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Questions about whether he tried to fire the special counsel whos investigating alleged collusion with the russians as well as possible obstruction of justice. Chief white house correspondents john roberts is in davos, switzerland with the good, the bad, and the ugly for the president. Hello, john. Chris, good evening. The question of whether the president actually tried to take of the the special counsel is an important one. Which was the president discussing possible optioning or was there an attempt to obstruct justice . President trump began his day in davos talking not about the economy b...

Welker. White house reporter ashley parker. New york times politics reporter jeremy peters. Nbc National Security and justice reporter, julia ainslie. And michael schmidt. Kristen welker, start with the news of john dowds departure. You spoke with imhad just moments ago. Give us a sense of why now and whats sense this sort of change in strategy within the president s legal team . Peter, we have confirmed this report broken by the New York Times. I spoke to john dowd very briefly. He confirmed he resigned. When i asked him why he wouldnt give any details. He said just tell people i love the pre...

Of trumps Legal Advisers are on board but others are telling him they believe they have a stronger case against rosenstein and they believe he has crossed the line in what he can and cannot pursue and consider him conflicted since he is a potential witness in the special counsel investigation because he wrote that memo that justified the firing of former fbi director james comey. So even though trump has considered firing him in the past, anderson, this possibility has taken on a more serious tone in recent days, according to sources we have spoken with. And what about the meeting between muel...

Of the president s personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Sources familiar with this matter say this is one of several options on the table right now, including going so far as to fire attorney general Jeff Sessions as well. All of this is what the president is weighing. Now Officials Say if trumps acts, rosenstein is the most likely target because installing a new Deputy Attorney general could provide the check on mueller trump has been seeking for quite sometime. Now we should note that not all of trumps Legal Advisers are on board but others are telling him they believe they have a stronger case ag...

Zeleny. Michael the investigate correspondent at yahoo news. Evan ill start with you. What do we know about these questions and where do they come from . They or ridge nate with the mueller team a month ago. They laid out four different groups topic of questions if he agreed to sit down with an interview of the mueller investigator. These particular interviews of the New York Times tonight essentially note that the president s lawyers took, they made these questions up based on what the mueller team was asking. Its a pretty good, i think, representation. We wrote a story about a month ago in w...