Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Trump and Giuliani are now telling Cohen he has to shut up because of attorney client privilege about everything. So that's yet another barrier to get past. Unfortunately.

 

[Patooka]

Trump and Giuliani are now telling Cohen he has to shut up because of attorney client privilege about everything. So that's yet another barrier to get past. Unfortunately.

Around my parts I'm pretty sure that's called perverting the course of justice. Not sure why you guys simply call it "Monday".

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Trump and Giuliani are now telling Cohen he has to shut up because of attorney client privilege about everything. So that's yet another barrier to get past. Unfortunately.

Wasn't that already waived?

President Trump's legal team waived attorney-client privilege on the recording longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen made, a source with knowledge confirms to CBS News. Cohen secretly recorded a conversation he had with Mr. Trump shortly before the 2016 presidential election in which they discussed a possible payment to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who alleges she had an affair with Mr. Trump in 2006.

The recording was seized in the FBI raids on Cohen's home and office in April, as a part of the federal investigation into Cohen's business dealings.

The source with knowledge tells CBS News' Sara Cook that the special master in Cohen's case, Barbara Jones, determined the tape fell under attorney-client privilege, but Mr. Trump waived that privilege. The source with knowledge also said Cohen's recording of the tape was not illegal, as New York is a one-party consent state for recordings.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Wasn't that already waived?

It's part of that 47 dimension chess they're playing, trying to have it both ways.

Waive the privilege for their benefit, presumably so Cohen can't use it as a bargaining chip, then demand Cohen observe the privilege, once more for their benefit, to shut Cohen up.

And sets the play up, later, for crying to the media again about how 'attn./Client privilege is dead, now ...' And how Trump can't get a fair trial because witches.