reliance on advice of counsel can be a viable defense. think about one of the more ordinary circumstances. my tax lawyer told me i could take this deduction, and it turns out you couldn t take that deduction. it was illegal to take that deduction. you may very well have an advice of counsel defense available to you. i think, implied, there is a word that is implied, in the reliance on advice of counsel defense. it is reliance on advice of a sober council. you know, i think donald trump has an uphill climb here offering a reliance on the advice of counsel with a straight face. here is, i think, a more fundamental problem than rudy giuliani s possible intoxication when he s giving advice to his client. when i saw the first indictment come out, the january 6th indictment, and we learned rudy
lindsey graham was chairman, investigating all of this. leigh holmes he did an honest job of, is there anything to support this? he said, absolutely none. leigh holmes came to my house, and we laid out what the giuliani and other memos said. he said, there s just nothing here, not a matter of less here than giuliani, there is absolutely zero. bob woodward, thank you very much for writing the first draft of these scenes for us. thank you very much for joining us tonight, i really appreciate it. thank you, lawrence. thank you. coming up, rudy giuliani s drunk legal advice, rudolph giuliani, or rudy giuliani? that is next. with a big story to tell.
pretty easy to identify him as one of the sixth unindicted coconspirators, even though he wasn t named. when i saw the georgia indictment come out, where rudy giuliani is a charged coconspirator of donald trump, there is no such thing as reliance on advice of coconspirator defense. i don t say that in a snarky way. if your coconspirator is your council, you really are deprived from arguing we were relying on the advice of counsel because you are being charged as being part of a criminal conspiracy with your council. i think whether drunk or sober, that dog isn t going to hunt.
here s the thing, you know, reliance on advice of counsel can be a viable defense. think about one of the more ordinary circumstances. my tax lawyer told me i could take this deduction, and it turns out you couldn t take that deduction. it was illegal to take that deduction. you may very well have an advice of counsel defense available to you. i think, implied, there is a word that is implied, in the reliance on advice of counsel defense. it is reliance on advice of a sober council. you know, i think donald trump has an uphill climb here offering a reliance on the advice of counsel with a straight face. here is, i think, a more fundamental problem than rudy giuliani s possible intoxication when he s giving advice to his client. when i saw the first indictment come out, the january 6th indictment, and we learned rudy giuliani was one of the unindicted coconspirators, but
giuliani was one of the unindicted coconspirators, but pretty easy to identify him as one of the sixth unindicted coconspirators, even though he wasn t named. when i saw the georgia indictment come out, where rudy giuliani is a charged coconspirator of donald trump, there is no such thing as reliance on advice of coconspirator defense. i don t say that in a snarky way. if your coconspirator is your council, you really are deprived from arguing we were relying on the advice of counsel because you are being charged as being part of a criminal conspiracy with your council. i think whether drunk or sober, that dog isn t going to hunt. if rudolph giuliani takes the witness stand in his own defense, and this trial, is it