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His team expected to hear charges, enter a plea during the initial appearance. The former president is calling for the case to be moved out of washington. He claims it is impossible to get a fair trial in d. C. Fox Team Coverage with Alexis Mcadams on trumps legal strategy. First, go to Griff Jenkins outside the Federal District court In Washington. Griff, what are you expecting out of todays proceedings . Here we go, jillian, mike. We expect things to get more interesting here. We expect the fo...

Hot under the collar, right? the investigation is closing in. there have been 19 individuals and three companies charged with felonies so far. some of trumps own senior officials that have come to the grand jury pleaded guilty and are now cooperating witnesses. now, his own attorney who is paid to defend him doesnt want to defend him anymore. and obviously, based on what come out about his advice, his own attorney was afraid of what donald trump would get caught with if he had to answer question...

It. thats how he wound up a cooperating witness. thats why attorneys dont want to represent the president right now because look at what -- look at what hes doing with mccabe. i mean, hes literally trying to force witness intimidation against the same people who could corroborate comey on a case for obstruction of justice. there were three different people at the f.b.i. who could have corroborated that, they were fired. >> julie: we have someone who lied or leaked information to the press and he...

What the president said months ago on twitter that his goal was -- >> julie: two separate issues! isaac! >> get mccabe out. >> julie: were talking collusion and obstruction of justice. two completely different things. collusion being legal, obstruction of justice is not. if there was collusion but not an obstruction of justice meaning the president did not try to take that information and somehow hold somebody accountable or somehow put pressure on someone to stop an investigation, that would be...

The new f.b.i. director is trying to clear it out. and after eight years of having an obama administration that used the government as a political weapon, it is refreshing to see folks getting in and trying to actually have the government focused on the task thats assigned to do. >> julie: all right, david and isaac. >> one thick we can agree on, trump should answer questions under oath. >> julie: if he wants to talk to the special counsel, that says a lot. he wont be going in there and lying. y...

>> julie: fox news alert, john dowd, presidents lead lawyer and special counsel inquiry has resigned. effective today. fox confirming this isaac wright is a partner at forward solutions strategies inc. and democratic strategist. david avela is the chairman of go pac. thank you both for talking with us. paul ryan will be holding a news conference any moment now. if i have to jump in, well get to that. let me start with isaac that we just learned that the lawyer for the special counsel investigati...

Special counsel but his own legal team, its not just dowd. he had a legal team inside and outside of the white house who is on president trumps side. it seems that dowd was among the only ones that disagreed with the idea of sitting down. the president has actually recently hired joe and is expected to make more additions outside of his legal team. i mean, isaac, this is a very critical phase in the mueller investigation. and whether or not the president sits down with the special counsel, he ne...

>> thats why theres an investigation, david. >> the firing of mccabe, gosh, we now have an f.b.i. director who is actually focused on law enforcement and not using the justice department or any other government job to use as a political weapon. and mccabe finally got -- happened to him what should have happened to lois lerner, valerie jarrett, eric holder, susan rice, james clapper, every one of those obama stooges that use their government job as a political weapon. >> julie: isaac? >> look, da...

>> first of all, youre talking about law enforcement officers. these are men and women that put their lives on the line every day. they strap a gun on and defend this nation. how can you call them cowardly? to say were terrorizing the immigrants? these people were terrorizing immigrant communities. ice removed the people from the community. thats far from terrorizing. were protecting the american public. >> in route to the west coast, the president tweeting californias sanctuary policies are ill...

For the president? >> continuing to pursue the policies he laid out in the state of the union address where 2/3s of americans are support what hes doing with securing the border, getting rid of sanctuary cities, getting rid of chain migration. this rally in california tod today -- ultimately you need the states not to get in the ways of ice. ice is in charge of enforcing policies. having state help is great. you want it. ice is in charge. >> you worry about the optics for democrats? as david lai...