exception eviscerates the attorney/client privilege. to the extent there it is any wheel room in there, if there s fraud being xwhied they re not going to get the coverage of the privilege. the ship may have sailed in terms of legal advice at this point. we mentioned that news yesterday, eugene, about sean hannity, the fox news host who was mystery client. we got that statement. so fox news puts out their statement today and say we didn t know the about this either. we ve reviewed it. we re okay. he s back. no problem on our end. let me run the defense of that. alander witz said he should have disclosed it, but with shanahanity you know what you re getting a guy who is going to trump and the administration no matter it, defend michael cohen no matter what. he should have disclosed it, but no big deal. what s your reaction to that defense? back up for a second. he is client number three,
got pregnant and got an abortion for, and who s a the third client, who s the third client, the judge eventually got the name of the third client in the courtroom today. tell us how that unfolded. before i get to that, lawrence, let me say this. it is such an honor to represent stormy daniels. i mean, you just saw the statement that she gave. i mean, this woman is truly incredible. she s brave. i was so proud to be her lawyer today standing outside that federal courthouse with her fighting against people who are so much more powerful. we re talking about people that are the most powerful individuals on the face of the planet. for her to attend today and make that statement, i ve never been more proud to be an attorney for a client in my entire life, quite honestly. it was a moving moment for me. i asked you this before, and i want to get what you experienced in the courtroom today, but would we be at this
otherwise, you don t even go down this road. there s no reason to even mention sean hannity s name. you don t go down this road. there is one or more documents in what has been collected. this is just what i know as an 18-year trial lawyer who s dealt with a lot of big cases. there is a reason why they want sean hannity s name as a client, and it has everything to do not with what happened today but with the next shoe to drop, which involves a document, an e-mail, a text message, there is something or a tape, because we know michael cohen has taped phone calls with people. he could have taped a phone call with sean hannity. there is something there. michael cohen doesn t just volunteer the name sean hannity as a client unless there is a document that they want to deep six or keep confidential. it doesn t happen. it just doesn t happen. jill, we re going to have to
cohen s lawyers fighting to keep it secret? if it were merely a backyard barbecue discussion over real estate i don t think it was. why would you care and fight so hard to try to keep it secret? well, and why would the president s attorneys and cohen s attorneys actually call him a client? because a client is a person or an organization using the services of a lawyer or other professional person or company. that s a client. and i ll just one last thing, their argument was, when they started this argument, they said they were arguing not just on behalf of michael cohen, but they were arguie ining on behal this mystery client. now sean hannity says, i didn t want them to do that, yet that is what they said. the only theory, gabe and i were talking about this in the green room, that may make some sense here, given hannity s relationship with the president and his background is when the judge ordered cohen to give this list on monday, yesterday, clearly it was relevant to
unusual circumstance but that would make him enough of a client for attorney/client privilege. unless he was engaged in some criminal activity with michael cohen, i don t think anybody cares about that. it doesn t matter. going to your point that you were talking to rachel about, it s true i don t represent you and as far as i know michael avenatti doesn t. but i would say i would be proud to represent you, and there are many people in this case that i wouldn t be. so stormy would be fine as a client, and you would be terrific as a client. michael, what about this, sean hannity, it sounds to me like he came out and basically called michael cohen a liar about this. lawrence, i don t know this for a fact but i m going to take a pretty good guess at something, there is no question in my mind that there is one or more documents with sean hannity s name on it that michael cohen does not want disclosed. there s no question.