devil s advocate, mr. murder, call him what you will the who s who of the criminal world. giovanni destefano is one of the attorneys representing saddam hussein. mr. de stefano, good morning to you. good morning. committed the most serious of criminal offenses. do you believe that? i really don t care. i don t live in a fantasy land.
but then, i received a communication out of the blue from he s a convicted coke smuggler, took 18 years in prison. when i went to see him, recording what he had to say i was considering whether i could serve the rest of my sentence in a french di stefano said as soon as he would receive my case, said he would take me back to france within two weeks [inaudible] his family has raised 10,000 euros, which is sent over and given to giovanni for these legal services. [inaudible] if he was actually a lawyer, they or it could ve been forwarded. when i could say is that there was something in it. when you are [inaudible]
he is going one step further in the gop s attack on businesses. desantis has a new enemy that tampa bay the florida governor vetoed for a new facility this week after the team hosted tweets calling for gun safety loss after last week s school shooting in uvalde, texas. let that sink in. they just posted tweets. this was just weeks after he waged war on disney and took away their tax status for the crime of opposing the don t say gay bill. how can republicans say that they are the party of businesses when they are targeting them like this? we re going to have much more after this. g to have much mor after this coming up at the top of the hour, giovanni destefano is known for representing charles manson and saddam hussein. that was before questions about his identity started to surface. msnbc presents the three parts guy regional series, devil s advocate. the mostly true story of giovanni d. stefano.
the mostly true story of giovanni destefano. the vibes into the investigation that unraveled stefano s true identity, which he kept hidden using schemes, deceptions, and lies. here s a preview. saddam hussein has been captured in his northern iraqi hometown of to quite. he ruled for a decade with torture and terror, so if you re a lawyer, how do you defend him? particularly when you can t even meet with your client? johnny destefano joins us now in this exclusive interview, trent thank you so much sir for joining us on the program. . thank you i actually didn t think it was true. then he was talking about whatever he was doing over there, i was holding the phone going yeah, yeah, i didn t believe it, literally. the question i ve got to ask you. why do you take these cases? i was asked, it was a simple as that. i don t think giovanni ever took a view about whether his client was actually guilty or innocent.
torture, if you are a lawyer, how do you defend saddam hussein? particularly, if you cannot meet with him. giovanni destefano joins us now. thank you for being on the program. thank you. i actually did not think it was true, and then he was talking about whatever he was doing over there. i was holding the phone going, yeah, yeah, yeah. i did not believe, it literally. i gotta ask you, why do you take these cases? i was asked, it was as simple as that. i don t think giovanni ever took a view about whether s client was actually guilty or innocent. i think he firmly believed that there should be a fair trial of the issues. the whole world is not beginning to have its doubts, not only on the legality of the war. but if the war was illegal, why not charge this man? where are the charges? whenever we might think about clients, does not mean that we just hang them or shoot them, we have a draft, we have a process.