Hannity was revealed as Michael Cohens mystery client and things got very awkward on Fox News

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AARON RUPAR at Think Progress

https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-sean-hannity-michael-cohen-shep-smith-49f66ee1e60f/

"SNIP.........

Since Hannity is arguably Fox News’ best-known staffer, the story is an awkward one for Trump’s favorite cable network to handle. That awkwardness was apparent in Fox News’ initial report about Monday’s big reveal.


“One of Cohen’s attorneys was asked by the judge to specifically name the other name because they said it wouldn’t fall under attorney-client privilege to withhold that name, and he stood up, and named him as Sean Hannity,” reporter Laura Ingle told Smith.

She then immediately changed the topic.

“So moving on the rest of what is happening today…”


........SNIP"

[ck4829]

1. "Breaking News: The other client was Sea... Hey, look at this hypersexual panda!"

[Hekate]

4. Hehe. They can rerun any number of strange episodes by Tucker. My favorite...

...not that I tune in, but people do post clips -- was his interview with the daughter of a friend of mine who is a Witch in Los Angeles. She was calm, cool, and collected -- and Tucker Puckered. The look on his face was nothing short of priceless.

[underpants]

6. On their website "Stripper Storms Courthouse..."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210501546

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. So did he have to pay someone to STFU about Hannity?

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

3. "Nothing to see here. Move along. These aren't the droids you're looking for..."

[underpants]

5. Shep Smith has a coy dry sense of humor.

“Of course, for sure the elephant in the room is that Sean Hannity is said to have been a third client of Michael Cohen,” Smith said. “There’s a statement at the Hollywood Reporter that says, you know, ‘we’ve been friends a long time, he did some legal work for me.’ Hannity’s producers are working to contact him, since it’s now part of the story, we’ll report on it when we know the rest of it. A lot of people here know his number.”

[Beartracks]

7. "A lot of people here know his number."

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8. The Justice Department says Cohen has more attorneys of his own than he has clients, challenging Coh

What a circus!!!



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-16/trump-worlds-collide-as-cohen-meets-stormy-daniels-in-n-y-court
......‘Three Legal Clients’ (2:34 p.m.)

The Justice Department says Cohen has more attorneys of his own than he has clients, challenging Cohen’s prior claim that the materials swept up in the FBI raids included thousands of documents protected by the attorney-client privilege.

“His letter admits this morning that he has only three legal clients, and this is fatal to their motion,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas McKay.

Most of the evidence seized is on hard drives and other electronic devices and pertains to work he’s done in recent years, McKay said. Anything related to work Cohen did for legal clients would be a small portion of anything seized given how little work he’s done lately as a lawyer, he said.

Cohen’s arguments in a letter to the court earlier Monday -- saying he believed that privileged information had been taken relating to clients he’d represented years ago -- are therefore moot, McKay argued.

“Mr. Cohen might have a legal degree, but this investigation and the search is largely focused on his private business dealings and his private financial dealings,” McKay said (David Voreacos and Chris Dolmetsch)
Hearing Gets Under Way (2:12 p.m.)