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President trump on friday to refine his arguments, this squ for a special master to review these documents. we should note there was already a review team of a sort, a filter team that's going through these documents to see if there are those that fall into the category of attorney/client privilege here. i mean, paul, do you see this in your experience as something that's going to go somewhere? that a special master may indeed be assigned? >> i think this motion has been made way too late in the game. they waited two weeks before they submitted this motion to the court and as you've said, this...

Because your playing against yourself, right. when you offer these alternative theories. i don't believe the judge will buy that he has sovereign immunity because he's not being sued, that means somebody is trying to sue a government official for performing some duty that is within the scope of their official duty. so that dog likely wouldn't hunt. and i don't think the executive privilege claim will fair much better. there was also some reporting that he was going to argue attorney/client privilege. i don't know if he made that argument in the courtroom. but the other tell here, yasmin, is th...

Distraction tactic? >> i think it's probably the latter. the idea of a special master is something that is done usually when it involves attorney/client privilege, if a lawyer's office is searched for example and there may be things relating to other clients. michael cohen's office was subject to a special master review. here, i think one reason is that donald trump is not asserting attorney/client privilege but executive privilege, which that archives letter says belongs to the current executive. donald trump's claims cannot supercede the current executive who wants to see it. i imagine there...

In a certain sense it makes sense, michael cohen, he was an attorney, there may be privileged documents there. here though there's no client privilege, he's asserting executive privilege which is bizarre. as i mentioned a moment ago the branch trying to seize the document goes is the executive branch. the current executive branch is trying to get its own documents back. in this context i think on the merits there's no good argument for a special master here. could trump get one out of deference to him because he is the former president? i don't know, but i don't think there's a strong argument...

Freeze proceedings, go to the judge and get a ruling in the middle of things. they can push it later. i think, quite likely, it forced every single question on him, so that the grand jury could hear him answer every single question. but he either invoked the fifth amendment or attorney client privilege. >> gwen keyes fleming, tell me what you know about how these grand juries work -- whatever fani willis is options if rudy giuliani comes in there and does take the fifth amendment hundreds of times? >> i think you are going to see her team -- again, we will see from the special grand jury's rep...