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EXCLUSIVE: Giuliani calls for Sessions to 'step in' on Cohen investigation | TheHill

posted onMay 4, 2018
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Article snippet: Rudy Giuliani called for Attorney General MORE to intervene in the Michael Cohen case and put the people behind the probe “under investigation” in a phone call with The Hill on Thursday.  “I am waiting for the Attorney General to step in, in his role as defender of justice, and put these people under investigation,” Giuliani said. He was reacting to an NBC News report that had initially stated phones belonging to Cohen, MORE’s longtime personal attorney, had been tapped by investigators.  The former New York City mayor argued that if the reported wiretapping of Cohen were true — and he emphasized he was not sure that it was — it would be a blatant transgression of attorney-client privilege. Giuliani, who joined President Trump’s personal legal team about two weeks ago, predicted that Trump would share his anger at the matter, though he said he had not yet spoken to the president about it.  When he does so, Giuliani predicted, “He is going to say to me, ‘Isn’t there an attorney-client privilege?’ And I am going to tell him, ‘No, the Department of Justice seems to want to trample all over the Constitution of the United States.’ ” Giuliani’s explosive comments were made, however, before NBC News issued a significant correction to its story. The news organization changed its original piece to reflect that "three senior U.S. officials" were disputing the idea that a wiretap was placed on Cohen's phones. Those officials said, according to NBC, that "the monitoring of ... Link to the full article to read more

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