Page 13 - John Doud News Today

With jay sekulow. i have a relationship with john doud. and im going to work with john mccann and other people and make sure were handling ourselves in the most appropriate way possible. thats the bestic say about that. >> and so then the follow-up was communications problems versus policy and political problems. >> yeah. >> and the way you see that in the context of this presidency. >> well, long ago teddy roosevelt said that the presidency is a bully pulpit that the president has a great gift ...

Notoriety. >> the president uses familiar refrains and the twitters and the media doesnt like it when he tweets. in fact, its his staff that doesnt like it when he tweets. especially about the russia investigation. theyre worried he has been advised behind closed doors. not to put these kind of message out on twitter. these all -- all these messages could be swept up by special counsel robert mueller as he looks into whether the president obstructed justice. the more he puts it out there that he...

That has been a pattern with donald trump for his entire life. the theory that i like to think about is how does he get out of this bind hes in, this investigation. he has the power to pardon. so could he not pardon himself? >> he could have done that for flynn in the first place. >> would he really go to the supreme court with his assertion of the right to pardon himself of all crimes. >> he love toss go to court. >> any president that has served so far -- >> did you hear that from the white ho...

You to put new prison. >> within the last several minutes we confirmed that the president fired another major legal heavy hitter and team john doud who has legal team we confirmed that in the last several minutes and i would point out it is one week ago and the president told reporters he would let us all know shortly whether he has recordings of conversations and we did not receive an answer all week long. we should make that very clear and source inside councils office today told us wolf there...

Attempt to try to convince mueller that hes got to let trump out of this interview or do an interview where the president gets to answer all the questions ahead of time in a script, they reenact the mock interview that john doud did in the white house. and john doud plays robert mueller and jay sekulow plays president trump and they go back and forth and try to show mueller that the president is simply incapable of telling the truth and woodward reports that at the end they say, you see, this is...

Obviously, of what mr. mcgahn testified to. >> how do you say that good sense? have you debriefed him? >> no, but mr. doud has a good sense of it. he talked to them at the time. >> so you dont know what mr. mcgahn testified to 100%? >> i think through john doud we have a good sense of it. john doud said yesterday that mcgahn was a strong witness for the president. i dont need to know much more about that. >> but as white house counsel mcgahn has repeatedly made clear his role is to protect the p...

With comeys assessment that trump was not under investigation. the general counsel actually thought that trump, because he was in charge of the campaign, and they were looking at the campaign, was part of the investigation. >> theres been an ongoing obsession with him. whether he was part of the russia investigation and nobody has been able to tell him definitively, youre not part of the investigation. but of course, at the same time they dont have the smoking gun to suggest he is at the center ...

Latest updates on this topic.

The only member of the inner circle that held him in such hoe regard. john kelly said were in crazy town. chief economic adviser gary cohen pulled things off the presidents desk because of national security concerns. as for this presidents view of the rule of law, he is said to have lambasted jeff sessions as quote, mentally retarded, unquote. in an shoe published moments ago, the president questioned woodwards credibility. john kelly called the book total bs, john doud is pushing back as well. ...

Like this, with the ball the guy walking up and tagging him. you talk to any lawyer in your home town, that you trust, thats nonpartisan and ask if jeff sessions had any choice but to recuse himself. the answer clearly -- no. he had no choice. and joe digenova and donald j. trump beclowning themselves and making a mockery of ethics and the rule of law. >> look its interesting that both sessions and rosenstein, whatever else sessions has done on immigration, on criminal sentencing things that we ...