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>> right. >> it seems odd to invoke national, to carols point. let me say why i think its okay. its okay for attorneys to enter into a joint agreement. if were all under investigation, we ban together and exchange information, perfectly okay. the law recognizes that, prosecutors are okay with it, defense attorneys are okay. however, say someone leaves that joint agreement, then you give notice to the people in that agreement and you cut off communications. so dowd, knowing that flynn is about to...

He could lie about things that dont matter and thats not going to get trump prosecuted for perjury. >> because its not a material -- >> exactly. it needs to be material. so dowd, by saying that, by saying youre going to end up in an orange jump suit or some version of that, hes saying trump is going to lie about things that have a real impact on the investigation. and what that tells me is that he thinks trump knows things that would have an effect on the investigation. so this whole claim of tr...

That seems to be -- >> hes in there with phone calls to his client telling bob woodward the words in quotation marks that were said on phone calls. >> theres no question. he should not be doing that. its a violation of the attorney/client privilege and a number of ethical rules. i dont know if he just doesnt care or it seems like what dowd wants to do is sort of get his story out there about why it is that he left the team. it wasnt because, you know, as you said, he thinks hes guilty of collusi...

Jeffrey, let me go to you. one of these scenes in this book according to what jamie has is, you know, theres this john dowd is convinced that trump is going to perjure himself if he testifies in front of the special counsel bob mueller. he does this mock interview with the president which according to woodward the president fails this. still, though, the president wants to testify and at some point he says, what, do you think i was struggling? he was because he failed the test. so dowd and jay s...

My most striking one is the example that you used -- >> the great cohen moment, the swiping of the memo. >> the swiping and the -- >> back and forth with dowd and secolo. >> then when they take it to mueller essentially saying he is a liar, we cant bring him to you mueller then says i need the presidents testimony. what was his intent on comey? i want to see if there was corrupt intent. what does that tell you about the special counsel? is that obstruction? >> well, it tells you what he is looki...

Consideration. >> the president is happy with jay sekulow and working at the white house -- >> so he has one of the three. so dowd and ty cobb are gone -- so when he was saying he was happy with his lawyers plural, he was talking about jay sekulow, not the two out the door. >> i think ty cobb is retiring, he has a long and distinguished career and that is perfectly available. he is not leaving the door today. at the end of the month so hes giving 30 days notice and still on the team and theyll c...

Unsatisfied. he told mr. dowd in early march that he needed to question the president directly to determine whether the president had criminal intent when he fired the fbi director james comey. but mr. dowd held firm. and then investigators for mueller agreed days later to share during a meeting with mr. dowd the questions they wanted to ask mr. trump." so dowd is like you dont need to interview him. muellers like yes, we do. theyre negotiating back and forth and finally at a meeting with dowd a...

>> lot of questions about the story we were just discussing before the white house briefing, scoop in the "new york times," john dowd, the now no longer sort of chief attorney on team trump. paul manafort and michael flynn as the special counsel as the bob mueller team was honing in on them. so dowd, in a statement to the ti times denying any of this. and you heard sarah sanders over and over and over, i refer you to ty cobb, another attorney here, and his statement. mark preston is with me. you...

The president has been hammering dowd who has led the legal team because he feels that he was misled, that his legal team was telling him hold your fire, this is going to be over, whether it was thanksgiving and then it was christmas and then it was early in the new year, et cetera. they got an indication from mueller as they were trying to negotiate over the presidents testimony about where mueller was going in his questions. its very clear its not over. the president, who originally wanted to ...

The rest of the legal team, i would say, is quite upset at wait dowd resigned, because it kind of leaves them without a lead attorney and negotiations that theyre smack-dab in the middle of. so dowd, i think, felt that he could no longer represent the president because he felt his advice was being ignored. and now i asked somebody familiar with whats going on inside the legal team, so who is running the legal strategy now? and this person said to me, the president. >> im not surprised by that. l...