A judge in federal court today. Stormy daniels was there, but that was not the bombshell to have the day. No, that honor goes to what we learned about Michael Cohens clients. Cohen claiming in federal court today that he has three legal clients. One, two, three. Just three. We know one is President Donald Trump, because he says so himself. I just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys, good man. We know another is top rnc donor, and until last week, top rnc official, eliot brody. Former, because on his behalf, cohen negotiated a 1. 6 million payment to a pregnant playmate. And today cohen claimed that there is this third client. Cohen trying to protect the d t identity of this person. His lawyer telling the judge his name should be protected because of Attorney Client privilege and that person would be embarrassed to be outed as a Michael Cohen client. The judge said, too bad. Put it out there. So there he is, sean hannity. The same sean hannity who raced to can he knohens defense justk ago, the day fbi raided cohens home and office. Weve now entered a dangerous new phase, and theres no turning back from this. It has been clear, as i have been warning, mueller is out to get the president and it appears at any cost. Heres what happened, upon referral from special counselor robert mueller, the fbi has raided the office, the home, and the hotel room of Michael Cohen, the personal attorney of the president of the United States. Keep in mind, cohen was never part of the Trump Administration or the trump campaign. This is now officially an allhandsondeck effort to totally malign and if possible, impeach the president of the United States. No disclosure there about any relationship with cohen. In fact, today hannity says, guys, what is all this about, because theres just nothing to see. Michael never represented me in any matter. I never retained him in the traditional sense, as retaining a lawyer. I never received an invoice from michael. I never paid legal fees to michael. But i have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which i wanted his input and perspective. Brief discussions. Okay, that just does not fit with chones story, right . Which is that this relationship should be protected by Attorney Client privilege, because hannity was one of just three legal clients. Again, one of whom is the president of the United States. So, its a pretty impressive, Important Group of three, right . Cohen is the kind of lawyer who deals with problems. His own attorney told me hes the kind of lawyer you call at 3 00 a. M. With a problem. Believe me, Michael Cohen got calls at 3 00 in the morning, michael and i would be at dinner, the boss would be calling him all the time. Im sure. Now, of course, we know one area of cohens expertise was paying off women who allegedly slept with two of his clients, including Stormy Daniels allegedly with President Trump and an unnamed playmate with eliot brody. Theres no reason to think that is the issue with hannity, but that track record makes it clear why hannity today immediately said his interactions with Michael Cohen dealt, quote, almost exclusively about real estate. And said their discussions were, quote, de minimis. All right, heres what we know. Hannity and cohen go way back. This is a tweet from sean hannity. He sent it out himself. Its him in casual attire with cohen, using the hashtag, trump phenomenon. That goes back to august 2015. And at the president s inauguration, hannity said he and cohen have been, quote, friends for a long time. The bottom line is this. We need to know the full nature of Sean Hannitys nature with cohen, because hannity is Donald Trumps single greatest advocate on the mass air waves. I dont hold back that ill be voting for donald trump in november. For all the accomplishments of the president , keeping his promise, checking off his list. Take a look on your screen right there. Here is a list of President Trumps accomplishments for 2017. He said its a list too long for him to even read. And that is a praise that President Donald Trump generously returns. Tweeting in part, quote, big show tonight on sean hannity, that was just last week. The president obviously already well aware of happnnitys show rundown that night, which is when hannity slammed bob mueller as part of a, quote, crime family. In fact, the president regularly shows his love to hannity. I will say this, you have been so great. I am very proud of you. And hannity how good is hannity, do you say . How good is hannity . And hes a great guy. And hes an honest guy. Hannity, whos a really nice guy, too. Sean hannity is not a journalist. He is an advocate. His love love relationship with the president is not news. Obviously, theyre open about it. But the president s personal attorney is now under criminal investigation and he claims today that sean hannity is one of only three legal clients. If the conversations between hannity and cohen were, as hannity claimed today, so, quote, de minimis, why would cohen describe hannity today as one of only three clients and seek Attorney Client privilege to protect those conversations . That is the big question tonight. What is the nature of this relationship . And why does Michael Cohen want to keep it private . Lets go to the courthouse where Brynn Gingras is outfront. Brynn, unexpected drama in the courtroom today spaen h. Sean hannity. Reporter yeah, and it was very dramatic fashion in which his name came out in the courtroom. Its not like the judge asked for the name and the lawyer said, sean happen ty. What happened leading up to that was actually very, very minutes long. As youve already laid out for your viewers, cohens attorney said this would be embarrassing to disclose this third clients name. At one point, they even offered to the judge to hand her a note, a sealed note with Sean Hannitys name on it and the judge wasnt accepting any of that. And thats why Sean Hannitys name eventually came out. It certainly does beg this question of why did they take such care and concern to conceal Sean Hannitys name, certainly in the aftereffect of sean hannity saying he only asked the for legal advice from Michael Cohen. But getting back to exactly why we were here today. Of course, thats because of all the documents that were seized in that fbi raid last week, of Michael Cohens home and his office and his hotel room. And essentially, the judge made somewhat of a ruling today, and that ruling was really in favor of all parties involved. The u. S. Attorneys office is now going to have to hand over all of those documents to Michael Cohens attorneys, and theyre told by the judge to sift through them, see what the volume is of those that are protected by Attorney Client privilege. And the prosecutors are going to do the same. Theyre going to reconvene and determine that volume and how this now moves forward. Really, not a major ruling today. The big drama was certainly around Sean Hannitys name. Lets go outfront now to david gergen, former adviser to four president s, including nixon and clinton, and john avlon, editor in chief of the daily beast. Brynn describes the drama around this. Its hard to describe, in a world where one can no longer be surprised, how surprising this moment was for those of us today. Cohen is trying very hard to keep any communications he had with sean hannity private, claiming Attorney Client privilege. It was a spit take. The last name we expected to hear was sean hannity. We know theyre all really tight, but we never imagined the president s personal fixer was also representing his number one advocate on tv. It just its the kind of stuff if it was in a script or a novel, it would get thrown out for being implausible. But its there. Now hannity is saying, he was never my attorney. That creates additional problems for Michael Cohen, who claimed Attorney Client privilege going forward. Heres the thing. The two stories just do not square. Michael cohen saying, ive only got three clients. One of thems the president. One of them is the other guy with the playmate playoff. And the other is sean hannity and i claim Attorney Client privilege. And sean hannity is going, oh, ste it was a couple of real estate transactions. Cohens attorney claiming that it would be embarrassing to have the name revealed, it is embarrassing and suspicious and incestuous. And a lot of people arguing, hes dealing with a mob scene, with a mob. People who have a network of relationships and sean hannity has got to get himself out of that situation so hes not attached to it. I think fox has a real responsibility to get to the bottom of this and go public. I mean, this is the thing. Laura, again, it just doesnt it doesnt make sense. If theres nothing to hide, why is Michael Cohen trying so hard to hide something . Well, we said its very embarrassing. Perhaps he meant, it will be very embarrassing to confirm that this is actually not my client and i needed to have a third name to have the appearance they had a more credible client list. You see, normally the accidental client is a lawyers worst nightmare. Somebody who thinks that you are my client and i dont think were actually in a relationship. Well, here you have the opposite puch an attorney who thinks we actually had an Attorney Client relationship. Why thats so important, erin, because the only person who can control the disclosure of information is the client. If the attorney wants to tell everything they know and the client says no, they cant do it. But the reverse happens as well. And here you have hannity saying, oh, he wasnt my attorney. Say whatever you want and youve got cohen saying, please, please say that we are an Attorney Client, because i need to protect this information. Its very suspicious. I dont understand, though. If one of your clients is the president of the United States, why does it look any better to have two or three . It doesnt i got one and its the big guy, okay. Its as big as they get. But the problem is the second one we now know is an rnc donor, former member of the finance committee, who he paid off a playmate for, 1. 6 million. This is not a lawyer you call for real estate advice. This guy is a fixer. And there is no attorney consigliere privilege, as david wrote last week. This is a problem for cohen and the ability to keep these documents private. Sean hannitys story has been shifting throughout the day. At first he was arguing, i never sought Attorney Client privilege, just assumed it, but later on he said, aggressively sought it. I wanted to make sure my conversations were him were protected. So this wasnt just casual real estate, should i invest in a condo somewhere. There was something more serious. And that opens the question, youre talking about the president s singlemost powerful and most vocal advocate in mainstream media. You know, its so important, erin, to think about that context. Essentially it tells you that there may be somebody who was a conduit for false information, which is a very big concern for the American People and also one that raises other issues for an underlying investigation. Remember, in order to get that search warrant in the first place, a judge had to be persuaded that there was enough there to show there was not going to be privilege at the end of that tunnel. That there was enough information and evidence to suggest that there was something nefarious or criminal going on. So if a judge is asking Michael Cohens attorneys, please explain to me why this should be out of the grasp of the government who already got a warrant against you, you have to come with something more than a hope and a prayer there was a conversation over cocktails. And its so important to talk about the person you were talking about, unlike an attorney who is bound by the ethical obligations. You had Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels case talking about, did he involve donald trump and if he did not, was it a violation . You yourself named sean hannity as somebody who was not a journalist and wouldnt be bound by the same ethical constraints as an attorney or a journalist. And the bottom line is it opens the door. It opens the door to what was there . What were these conversations . What was this information that was gicven to sean hannity . What was he doing with it, and what was the nature to this . The an, we dont know, but i will be shocked if its casual real estate advice. Thats not what Michael Cohen specializes in. And that information, especially if he has been recording conversations, as has been reported, that could be explosive, because we know theyre sharing talking points. What else have they been sharing. I dont think we know for certain that theres anything really illegal or inappropriate, but theres something terribly suspicious and it does look incestuous and fox and hannity have to come clean on exactly what its all about. You just wouldnt put him down as a third client unless there was something there, period. All right, thank you all very much. Next, more on the breaking news. A judge rejecting michael coh cohens attempt to block prosecutors starting to go through everything they seized from his home and office. Just how damaging could the case be to trump . 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