From RawStory:

Earlier in the interview, Paul Rosenzweig, former senior counsel to Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel who investigated Clinton during the Whitewater scandal, laughed at the idea that Trump’s legal team believes they can retroactively re-assert executive privilege now that the president has waived it.

“That’s highly unlikely to be successful,” Rosenzweig said.

The lawyer described a “rare circumstance” that an “inadvertent waiver” can be claimed — “If I, for example, send you a privileged e-mail by accident because I typed the wrong name into the ‘to’ line, sometimes you can unring that bell.”

“In all other circumstances,” Rosenzweig explained, “it is almost uniformly the law that a waiver in one circumstance will redound all the way down the line to which the other uses to which the information might be put.”

“You can’t put the egg back in the yoke,” he joked. “You can’t unpeel the banana.”

 

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