Trumps motion for a special master should be granted
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome back to the Dershow, the conflict between the Biden administration and former |
| 0:07.3 | president Trump, future presidential candidate Trump possibly, is quickly coming to a head. |
| 0:14.7 | Trump's lawyers filed a very interesting motion today. |
| 0:19.6 | It was a motion to have the court appoint a special examiner, a special master who could |
| 0:29.6 | go through all of the papers that were seized in the search and determine whether any of |
| 0:35.4 | them are privileged, are covered by the executive privilege, the lawyer client privilege, the |
| 0:42.4 | fifth amendment privilege, or any other privileges. |
| 0:46.0 | Now, the Biden administration has taken the constitutionally strange position, one |
| 0:52.8 | that I think is indefensible, that the incumbent president, the sitting president, namely |
| 1:00.2 | president Biden, can waive the executive privilege of the former president and possibly |
| 1:07.5 | future president. |
| 1:10.2 | This makes no sense at all, constitutionally it makes no sense politically, it makes no |
| 1:14.8 | sense logically. |
| 1:16.7 | If there is an executive privilege, it means that the president has the right to confer |
| 1:22.6 | with his cabinet members, with his chief of staff, with his legal counsel, with any |
| 1:28.2 | advisors in president Trump's case, with me, obviously he sold advice from me on the |
| 1:35.4 | Middle East and on Israel and Iran and other situations like that, the executive privilege |
| 1:42.4 | which derives from Article 2 of the Constitution basically says that a president can with full |
| 1:49.4 | confidence in the confidentiality of his communication and seek advice from all of those |
| 1:54.3 | people. |
| 1:55.3 | Now, comes along, the Biden administration apparently, apparently this comes from a letter that's |
| 2:00.2 | been disclosed, it's not 100 percent clear, but according to news reports, it seems likely |
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