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Retired from his law firms. a lot of these lawyers sort of site conflicts. but talking to a legal expert and some people in the law community, these are not the traditional conflicts where they have another client that might be at odds with this client or someone related to the case where they can't take it. the conflicts, to be clear, are that are partners this their law firms don't want them going in and representing this president. but, again, they are -- they've reached out to him. that doesn't mean ease calmihe' coming on board. there are these conflicts where law firms don't want to join...

Hearing for mike pompeo kicks off in two hours. president trump's nominee to replace rech tillerson as secretary of state is going to need to get one depend vote to be confirmed. it happen? cnn's manu raju live in the hearing room. we got a wager going? >> he's thinking. >> he's tight with his money. >> reporter: i would expect a pretty aggravation line of questioning from depends on this committee, probably far more aggressive than what we saw last year when rex tillerson came before this same committee in large measure because mike pompeo as a cia director has been in the middle of key decis...

State-of-the-art mental equipment. does this president have, shown evidence to you, peter, that he's capable of that kind of separation of his true duties as commander in chief from his political situation? >> well, he seems to marinate in his frustrations and his aggravation over this particular investigation and he lets it come out in a way that bill clinton tried not to and other presidents under pressure from investigations tried not to. of the president doesn't mind sharing his outrage over what he sees as a witch hunt with the word and he lashes out. he's flailing to some extent and he's...

This, and that would suggest why maybe the president's having trouble getting other lawyers to join the team, some other high profile washington attorneys. >> well, how about the fact donald trump is the client from hell. knows more laws than his lawyers, doesn't listen to his lawyers and fires his lawyers and stiffs his lawyers and doesn't pay him. other than that, a great client. the lawyers are not stupid. they know what they are getting into, and, yes, there's tremendous appeal to being the president's lawyer, but, you know, ask john dowd. ask, you know, mr. tillerson what it's like to wor...

Convincing the nation this is really important and needed to be done. >> there's other polling that suggests people are less excited about shutting down the government over the daca issue. it's aggravation of the people who were polled. what you see there for certain is that the american public understands that republicans are in control of the white house and control of the senate and control of the house. whether they place that blame at the feet of the white house or congress, you see republicans aligned all the same. an argument made earlier today from the white house podium. one said you ...