documents during the raid shows you what poor lawyering donald trump has. if you read the filings back and forth, he makes such ridiculous arguments, the cohen team. and trump was asked or asked to be allowed to intervene and couldn t come up with his own independent arguments. so both the judge and the prosecutors of the southern district did their best not to show contempt. but i think there was some internal eye rolling. they re taking positions that have no basis in fact. they have no idea how things work, like the taint group or the work that works for attorney/client privilege. it s kind of an embarrassment. you d think that somebody out there would want to represent the president of the united states. he s gone through a dozen. he s moving onto legal zoom.
you were asking me. it is a very good thing that they turned it over. it means in viewing it, it was viewed outside the scope of the jurisdiction of the special counsel, so it went to the jurisdiction that has power over the offices of michael cohen. it also is a why to protect, although you have a taint group within the office that will look at these documents to make sure it really protects mueller s investigation from any question of taint from having had any attorney/client privileged documents. so it will protect the investigation of the russia focus by looking at the crimes possibly committed by michael cohen which involve paying off stormy daniels, karen mcdougal, by bank fraud, which may be involved in how he reported to the bank, what the $130,000 loan was.
nothing to do with the primary ones but the separate ones. they ll go through the communications, separate the attorney client privilege information that has nothing to do with what they re investigating. if you have this taint group that investigates, goes through the documents, they separate the information out and flow it neil: if they this is not attorney client neil: if they stumble on other things that are not related to this, at best ancillary to that, that can be open season. oh, sure. if you hear some of the experts legal experts, legal scholars that have come forward saying this is they re eroding the attorney client privilege if we allow this to continue. it will be problematic. neil: where is this going? this is strong tactics. the invasion of his office, michael cohen s offices and home and manafort s before that. this is pretty strong tactics.
and his business deals. that s part of it. we re still unraveling, what exactly the focus is in this investigation. they re zeroing in on his business deals. we re talking about michael cohen. neil: but some of the conversations could be with the president of the united states. could be. that s as a defense attorney and any attorney you speak to, it s so volitive of the attorney client privilege. we re not going to disclose it, take it to the grave and you can have this open flow of information because of it. it s extreme and rarely done. neil: who has access to this stuff? let s say you ve gotten the phone calls and you ve gotten the information a few weeks later, raiding the offices. who has access to that stuff? usually what the investigators do, they make the argument. they have what is called a taint group. taint investigators.