Michael Cohen is asking a judge to block the from seeing his communications with Trump
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- Attorneys separately representing President Donald Trump and his longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, argued Friday that the Justice Department should be blocked from reviewing communications between Trump and Cohen.
- Those communications were seized in an FBI raid earlier this week.
- Cohen's lawyers said they wanted to go over the communications and separate those they deem privileged before the DOJ can review them.
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, asked a federal judge on Friday to restrict the Justice Department from reviewing communications between himself and Trump, The New York Times reported.
In addition to documents of Trump's and Cohen's communications, investigators obtained taped recordings of Cohen's conversations with associates, The Washington Post reported. Trump's advisers are said to be worried about whether the recordings touched on any matters related to the president.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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