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If he were willing to come in and say exactly what donald trump told him. >> dave, elise jordan here. rudy giuliani had to spend a lot of time in georgia yesterday testifying, but you think he probably didnt answer very many questions. what do you think is the best-case scenario for giuliani, given his meddling in the georgia election and the georgia officials who are seeking accountability? >> elise, i think giuliani has the most legal liability stemming from his actions in georgia of anyone in...

Doesnt stand up, either. >> i will try to articulate this other defense the best that i understand it because its a little hard. somehow hes arguing that the documents taken were covered by either executive or attorney/client privilege. >> this one is really a red herring. executive privilege only applies to certain communications between the president and top adviser not to criminal-he lated communications. attorney/client privilege is out of left field that would only apply between trump and h...

Target. now its your time before the grand jury. he can plead the fifth. yes. he can decide attorney/client privilege, but then you have the time question. theres so much that can go on, but lets not forget, rudy giuliani also had his license suspended. >> thats right what does it look like to the grand jury if he takes the fifth. >> grand jury, the district attorney is going to give that grand jury an instruction as to pleading the fifth, and what impacts it can have. >> just to be clear, and k...

Prosecution. broadly speaking federal racketeering laws are very helpful laws if you can charge them, because it allows the prosecutor to sweep in evidence from all over the place. much more evidence than you might otherwise be able to put in. and i believe that the georgia law also would allow some of that evidence from other states to come in, in order to prove the case under georgia law. and that may be very important to prove intent here. >> and, daniel, giulianis attorney has suggested that...

Hes claiming attorney/client privilege. hes trying everything that he can to delay any cooperation here. but how significant is this to you? >> so, i think its very significant, just to be clear, now, were talking about a different investigation. were talking about the grand jury investigation in georgia, as opposed to the federal grand jury investigation that we were just talking about. but, i dont think that rudy giuliani can get out of testifying simply by invoking the attorney/client privile...

We that you understand rudy giuliani was directly involved in that effort as well. he has a lot of involvement. to answer those questions we really dont know whats going to happen. >> lets listen to how giuliani responded. >> when you start turning around lawyers with defendants defending their clients, were starting to live in a fascist state. >> he, sophia, is saying, look, this is attorney/client privilege. to that, you say? >> there is no attorney/client privilege when criminal fraud is invo...

Explain his facts if hes done nothing to memorialize them, nothing to record them. maybe he can find a witness who will attest to his practice, but if the national security adviser, john bolton, was unaware of this policy, there was no policy. so this is something that doesnt surprise me out of donald trump. that he makes up explanations. i suspect well hear more. hes also claiming now this is subject to executive privilege and attorney/client privilege, which is not going to make any difference...

Was done to national security after the fbi found donald trump was keeping classified documents at his mar-a-lago home . republican lawmakers are also seeking more information about the search. cnns jessica schneider has the details. >> reporter: former president trump, now claiming that documents taken from mar-a-lago are protected by executive privilege and attorney client privilege, but the reality here is they still arent his documents to keep. under the presidential records act, they do bel...

Legal search warrant thats not relevant as evidence should be returned back to the owner. we used to do it all the time in the fbi. they still do it. but the documents that are potential evidence in a crime need to stay. classified documents are not going to be attorney/client privilege, top secret documents, sci, secret documents and confidential documents, are not going to be part of trumps lawyers argument. anything else thats not relevant to the crime gets returned. it may not get returned r...

That in fact are attorney/client privilege. but thats where the government will put a filter team in place to weed those documents out and ensure that prosecutors who are actually on the criminal investigation dont see them. so, this is really a claim without any basis at all. >> and, josh, we only have a moment left, some of these documents were labeled top secret, thats one of the miest levels. then top secret and classified. there are 11 sets of classified documents. one of the explanations f...