support. okay. joyce, again, as we continue to look live here outside the courthouse. president trump, there are other attorneys on his pay roll. they ve outlined a number of reasons, four reasons, the president should make this decision regarding who gets to look at this evidence. attorney/client privilege must be scrupulously protected. a so-called taint team to review documents. not a common procedure in cases like this. even an appearance of fairness is compromised by the government use of its own attorneys to release attorney/client information and point out the president should be able to conduct initial review of seized material to ensure his privilege is safeguarded. michael cohen s the president s personal attorney. why was it deemed necessary, joyce, for these other attorneys to weigh in on behalf of the president? it s unusual for the president to attempt to intervene in this case at this
tim, is any of this normal protocol for a member of congress, a chairman of an intelligence committee, to go into the white house to view anything this way, the way that nunes did it? not at all. i talked to a lot of folks who have worked on the house intelligence committee. it is extremely unusual to go to the white house to view documents. now it s regular procedure to good to the fbi, to go to the nsa, the cia to review executive branch documents. but it is very, very unusual to get a white house grounds seemingly in the middle of the night in order to meet with sources and review documents. now the chairman s story changes every single time he makes a statement. first it was that trump himself was incidentally connected. then maybe that s not right. and then i m not actually sure exactly what i saw and will have to review the documents. he said he wanted a serious investigation into the extent of russia s ties if there exist any. the extent of russia s ties to the campaign. it