{"id":271376,"date":"2018-04-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=271376"},"modified":"2018-04-19T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T20:27:55","slug":"cnn-lawyer-prompted-disclosure-hannitys-name-cohen-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/04\/18\/cnn-lawyer-prompted-disclosure-hannitys-name-cohen-case\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Lawyer Prompted Disclosure of Hannity\u2019s Name in Cohen Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There\u2019s addendum news to the Sean Hannity fiasco down at Kimba Wood\u2019s courthouse and how his name ended up being made public as a supposed client of Michael Cohen. It turns out that there was an attorney — you know, something I wondered, what\u2019s Stormy Daniels and her Democrat activist lawyer doing down at this hearing anyway? This didn\u2019t involve them.<\/p>\n

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This court hearing was Michael Cohen and his lawyers trying to tell a judge that the government should not be allowed to look at the documents that they produced via the search warrant, that attorney-client privilege was intact. This did not involve Stormy Daniels or her lawyer. There is a microphone set up outside the courtroom. And after what happens in there, Stormy Daniels and her lawyer bop out of there and Stormy Daniels goes on this histrionics hysterical tirade about Trump and how he\u2019s gonna ultimately pay the big price.<\/p>\n

And then the lawyer comes out and says that Cohen\u2019s going down and anybody with Cohen\u2019s going down. That Cohen\u2019s radioactive and gonna take everybody overboard with him. Cohen and his lawyers didn\u2019t speak. But you know who else was in the courtroom? A lawyer by the name of — what is this clown\u2019s name? Robert Balin or Balin. It\u2019s B-a-l-i-n. Robert Balin. Let\u2019s pronounce it. He\u2019s a lawyer for CNN and the New York Times.<\/p>\n

And it is this lawyer who argued to Judge Kimba Wood that that name<\/a>, that third client, that name needs to be made public, and the judge fell for it. In fact, Hannity\u2019s name should not have been mentioned. The public does not have a right to know. All of this is taking place under the auspices of a grand jury, which proceedings are secret.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Even the federal government lawyers know this. The federal government lawyers, the lawyers prosecuting Cohen, should have stood up and said, “We don\u2019t have to release the names. Lawyers do not have to release the names of clients. The public does not have a right to know who a lawyer\u2019s clients are, particularly when a grand jury is in action.”<\/p>\n

Andy McCarthy writing at National Review<\/a>: The prosecutors could easily have handed a subpoena to Cohen\u2019s lawyer, which would have required him to identify Cohen\u2019s clients for the grand jury, but not for the public. Clearly the prosecutors were aware of this. Apparently Judge Wood, however, Judge Kimba Wood was prepared to let this happen.<\/p>\n

The judge allowed Robert Balin, attorney for the New York Times and CNN, to intervene. Balin argued that potential embarrassment to Hannity was not a sufficient reason to withhold the name. The judge was somehow persuaded by this. Without providing Hannity any notice or opportunity to be heard on the matter, she directed his name be disclosed in open court.<\/p>\n

The public has no right to know the names of people who are relevant to an investigation, even if they are suspected of wrongdoing. The public has no right. Kimba Wood did not have to reveal the names just because the lawyer asked for it. The lawyer asked for it. Clearly CNN was seeking an opportunity here to besmirch and impugn a competitor, that would be Hannity.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want another example of hypocrisy? I just told you that the reason Hannity\u2019s name was outed in court was because there was a lawyer for CNN and the New York Times in there who demanded that the name of Hannity as a client of Cohen be revealed. (interruption) I don\u2019t know. No, the media lawyer did not have standing.<\/p>\n

The whole point is that the judge did not have to be persuaded by this. It\u2019s a private proceeding because there\u2019s a grand jury involved. Lawyer clients do not have to be, even if the clients are being prosecuted, particularly if a grand jury is going on, it\u2019s right there in the DOJ manual. The judge goofed up. The judge ended up being persuaded. But that\u2019s not my point.<\/p>\n

The point is it\u2019s a lawyer for CNN and the New York Times, and we\u2019ve had people watching. CNN has not yet disclosed their connection to the Hannity name being revealed at the Cohen legal hearing in court, after two days of lecturing us on how Hannity should have disclosed his connection to Cohen, after two days of CNN people fretting and wringing their hands over the fact that Hannity\u2019s too close to Trump and Hannity\u2019s advising Trump and now Hannity is using Trump\u2019s lawyer.<\/p>\n

\"\"So it\u2019s a CNN lawyer that forced this issue, and CNN has not reported this. We have had people watching. I can\u2019t watch CNN much longer than a minute, but I\u2019m paying people to watch \u2019em out there, and I have been told by my staff earning overtime watching CNN that they have not yet disclosed their connection to Hannity\u2019s name being revealed. It was their lawyer that forced it, even after two days of CNN bellyaching, whining and moaning, lecturing everybody on how Hannity should have disclosed his connection to Cohen.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: In a follow-up to one of our segments yesterday at the open of the program, remember I spent considerable time detailing for you all of the incestuous conflicts that exist in Washington, D.C., between the Drive-By Media and professional political people, conflicts that are not disclosed. I did this in the context of all of these very same people telling Sean Hannity he had a duty to disclose that he had some kind of legal representation deal with Michael Cohen.<\/p>\n

Hannity\u2019s name was outed in court yesterday, and it turns out it was a CNN, New York Times lawyer who pressured the judge to reveal Hannity\u2019s name. And the judge need not have complied. The law does not require the names of clients to be revealed to the public, particularly when grand jury proceedings are part of an investigation. They are, by definition, private. They are, by definition, secure and off-limits. So the judge succumbed to the persuasive powers of the CNN lawyer.<\/p>\n

Now, CNN has not yet reported on their own conflict. CNN\u2019s not telling the story today that their lawyer forced the issue. They haven\u2019t disclosed. Well, in the listing of numerous media people and their conflicts yesterday, I talked about F. Chuck Todd. NBC News moderator, Meet the Press, has his own show on PMSNBC. And I mentioned that his wife is a renowned Democrat activist who made millions of dollars working on the Bernie Sanders campaign.<\/p>\n

And since that time, more has been revealed. NBC and Chuck Todd hid his wife\u2019s donation to Tim Kaine and hid her firm getting millions from the Bernie campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd has a wife who\u2019s active in Democratic Party strategic communications, and sometimes donates to Democrats. In 2012, Kristian Denny Todd contributed $2,500 to Sen. Tim Kaine. Todd never felt any need to disclose this during his three recent Kaine interviews on NBC (August 7, September 18, and October 23).”<\/p>\n

By the way, this story is dated 2016. So this was during the campaign that his wife is working for Bernie and he\u2019s interviewing Tim Kaine, his wife has donated money, and F. Chuck Todd interviewing Tim Kaine does not disclose that his wife is a donor. The name of her company, F. Chuck Todd\u2019s wife\u2019s company, Maverick Mail & Strategies. She founded the firm in 2007 with aides to James Webb, Steve Jarding and Jessica Vanden Berg.<\/p>\n

“They did heavy lifting for openly socialist Bernie Sanders for President this year. Open Secrets shows a bill for $1.992 million made in ten payments to Maverick from January to April. Todd has never disclosed this business relationship in 11 Sanders interviews this year.”<\/p>\n

And yet Hannity is supposed to tell everybody that he\u2019s got some sort of legal arrangement, relationship, whatever, with Cohen. And this stuff with Democrats and their wives and husbands interacting with politicians in a revolving door sense is incestuous, and it is huge, and these conflicts are never mentioned, they are never referenced. And most people are totally unaware of these relationships.<\/p>\n

\"\"In October 2016, Chuck Todd “mocked the idea that political reporters were too close to the Democrats, despite the report that WikiLeaks included the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Todd hosted a dinner party in 2015 honoring Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri.”<\/p>\n

F. Chuck Todd and his wife are hosting Clinton\u2019s campaign assistant for dinner in 2015. The campaign\u2019s already begun. No, no, no, no. I\u2019m not saying none of these things should happen. I\u2019m telling you that they don\u2019t tell anybody that they have these conflicts. These people, in fact, are openly out there trying to tell you that their own political point of view doesn\u2019t affect what they do. They are objective. They are not biased. They tell us it\u2019s only Fox News that\u2019s biased. Talk radio, Fox News, that\u2019s who you can\u2019t trust. We, we are journalists of the First Amendment. And you can\u2019t question us.<\/p>\n

They impugn everybody else\u2019s integrity while denying all of these literal in-bed relationships that they have, the media and Democrats, in a revolving-door-like way. And it does matter, particularly when they seek to hide it while telling us, “It doesn\u2019t matter. Doesn\u2019t affect the way we do our job.” The hell it doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s obvious to anybody paying even a scant bit of attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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