Sean Hannity on Michael Cohen

Published Apr 16, 2018, 10:34 PM

Michael Cohen has never represented me in any matter. I never retained him, received an invoice, or paid legal fees. I have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which I wanted his input and perspective. I assumed those conversations were confidential, but to be absolutely clear they never involved any matter between me and a third-party. In response to some wild speculation, let me make clear that I did not ask Michael Cohen to bring this proceeding on my behalf, I have no personal interest in this proceeding, and, in fact, asked that my de minimis discussions with Michael Cohen, which dealt almost exclusively about real estate, not be made a part of this proceeding.

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All right, should I pay this off? Um, everybody's going insane here, Linda. You watching all this? Yea, I don't know what you're talking about. There's nothing going on. No, there's nothing going on. We know we bombed Syria and anyway, So New York today had a big, big hearing. Stormy Daniels was in their Stormy Daniels attorney was in there, and I guess that Michael Cohen had to list the people that we're that he's done some work with or whatever. I don't know what the full thing was that actually went on there. So I've known Michael a long long time, and let me be very clear to the media, Michael never represented me in any matter. I never retained him in the in the traditional sense as of 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 question is about which I wanted his input and perspective. And I assume that those conversations were attorney client confidential. Uh. But and the other thing I will I will need to point out to the media that is apparently going insane over this, not one of any issue I ever dealt with Michael Cone on ever ever involved a matter between me and any third party. Now, I have eight attorneys that I use for varying things in my life, and in this particular case, you know, I like to have people that I can run questions by, and Michael very generously would give me his time, and we'd always say okay, attorney client, yeah, good, okay, good, and I'd ask him a legal question and that's it. And um, I don't think that, you know, I don't think that that is that complicated. How did this blow up to be such a big deal. I never had any case with him and anything involved any third party, none whatsoever. Why do you think the media is going insane with us? I mean, let's think about it this way too, Shan. I mean, how many attorneys do we have on the show? I mean, expert upon expert. We bring people on the show that are experts in their field, whether it's someone like Alan Dershowitz, someone like David Shown, people who have represented the A C l use of or liberties, whether we're talking about people who are on our side of the field, you know, and they want to defend certain things that are happening for the GOP whatever it is. We have varying experts on the show, and that's just the way that it is. If you have a question before you go on the air and you want to say, hey, is this the right way to say this or what's the legal least for this? There's nothing wrong with that, And for them to make it seem as if it's something that it's not just shows their desperation to just pull the narrative away from the good things that had attorney client privilege because I asked him for that, and you know, but he never sent me a bill or an invoice or did I actually right? But they want to make it seem like it's something nefarious. There's nothing nefarious. People retain attorneys all the time for all sorts of things, whether it's a simple question and whether it's to find out their their expertise on something, whether it's to find out their advice on something. We definitely, we definitely would say attorney client when I would ask him something in an illegal frame, but I never used it was never used, Michael, in any case that involved any matter between me and a third party. Ever. I'll tell you what I tell you why they're going nuts because they're assuming because I guess he did some type of Um, I guess he did some type of work for some Republican guys. So he's figuring, Oh, he must have did a big settlement case for Hannity. That's not no, that's not whatdn't happened. Ever, it's pretty with any matter between me and any third party that was no. Like, for example, I have all sorts of lawyers, some of which people would know their names. I just think it's hilarious that, you know, I have fifteen million messages flying in and emails flying in even as we speak. Oh, I know I have them too. But by the way, I think that it just shows that Michael was doing his dude diligence and being totally thorough about anybody that he might have had attorney client privilege with. But I mean, in terms of anything of any significance, none, zero. I mean, what else can you say except that, Okay, I never gave him a retainer, never received an invoice, never paid any any fees. You know, I might have handed him ten bucks. I definitely want attorney client privilege on this. Something like that. I requested that privilege with him when I would ask him, well this just came up, what do you think about this, or what do you think about that? I assumed, and obviously he assumed and he kept his word that they were confidential on attorney client. But I never had any matter with him between me and any third party. How is it possible that NBC and ABC goes absolutely and an MSNBC and and CNN goes absolutely off the rails over a simple thing like that. It's really unfortunate. They are just trying to drive this Komy Mueller narrative as far as they can take it, and they'll take anybody down that they can with it. It doesn't the truth is irrelevant anymore, Attorney client privilege irrelevant, None of it matters anymore. Yeah, that's true, very sad. I mean, it's pretty unbelievable. Where are we living? You know what it is, They're just they're always hoping for the worst, and when it relates to any conservative, I'm just always hoping for the worst. They don't want. Yeah, but not for nothing, Sean, in this particular situation, there's just there's nothing there. You know, you asked the guy for advice, or you asked the guy for his opinion and you want his legal expertise, and that's it. Here's here's a question for you. You know me, and how many attorneys that you know of that I have. I have contract attorneys. I have all sorts of attorneys, tons of attorneys, and we use them on a regular basis for your personal for your business, for on air, for TV, for radio. It is infuriating to watch this. It really is all right. I appreciate it. Uh One Shan is a toll free telephone number if you want to be a part of our program.

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