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Consideration. >> the president is happy with jay sekulow and working at the white house -- >> so he has one of the three. so dowd and ty cobb are gone -- so when he was saying he was happy with his lawyers plural, he was talking about jay sekulow, not the two out the door. >> i think ty cobb is retiring, he has a long and distinguished career and that is perfectly available. he is not leaving the door today. at the end of the month so he's giving 30 days notice and still on the team and they'll continue to bring in additional people so the president could be well represented. >> cnn is report...

Unsatisfied. he told mr. dowd in early march that he needed to question the president directly to determine whether the president had criminal intent when he fired the fbi director james comey. but mr. dowd held firm. and then investigators for mueller agreed days later to share during a meeting with mr. dowd the questions they wanted to ask mr. trump." so dowd is like you don't need to interview him. mueller's like yes, we do. they're negotiating back and forth and finally at a meeting with dowd and trump's -- and mueller's investigators, all right, here's the questions we're going to want to...

>> lot of questions about the story we were just discussing before the white house briefing, scoop in the "new york times," john dowd, the now no longer sort of chief attorney on team trump. paul manafort and michael flynn as the special counsel as the bob mueller team was honing in on them. so dowd, in a statement to the ti times denying any of this. and you heard sarah sanders over and over and over, i refer you to ty cobb, another attorney here, and his statement. mark preston is with me. you heard all of that. i heard from sarah when i was asked multiple times directly, i'm not aware of an...

The president has been hammering dowd who has led the legal team because he feels that he was misled, that his legal team was telling him hold your fire, this is going to be over, whether it was thanksgiving and then it was christmas and then it was early in the new year, et cetera. they got an indication from mueller as they were trying to negotiate over the president's testimony about where mueller was going in his questions. it's very clear it's not over. the president, who originally wanted to push back, as did his initial attorneys, mark casowitz, sat back, took the legal advice of john d...

The rest of the legal team, i would say, is quite upset at wait dowd resigned, because it kind of leaves them without a lead attorney and negotiations that they're smack-dab in the middle of. so dowd, i think, felt that he could no longer represent the president because he felt his advice was being ignored. and now i asked somebody familiar with what's going on inside the legal team, so who is running the legal strategy now? and this person said to me, the president. >> i'm not surprised by that. laura coates, you're a legal analyst. at this sensitive moment in a case like this where the lead ...