i think that the southern district already in the very little that they have said publicly have made clear that this is an investigation about michael cohen s business practices and dirty trick practices. those are not protected by the attorney/client privilege for many different reasons. one of which is that there seems to be not a true lawyer/client relationship between michael cohen and anybody except donald trump, and even that i think is pretty limited, and number two, because there s the crime fraud exception. so he s just saying things if you re involved in a fraud, if you re involved in conspiracy, if you re involved in a crime or if you re involved in just dirty tricks. or a cover-up or obstruction or trying to get rid of evidence. as danny often says, there s no fixer/client privilege in america. no, there s a lot of things for which there is not a privilege, there s not a barber/client privilege, not a friend there are a lot of different things we would like to h
district of new york, attorneys who are investigating. th trump s personal lawyer michael cohen. that doesn t sound like the kind of thing we do in america. it sounds like we ve got a constitution that s supposed to protect us from that sort of thing. that s wild. i agree. completely. it s wild. and it seems like any time any type of investigatory agency or prosecutorial agency gets close to the president or anyone around him in terms of finding out that they ve committed crimes, the answer is let s prosecute those people. right. that s not how it works here. the southern district of new york is conduct iin ining a per legitimate criminal investigation of a man named michael cohen. he happens to be a lawyer. he happens to have had some, some lawyer/client relationship with trump but that is not the does not seem to be the focus or the bounds of that investigation. and michael cohen and donald trump don t get protection from investigations just because michael cohen has a law li