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>> julie: fox news alert, john dowd, president's lead lawyer and special counsel inquiry has resigned. effective today. fox confirming this isaac wright is a partner at forward solutions strategies inc. and democratic strategist. david avela is the chairman of go pac. thank you both for talking with us. paul ryan will be holding a news conference any moment now. if i have to jump in, we'll get to that. let me start with isaac that we just learned that the lawyer for the special counsel investigation, john dowd has resigned. the president had called for an end to the inquiry, that's number one....

President wasn't really listening to his advice. was listening to the advice of others. and i mean, you know, dowd has been involved in this thing since june of 2016 when he took over from the president's long time personal attorney. and i think it's just -- it's been a long and wearying process. and i think he probably kind of felt that he had enough. >> rick: all right. john roberts at the white house. we'll be following this very closely. thank you. >> thanks, rick. >> julie: as the mueller investigation reaches an extremely critical stage which could, in fact, turn down and turn into an in...

Special counsel but his own legal team, it's not just dowd. he had a legal team inside and outside of the white house who is on president trump's side. it seems that dowd was among the only ones that disagreed with the idea of sitting down. the president has actually recently hired joe and is expected to make more additions outside of his legal team. i mean, isaac, this is a very critical phase in the mueller investigation. and whether or not the president sits down with the special counsel, he needs to have a legal team that's behind him. >> yeah. and attorneys don't want to represent him. it...

The special counsel for an interview with the president or if they were relaxed that somewhat. but as judge napoliatano has said time and time again, you don't want to sit down with a guy that owns a grand jury. mueller owns two. whatever it is that the president's attorney inside the white house decides to do, they need according to legal officials to proceed cautiously of putting the president in front of mueller. >> rick: based on your reporting, you believe this was a difference of opinion between dowd and the president. >> i think it was something -- i don't know that it was a difference ...

Ahead, though. i want to begin with cnn correspondent pamela brown and cnn congressional correspondent manu raju, both of you with us tonight. pamela, a new report in the "new york times" this hour saying the president's lawyers, including john dow, jay sekulow and other advisers are saying don't do it, don't talk to bob mueller. you have been reporting with gloria borger on a lot of this over the past week. what can you tell us tonight? >> that's right, erin, in fact, the president's lawyers have been in the president's ears telling him for a long time he should not testify. the concern, it w...