hourly rate is more than $10 an hour. i won t ask you to answer that, though. shimon prokupecz, he made a good point about how all this came out in terms of the client list. he said if it wasn t for the attorney representing the press, and the media in this, that hannity s name would not would have been filed and sealed. the judge was prepared to allow that to happen, just hand an envelope over to the judge with a name on it, but someone stood up and argued successfully against it. what does that mean, do you think, for the whole court battle going forward? i think it is very interesting. i love this new piece of information that we re hearing. were it up to michael cohen, he would have i love this out of a mob movie, slipped the name across the podium to the judge there. exactly. exactly. but then as you said, this the first amendment attorney for the press was able to convince judge wood, i think it speaks highly of kimba wood that she s making on the ground decisions in this
organization. but all of this somewhat overshadowed by the fact that we learned in court fox news host sean hannity is a client of michael cohen s. now this came out in pretty dramatic fashion in court after the judge insisted cohen s attorneys hand over a list of his clients. there was trump, broidy and an unnamed third client, which is hannity. he says he only sought legal advice from cohen, wasn t an actual client, never paid him, but still admitted to wanting attorney/client privilege. here is what he said on his radio show. i might have handed him ten bucks, i want attorney/client privilege on this, something like that. that can be debated. back to this criminal investigation into cohen s personal and business dealings. it is new to us, the government actually revealed in court it has been working on this case for months. but in some aspects it will now slow down just a bit until all
this is more of a state criminal issue. that s interesting. what else now? i think you bringing up keith davidson is really, really key. i remember this is the lawyer who is involved in both the stormy daniels case, and also karen mcdougal and last week we found out he had a role in the elliott broidy case, the republican fund-raiser who a woman accused him of impregnating her and she was paid to not speak about this affair. you re starting to see in all of these cases a pattern of behavior and potential pattern of certain people being involved in all of these issues. whether it is michael cohen, whether it is keith davidson, and so you start to wonder, people that are close to donald trump, for how many years were they sort of regularly involved in this practice of trying to keep certain people quiet about information that they would find not flattering or not helpful either to their political careers or their public lives. so stormy daniels speaking out there, releasing this
after the campaign, the politicians actually stop campaigning and try to get something done for the country. that doesn t happen anymore. the brand you re talking about, getting past partisan politics, that makes me wonder when it comes to this, where we are right now, do you think we ll ever get to the truth? in this case, you know, i think there is a good chance that there is a process set up here that can get us to the truth. by that i mean the special counsel mueller. some of his work may end up in court. we still believe in the independence of the judiciary in america. that will get to the truth. people will be able to defend maybe he will be able to submit a report to congress. congress will have to decide what to do about it. if it implicates the president, the president will be able to defend himself. but you know what the problem is? where our system is today, nobody is going to accept the
she s going to make a reasoned decision based on the information she has in front of her. the fact is the name of an attorney, the name of a client of an attorney, is not in and of itself privileged information. this is clearly a well briefed and sound ruling. one other thing, page, that shimon reminded us of, something the federal prosecutor had said in the courtroom about the cohen investigation, and i ll read you the quote that shimon put out. it is this is from the prosecutor, it is important to remember why we re here, which is that the federal magistrate judge found probable cause that there was evidence of crimes and mr. cohen s premises and on his devices. when they put it out like that, it makes me wonder why would the president of the united states want to get involved in this battle at all. that s a great question. i m not sure. the amount of effort and energy the president is applying to this case means there is something there that he wants to protect. because if the