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When a guy who ended up becoming a national leader said i can grab a woman anywhere and she likes it and then said i made -- i didn't make a mistake, but they asked me would i like to debate this gentleman, and i said no. i said if we're in high school, i would take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him. [ cheering and applause ] >> i shouldn't have said that. but then i was told that was just locker room talk. well i've been in a lot of locker rooms and a pretty damn good athlete. any guy who talked that way was the fattest, ugliest s.o.b. in the room. for real. >> that was the form...

You? your credibility obviously. what trouble does that potentially spell for you? what does it say a white shoe lawyer would be engaging in that kind of tactic? >> i don't know what to make of that tweet. i have to say pled and pleaded. i've seen it both ways. ary we're sticklers on this show. >> this notion that this tweet came out that was problematic for the president in terms of the facts. he comes in afterwards when people start pointing this out, oh, no, it was me. i wouldn't be surprised if the grievance committee of the bar is looking at that. that's very problematic for dowd. you kno...

He's -- when you see him speak publicly, it is reflective of what he's also been saying. i think there is an element to him that -- a tough kid grew up in the streets of scranton, pennsylvania, that liked to take on the rich kid from new york city. but i don't suspect that that kind of dialogue is what people are going to want on the democratic side in 2020. once we actually get there. although it is nice to see somebody take trump on in this way. >> really? >> you tell me. tell me about -- let me ask you both the same question which is -- it seems to me this is joe biden reading the wind and ...

Ashes and make an escape? >> it's also the way he said it over his shoulder as he's going out of the room. i want to do it. he's done -- people remember -- i had two thoughts in my head. he has done it a lot. he's been deposed a lot. he's had a lot of lawsuits. interesting, people would be surprised to learn he's actually pretty careful when he's under oath about what he says. so, i can see why lawyers would be very concerned about putting someone like him under oath. but the record shows that he can be -- he can parse with like more skill than he normally does. but the other thought i have in...

>> yeah. >> mr. digenova and kasowitz have been a favorite of reporters. carol lee, thank you for that. great scoop now. and joining me is another reporter with the earlier scoop of the day, the dowd scoop. it is michael schmidt and a nbc news national security contributor. so michael, today you said in firing dowd the president is looking for some silver bullet that he thinks this -- what is it? what does he think that silver bullet is. >> it is not what he's done since last summer when dowd came on. dowd came on with ty cobb and they sold the president on a strategy of cooperation. the soone...