apparently the attorney cohen was passing papers with the different attorneys, different prosecutors. Everything was going fine. All of a sudden they ratcheted up 1,000 and conduct what is something that is very seldom. I cant remember anything like this happening. So i think theyre really out of control. Neil james, do you know how this procedure works . If you seize evidence or material from someones home and or office and theyre put in a locked room that only the fbi could have access to presumably and no prosecutors, but weve learned about leaks. A lot about leaks. Is it fair to say a lot of this stuff that was taken from Michael Cohen has already leaked into prosecutors hands . Neil, i mean youre right. Id like to say theres no chance of that happening. But just look at whats been going on here. Look at the leaks out of what we believe is bob muellers office. He says its not his leaks. But they seem to be very plentiful. Sure, what are the different prying eyes . What are they seeing . What notes have they made . What are they holding for some later date to spring some sort of a surprise on different people . Its not the right way to do this thing. Its not how we operate as a country. I think its way outside the bounds of the law and how Attorney Client privilege is withheld. Too many prying eyes on this. I hope the judge hammers them on it. Neil judge woods. Well see. That session still continuing in the courthouse. If we get anything more, well let you know. Lets hope, neil. Lets home theres some common sense that prevails on this. Thanks, james. More after this. In an unreasonably narrow fast food drive thru lane. But what a powerful life lesson. And dont worry i have everything handled. I already spoke to our allstate agent, and i know that we have accident forgiveness. Which is so smart on your guys part. Like fact that theyll just. Forgive you. Four weeks without the car. Okay, yup. Good night. With accident forgiveness your rates wont go up just because of an accident. Switching to allstate is worth it. These republicans dont want working class people voting. They dont want black folks voting. Did you know in missouri and texas and other places that Maternal Mortality has risen . Women are dying because we are losing elections. We dont have the right to lose a damn election. Neil okay. Let that debate continue. Are comments like that helping the democrats . They argue, yeah, just be in your face and it will do the trick for us. The most of making money on fbn, Charles Payne and angela moribido. Angela, what do you think . I think the very best advertisement that the gop could ask for is the things that democrats say about them. You know, things in the real world are looking good. Employment is up, taxes are down. The more democrats present like the sky is falling the more they reveal themselves to be out of touch. Neil charles, theres a key use of fear tactics to win elections. L. B. J. Bested Barry Goldwater where the world was on the verge of nuclear annihilation. These pictures can change minds, can it . But that was the United States, all americans being nuked, this is a divisiveness that im praying one day we get over. Were at levels not seen since 2010. I understand that maybe the democrats dont have a message, but at some point they have to be very careful and they must own the negativity, they must own that Race Relations are at the worst point in 50 years. That i have to own this because they soak this every day. Identity politics, whether its making women victims, black people victims, hispanics victim is a relic of the past and does not work these days. Its despicable. Neil angela, the argument among a lot of democrats is we think the wind is at our backs. This blue wave is real and this is the stuff that will deliver for us. That and the argument that the tax cuts that the republicans brag about are rigged to the rich and crumbs for everybody else. It was once considered and isolated comment by nancy pelosi, corey booker in new jersey, of course, using the same tactic what do you make of that . I think that the democrats really kind of show what theyre working with when you have Keith Ellison saying we dont have the right to lose a darn election. But hes missing out on what a Representative Democracy is. Of course you, Keith Ellison and the democrats have a right to lose an election. This is how elections work. If we didnt have those, we wouldnt have the country the way that we know it is today. So i think, you know, what the democrats are saying now undercuts bipartisanship and working a cross the aisle. They say theyre desperate for trump and the republicans to work with them and then they say, oh, by the way, youre killing women and youre terrible and we think 1,000 for a working family is crumbs. That message doesnt resonate. The more democrats keep saying that, the less momentum theyre going to have going into the midterms this november. Neil charles, i dont know where all of this is going. What i do know is the president and a lot of republicans seem to think those tax cuts will be a good message, that people are seizing on the extra money they have, theyre spending it, its lifting the economy. Even more so in the months ahead. Do you buy that or is that a hail mary pass . No. Im buying it. I think the republicans should use a message posted on the white house message board by president obama. When they got the payroll taxes extended and they equated it to 40 a month and they had stories from all 50 states, stories of how 40 a week went so far as to improve peoples lives. Id say take the same message, borrow from president obama and put it on the white house message board now. 40 was great back then, i think its a lot more now and would be good today, too. Neil what do you think of that, angela . I think youre right. I think democrats are really sort of shooting themselves in the foot here. The best thing the gop can do now is to highlight the progress that they have made in the past year and change and then to chart a path forward going on. The democrats have this advantage of we know what they want to do if they gain control of congress after the november elections. We know they want to roll back all of trumps policies. What we dont know is what republicans want to do should they keep control of congress. What are those next steps . If republicans can give the American People something to look forward to, i think theyll ride that wave of optimism and do better than projected come november. Neil we shall see. Thanks, Michael Cohen. The hearing in new york has finished. A lot of lawyers will come out those doors. When they do, were there after this. One part steak. One part ribs. Two parts incredible. New steak ribs at outback. 15. 99 for a limited time. Get a 6oz sirloin and make it your own with a choice of honey sriracha, barbecue, or dry rub ribs. So hurry in to outback now. phone ringing big button, and volumeenhanced phones. Get details on this state program. Call or visit and accessories for your mobile phone. Like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. phone ringing get details on this state program call or visit neil all right. They are coming out. Stormy daniels attorney is speaking. Lets listen in. For years, mr. Cohen has acted like hes above the law. Hes considered himself an and refer to himself as mr. Trumps fixer. Hes played by a different set of rules or no rules at all. He has never thought that the little man or especially women, even more women like me, matter. That ends now. My attorney and i are committed to making sure that everyone finds out the truth and the facts of what happened and i give my word that we will not rest until that happens. Thank you very much. Neil Stormy Daniels lawyers is going to address reporters. She just wanted to be there. I will now accept questions about todays hearing and other topics related to my client. [question inaudible] yeah, i think judge wood was very reasoned and measured in her approach relating to the documents. Our number 1 concern was that the documents, the integrity of the documents be maintained during the process. Its clear from the order by judge wood that that is exactly what is going to happen. That will insure that no documents are destroyed or otherwise tampered with, which is our chief concern in connection with this process. [question inaudible] im not going to answer that. Thats a ridiculous questions. Next question. [question inaudible] i think shes ultimately going to determine whether a special master is appropriate or not. One thing i will say is this i said last friday and this weekend that Michael Cohen was radioactive and that anybody that was associated with him in the last 20 to 30 years should be very, very concerned. What we witnessed earlier in the hearing with the disclosure relating to sean hannity proves my point exactly. He is radioactive. Anyone that had any contact with this man in the last 20 years should be very concerned about what secrets of theirs are within these documents. Next question. [question inaudible] im sorry . [question inaudible] depending on what is contained in those documents, i think theres significant danger to the president. The president trusted mr. Cohen as his fixer for years. He trusted him with his inner most secrets and i think the chickens are about to come home to roost. Next question. [question inaudible] i wouldnt even begin to advise the president. I think the ship has sailed. [question inaudible] no, there was absolutely a reason. We wanted to ensure that the integrity of the documents was maintained and we wanted to lend her voice towards making sure that the American People learn the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about what happened to her and others in her position the last 10 to 15 years. [question inaudible] we havent made a determination yesterday as to whether she will attend each hearing in this process. [question inaudible] well, i think it speaks volumes and i think sean hannity got thrown under the bus by Michael Cohens counsel today who was clearly more concerned about protecting the president than protecting sean hannity. Were going to let them sort that out. Anything else . [question inaudible] are you concerned with your safety right now . Ive been concerned for my safety but we decided the risk is more than worth it. And were going to see this conclusion whether its next week, next month, next year, no matter how long it takes. Were not going away. Thank you. Neil youve been listening to Stormy Daniels lawyer. He was saying about Michael Cohen, the guy has proven hes radioactive. Ask anyone that has done business with him or had any associations, going on to say that includes sean hannity. Sean hannity has climbed that Michael Cohen has never represented me in any matter. I never retained him or paid legal fees. I have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questionses in which i wanted his input and perspective. I assumed those conversations were confidential but they never involved any matter with me and a third party. And daniels attorney is not going to let go inferring there was some sort of quid pro quo between hannity in this case and the president of the United States. Theres no proof of that. No insinuation of that. Judge woods had said just getting all clients of Michael Cohens names out there didnt mean anything. Laura ingle on these developments here. Im thinking this is a drama will go far afield from what bob mueller was try, to extract. The Court Proceedings just ended and we had a court producer there that was discerning about what just took place. The headline is that no decision was made today on what is going to be turned over to any team here. Of course, as weve reported all day long, Michael Cohens legal team along with President Trumps legal team has been asking to have some form of view of the documents that were seen. They want to check and see if theres Attorney Client privilege that is in jeopardy with all of this. The bottom line, judge wood has said shes going to let the government put everything together, make copies of the documents, the physical and electronic documents and give the documents to Michael Cohens team that will confer with trumps legal team so they can go over what was seized and they can come back to wort with their own numbers of how much of that information meaning how many pages, how many discs will be considered privileged information. The judge said they need some time, Everybody Needs time to go over all of this information so that they can make a more intelligent choice on exactly what can be viewed by these teams. That is what we have as the latest here from the courthouse. Neil . Neil amazing. Thanks very much. This all started about an investigation into possible russian ties to the Trump Campaign and now morphed into a number of tentacle areas that heretofore thought untouchable concerning business dealings and alleged payoffs to porn stars and the like to say this has veered wildly from its original intent would be an understatement. That will do it here. See you in washington tomorrow. The five is now. Greg i am greg gutfeld with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, jesse watters. She will split an mmm with you. Dana perino. The five. Stephanopoulos and comey, they were each others homie. You were in that private jet basically alone. What did you do . I drink red wine from a coffee cup and looked out at the lights of the country. That is it, the pinnacle of your professional career. Greg you can smell the affection pouring out of the tv. A little guy who