end quote. trump continued according to fox digital, we had a lot of papers, a lot of papers stacked up. in fact, you hear the rustle of the paper. there s donald trump s most recent defense. gentlemen, thank you very much. joining me now is florida defense attorney, john sail. he served on the watergate team. turned down the opportunity to join donald trump s defense team last year. john, good to have you. nice to be here. if you were donald trump s defense team now and you heard that tape, what would be the argument you would make in court about it? whatever argument i d make in court donald trump makes it harder and harder every time he goes on television. the government has filed a motion to 84 witnesses under seal. i think they need to amend that and make it 85 because now donald trump has become the best witness the government has, jack smith has, in order to likely
my boxes. then he says well what if he, what happens if we just don t respond or don t play ball with them. would it be better if we told them we don t have anything here. isn t it better if there are no documents? that is paragraph 54. exactly what neil was referring to when we were talking about why attorney client privilege was pierced. joining us now, john sail, assistant special prosecutor on the watergate team. he turned down the opportunity to join trump s defense team last year. thank you for being with us. from paragraph 54 talking about donald trump referring to his boxes and talking to his lawyer. i don t want anybody seeing this them. what happens if we just don t respond at all or play ball.
team on good terms with the former president. he released a statement announcing his departure. joining us now, john sail and attorney for palm beach county, florida, dav good morning to you both. john, i ll begin with you. he says the right things, that he left on good terms. there was talk that after hearing donald trump at last week s cnn town hall talk so openly, saying i took what i took about the classified documents, that he no longer could defend him. what s your reading of this move? mr. palatore hasn t said anything publicly critical of donald trump. that would be unethical. we can speculate why he left, but i don t think it matters. what i was thinking when i was coming on this morning is, if we went to hollywood with this
i m not criticizing them. for example, with the documents, neither side, neither the government nor trump side, knows what s there. they are using a filter team. the government, in order to review the documents, for privilege. various privileges. attorney/client, executive privilege. i would immediately have gone to court and asked for the appointment of a special master. i would not trust the government to be doing that. let me slow you down. you can continue. you are making an interesting legal point, which, again, the law, as you emphasized is different from one s political or personal feelings about the various players involved. you are saying that given your experience in this field, you think the right adept legal move would have been to try to get the court a judge to force more independence on that situation? the average person and the average search complaint isn t just going to get a special master. you think based on your experience, a judge might look
waiving the way redactions are being done? we maintain we haven t waived our right. that s maintained. we need to wait and see. well, is that a job that our next guest wants? apparently not. he turned down exactly answering those kinds of questions, which can be difficult if you represent trump. he says in public, this was unconstitutional, but then in court they don t lift a finger. let s get into it. we have a former watergate prosecutor and former assistant u.s. attorney, john sail. he represented mr. giuliani in the congressional probe regarding ukraine. he has confirmed, without exposing my client confidences, that he passed on the request to represent donald trump here. welcome. thank you. nice to be with you. yes, sir. why did you pass? without violating confidences, i can only speak to my own experience. my own experience was, it was a