Page 24 - John Doud News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Paul manafort, jared kushner and visitors to trump tower. usa today is reporting tonight that president trump had indirect contact with special prosecutor robert mueller. the president's chief criminal defense lawyer. john doud said today the president appreciates what bob mueller is doing. he asked me to share that with him and that's what i've done. john doud said that teams with the prosecutors office have been proper. doud said he passed along the president's expressions of appreciation and greetings. those were his words. appreciation and greetings. passed those along to robert mueller. t...

So if there has been a back and forth, does that mean that special prosecutor robert mueller communicated with the president indirectly through attorney dowd? we don't know. john dowd told usa today quote we get along well with bob mueller. our communications have been constructive, the attorney says, but it is important that our communications remain confidential. it is important there not be any break down in that trust. two different bipartisan bills have been introduced in the united states senate to try to protect robert mueller from being fired. an op-ed piece by two university of chicag...

Bridge too far for a majority of republicans on capitol hill. but go back to what attorney dowd said about importance of trust. mutual trust back and forth. what i think they are trying to say is this better stay between us. this white house and this legal team have been frustrated bay lot of leaks. i think one thing that you have to take note of it the news about this investigation that mueller is leading. a lost these things about which way it is going have come out through the media. it seemed like the president's legal team may have been sort of setting a marker saying that if we see more ...

What's happening? >> well, what the president is doing is reshuffling his legal team. you now have a special counsel investigation that's really moving full steam ahead. and i think the feeling inside the white house was that they needed a legal team with more washington experience. more experience in dealing with a special counselc kasowitz who was trump's personal material, he has been taken over by a lawyer with a lot of experience inside the white house, ty cobb. and another attorney, john doud, taking the lead, whole be the president's primary personal attorney.

President. wow. i guess you could google pardoning, but why not talk about it among yourselves? >> i want to ask this question. you have a lot of familiarity with criminal law having been in jail on multiple occasions. >> i beat every case. >> i want to ask you this. the president's, we're six months in, the presidents's these investigations are about two months old and the president is having active discussions according to others about the extent of his pardoning power. his family, his staff, and himself. what does that say to you? >> that he's filled with fear of the investigation. that the...