lawyers raised the sort of bizarre notion to me that a judge or judges themselves should go through the documents and review them. which seemed like a strange proposal for a bunch of reasons. and here's judge wilkins responding to that, basically saying we can reach the question before we get to that. take a listen. >> i don't see anything -- i'm sorry, counselor, but there's nothing in the statute that says that the privilege determination has to be made on a document by document basis. what we have in our precedent and, you know, the court didn't listen to the tapes before they determined that privilege had been waived in nixon. they didn't have to listen to the tapes to determine whether -- whether, you know, there was i aprivilege or the privilege was overcome. they knew basically what was the subject matter discussed in the tapes and they knew what the legislative or the purpose was for the grand jury to have the