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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 would be a perjury trap. it would be some fishing expedition and would basically set up the president to...

To the "washington post." he says it's interesting as a legal issue technical, from talking about this theory from john dow that the president can't be held accountable for obstruction of justice. but they intend to present a fact based defense, not ha mere legal defense. that should, going on with the statement, resolve things. but we all shall see. that's an interesting statement there from ty cobb because it does reveal a split in the president's legal strategy as to how to deal with the russian investigation. of course, yesterday when john dodd quote hit the headlines there via axios, it s...

Against the president of the united states? is that even possible? >> oh, of course it is. it can be evidence. it goes to state of mind. it can be evidence of obstruction. obviously the white house is now denying that these were his words. but it creates a series of problems for the legal team. i mean, this is a team that's already had trouble. it's like monte python's crack suicide squad. they show up with an oppressive army and die at your feet. we saw this earlier, a trump lawyer making a public admission of withheld documents by the white house. we now see this. the problem is that there's...

Trump's words, and if john doud truly wants to take responsibility, he has to resign from the president's legal team. he's going to be a witness in a trial at some point, and no telling which side he'll be a witness for. but i think now these threats and intimidation raise the specter of political interference in this investigation, much like the saturday night massacre, and i'm going to press the judiciary committee to move forward with legislation protecting the special council. it's bipartisan, and we have five co-sponsors. we have no choice but to move forward. >> it looks like john doud j...

Him, insisting doud is getting out of the tweeting business for good now. he says he basically he says he wouldn't say whether the president signed off on the tweet but generally according to white house officials we speak to the president and his social media director are the only ones who tweet from the president's account. the aide almost always gets approval before he posts anything. a couple of things that are notable as you look at the tweet from the president, he uses the word pled, not pleaded. you would think an attorney would know that's not the case. that raises suspicions for some ...