Michael Cohen goes to court.

Starbucks faces down a boycott, and did Tom Brady threaten Stormy Daniels?

Or what the heck is?

This is the Bench-Repiro show.

So the reality TV show simulation in which we have been living continues to pace today.

There's a lot of big news coming out from various and sundry areas of American life, including the Michael Cohn investigation, the Starbucks boycott. We have a lot to get to. First, I want to say thank you to our sponsors of Bertic Gold. So do you feel uncertain about the future? Because if not, then you haven't been watching the news lately. Well, one of the reasons that you should put a little bit of your money into precious metals is that sort of uncertainty. If you don't want the government manipulating the currency,

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birchgold.com slash Ben to get that free information kit. Birchgold.com slash Ben. Use that slash Ben so they know we sent you. Okay. So the big story yesterday, of course, was that Michael Cohen's lawyers went to court to try and get access to the information that the FBI had seized from Michael Cohn last week.

So as you recall last week, the FBI raided Michael Cohn's office. Michael Cohn, of course,

is the personal lawyer to President Trump, and they raided his office supposedly on the basis of

some sort of violation of federal law by Michael Cohn that would have violated the attorney-client

privilege. So what allows them to raid an attorney's office? Well, there is a crime fraud exception to attorney-client privilege. So if I am your lawyer, and we have privilege, right, that means that typically the FBI is not allowed to search those documents or look at those documents. However, if we are combining to work in illegal fashion, if you and I have decided that we are going to commit conspiracy to

defraud the government, for example, then attorney-client privilege does not hold. You have to show good evidence. You have to go in front of a magistrate judge. You have to get that approved for a warrant by the DOJ. That's exactly what happens. So they seize all of this material for Michael Cohn's office. And they don't just get a little bit of the material. They take everything. So now Michael Cohn's lawyers go to court and they say we would like access to all of that information. We want to know

exactly what it was that was taken from Michael Cohn's office so that we can go through and make an argument about what it is the FBI should see and what the FBI should not see. They wanted a special master appointed a special master as a person who is not related to the case who can actually look through all the documents and determine what ought to remain privileged and what ought not to remain privileged. And yesterday, the court ruled sort of in Cohn's favor, sort of not in Cohn's favor. According to the Associated Press, a judge considering how to handle records seized in an FBI raid on President Trump's personal attorney, wrapped up a hearing into the matter Monday without making a final decision. U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood, who has been linked to a bunch of sort of lefties, including

George Soros. But again, I think that's kind of weak. I don't think that Kimba Wood is doing the

satanic work of George Soros or anything stupid like that. She says that she trusts prosecutors

to review the materials, but may allow a neutral third party to weigh in as well.

Lawyers for Trump attorney Michael Cohn, according to the AP, had asked for the appointment of a so-called special master to review the material and make sure nothing protected by attorney-client privilege winds up at the hands of investigators. She was saying, well, normally there's what is called a taint team and then there's a clean team. Of course, we're going to end up in a situation with Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump where a taint team was called.

But a taint team actually is

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