WATCH: Ex-federal prosecutor holds back laughter when told Trump insists he has 'nothing to hide'

Shan Wu, a defense attorney who has previously worked as a federal prosecutor, had to hold back laughter on Tuesday when CNN's Dana Bash described President Donald Trump's legal strategy.

During a discussion of the decision of the president's legal team to waive attorney-client privilege for an audio recording of attorney Michael Cohen and the president talking about paying off a porn star, Wu explained the legal strategy behind such a move.

"I think that's a very strategic move on Giuliani and that side's part," he explained/ "If they litigated the privilege issue, they run the risk that the judge might determine that there's a crime-fraud exception to it. It's now much more of a public debate about what's in the tapes. By doing it this way, they have a better chance of controlling the release."

Bash then pointed out that Trump's rationale behind waiving privilege on the tapes was that he had "nothing to hide" -- and Wu's face immediately turned into a smirk that he managed to get under control just before he explained why he was skeptical of such an argument.

"I think that's strategic spin," he said.

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