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President trump's personal attorney, john dowd, is resigning. those who have been following this closely are not surprised. it's been tense the last couple weeks, and it was rumors there would be a shakeup with the president's legal team. i want to bring in legal analyst danny cevalles. the president's team said this was going to be done by year's end. president trump said, if you get into my family business, it is my red line. if you get into my personal finances. from their calculation, they didn't think it'd go beyond that. they said, it was a year and a half long campaign. how long can thi...

About his finances and potential conflicts of interest. his true net worth, how much he donates to charity, if he uses the alternative minimum tax or amt, even the full expense of business holdings. why? we've never seen his taxes. thank you very much. >> again, he could have just remained in business and not accepted, and ivanka could have not accepted, a position at the white house. this is elementary stuff. joining us to untangle this is a former deputy assistant to attorney general, robert drisco driscoll. >> the brooklyn da is looking into the loan to kushner company. why is it noteworthy...

Let's say the brooklyn d.a. would that be within the president's reach to pardon somebody that the brooklyn d.a. is going after? >> no. the president cannot pardon state crimes. there are some, not many, but some limitations on the pardon power. >> jared's business, that's a new york family real estate business. >> exactly. the president could use language that pardons these defendants for any and all crimes they may have committed, or he could make it as narrow as these particular indicted crimes. if he does that, there's the possibility mueller is holding on to other charges. not just the po...

Sector in the world. it's home to a lot that the trump family holds near and dear. well, in that crucial jurisdiction, the new interim u.s. attorney in manhattan will be rudy giuliani's law partner. the law partner of one of the president's closest allies. so, if hypothetically, just spinning this out, if the president and republicans who support the president succeeded in dismantling the robert mueller special counsel investigation, conceivably any evidence that robert mueller turned up for criminal implications for trump or the family businesses in manhattan, the potential for those prosecut...

I don't know why she is doing that. brian: shows you the mind set of somebody who cares about illegal immigrants enough to cut back. >> realistically, what are you doing? i'm not a big fan of hunger strikes. i don't think it gets the point across. at least those people who actually do a hunger strike like gansdy ar grande are taking to eat for four days. brian: i think that's the mediterranean diet. steve: just cutting back. i think somebody over in the brooklyn d.a.'s office, what they are going to do is they realize this is a sanctuary area. and people who are going through the -- who are be...