john dowd has denied today that he leaked those questions. john dowd can now fairly be described by "the new york times" or anyone else as a person outside of trump's legal team. john dowd is also the star of a dramatic scene delivered as the lead of "the washington post" report tonight complete with the terrible dialogue of a terrible hollywood screenwriter that john dowd has told nbc news he thinks is an accurate representation of the scene. and that means, of course, it is a scene that makes john dowd the hero, the less for trump supporting readers. in a tense meeting in early march with the special counsel, president trump's lawyers insisted that he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators, probing russia's interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. but robert s. mueller iii had another option if trump declined. he could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury. according to four people from familiar with the encounter. mueller's warning, the first time he is known to have mentioned a possible subp

that's what john dowd said earlier.a, the middle east and so much more, there is not much time to be thinking about this, especially since there was no russian collusion." earlier in the day, the president had a similar tweet, saying there's very important issues, north korea, nuclear war, china, trade deficits, negotiations and nafta, witch hunt! there was no collusion. it is a hoax. >> in 1997, bill clinton's lawyers made exactly the same argument to the united states supreme court in saying, i don't have time, as president, to, you know, give a deposition in the paula jones sexual harassment case. look at all the things i'm doing. and presidents are busy on very important matters. and the supreme court said, too bad! and there's every reason to believe that a court today would say, too bad, you're not above the law. >> can i just make a point that he is quoting -- he is quoting john dowd, who left -- >> who quit. >> who quit because the president, partly because the president wasn't taking his advice. he is quoting j

the times reports the president disaagreed with john dowd and john dowd announced he was leaving donald trump's legal team. joining us is the "new york times" reporter who helped break this story tonight. matt, i want to get you on the point of the authorship of the questions, the ones we're reading were actually written by the trump legal team after john dowd heard all of these questions verbally presented to him by the special prosecutor's office? is that how this list came to be? >> yeah i mean, so as mike was explaining to rachel, this is the result of this back and forth between the trump legal team and the mueller team. you know, in which mueller is trying to convince trump lawyers to let him sit down for this interview. as we describe in our story here tonight, the document that was provided to us was provided by somebody outside mr. trump's legal team. so i'm not going to get too in the weeds there. but, yeah, we condensed some of the language in our list, but, yeah, it's a good -- it's a pretty good takeaway that the list you're reading on the times website that we annotated is

tonight, nbc news has reached john dowd to comment on this new report in "the washington post." in a brief e-mail with nbc news regarding this new "post" story, mr. dowd referred questions about it to the president's current legal team. but then he said, quote, i think it is right, meaning he believes the substance of this "washington post" report tonight is true, even though he's going to leave it, beyond that, for the president's existing russia lawyers to comment further. jay sekulow is still one of the president's lawyers. he tells nbc news tonight, quote, we do not discuss conversations we have or have not had with the office of the special counsel. joining us now is "washington post" reporter carol leonnig who broke this story at "the post." carol, thank you for joining us tonight, and congratulations, once again, on a big scoop. >> thanks, rachel. it's good to be here. >> i am extrapolating from one word in your report, which is "warning." that the special counsel, that the character of this consultation between the special counsel's office and the president's lawyers was

how does john dowd figure into this?o might be the source of these questions, of course, we can't pose that question directly to the witness here we have before us, mike schmidt. >> he'd shoot all of us before he'd tell us who any of his sources are. >> john dowd is someone who used to be part of the trump legal team, is now no longer. the "new york times" reported that this did not come from the trump legal team. i think all of us believe it did not come from the tight-lipped special counsel's office. so i was speculating earlier with savannah guthrie on the today show that perhaps john dowd could be the source of this. at 10:16 a.m. i got a very stern e-mail from john dowd. he said i was not the source, i was not the leak. please correct the record on national television. so i'm just putting it out there that john dowd is saying emphatically on the record that he was not the source of this material. >> i can one up you. >> please. >> before i'd even gone on television, two people called me to tell me that rudy wasn't m

, after a series of consultations that john dowd had with mueller, john dowd told, it is not me palvesting that he is not leakind below the president's team after concluding that mueller's long list of questions cope with the president in legal jeopardy if you set for an interview. this leak widely seen as an sabotaging of an interview, added that it was a person outside of the legal team meaning that it would not likely be the white house lawyer ty cobb or outside lawyer rudy judy only who replaced dowd since he is on the team. the president wants to do an interview, but some people telling me tonight that it is less and less likely, because i see this as a pile on. mueller pressing for matters with james comey, general flynn, jeff sessions, and questions whether he communicated with michael cohen about real estate issues in russia which would cross the red line that the president talked about about how he did not believe it would be fair for his business dealings before he was president to be investigated. last point, republicans trey gowdy and bob goodlatte are trying to probe so

john dowd quit in late march.the departure comes as we hear robert mueller may resort to a subpoena to get the president to sit down for a special investigation. the president tweeting this -- >> he also just took a shot at the justice department saying, and i'm quoting, once again, this is the president, at some point, i will have no choice but to use the powers granted to the presidency, and get involved. let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. talk about the president's legal issues right now. who is taking over for ty cobb? this is another major legal shakeup on the president's team. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. ty cobb, the president's inside attorney you could say over here at the white house, not one of his outside lawyers, but has been at his side for several months is stepping down. just last month, the president preferred to ty cobb as his special counsel in a tweet defending his own white house team. but confirming in a statement to reporters just in the last several minutes that

that's what john dowd said earlier. "with north korea, china, the middle east and so much more, there is not much time to be thinking about this, especially since there was no russian

eventually, though, january 29th, two days after the interview to take place, john dowd wrote them a 20-page letter saying absolutely not. >> this is the attorney before rudy giuliani came into this

john dowd was a big hawk against letting the president sit down for an interview.hey get these questions, less than two weeks after they get these questions, john dowd quits the team because the president is not going to listen to his advice not to do the interview. john dowd saw the interview as highly problematic, and he was not going to be the lawyer that allowed that to happen. >> okay. mike, can i also ask you in terms of your understanding of the import of these questions, you've written these up with matt apuzzo with some annotation in terms of what each of these questions might mean or they might be referencing, which is absolutely invaluable. and there's one toward the end of the list that you describe as one of the most intriguing questions on the list. i absolutely agree with you. i wonder if you know what this is getting at. the question is what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign including paul manafort to russia about potential assistance to the campaign? that strikes me as a brand new concept. we've heard a lot about russians and

john dowd quit in late

he got rid of john dowd. he brought in rudy giuliani. and what we understand now from our reporting just today is that this new legal team is still trying to sort of get a hold of all of the pieces. they're reviewing documents. they can't come in cold and expect to know everything that the last legal team took months to understand. so there's a new path here. there could be new negotiations. there could be new questions that have come up for mueller over the last month or two. now giuliani will be reviewing those. from what we understand, a lot of the concern has shifted away from exactly what mueller wants to ask and into what might be coming out of these new york raids. if there's new information that cohen could have exposed to mueller that could then be on his radar, which would be separate from the questions that we've seen in the last 24 hours. >> and, robert, let's go a little bit further on cohen and trump. a lot of people were stunned to see the front page of the "national enquirer," a hit piece on cohen, knowing that the centra

all the so-called grown ups whether tillerson or master or ty cobb or john dowd, they're all gone. and in their place are people who are much more aggressive. rudy giuliani is now the spokesman for the defense. so instead of talking for five hours in january, rudy giuliani if he's talking about an interview at all he's talking about two hours. and he is highly, highly noncommittal about whether any interview will take place. i think that's indicative of how positions have hardened in the last few months. >> if you'll recall, wolf, on january 24th, the president said when he was asked about a possible interview he said and i'm quoting him here, i'm looking forward to it, actually. now, at the same time he was saying that he really wanted to do an interview and the president's attorneys wanted to get this over with. as jeffrey points out, the strategy now has completely changed. and after the rain on michael cohen's office the president completely changed as well. he went from going to thinking maybe i could do an interview, let's get it over with, to i'm absolutely not going to sit

that is what john dowd told the "washington post." it is not clear whether he can succeed in all of this. from what we know about the nixon tapes, that went to the supreme court. the supreme court said no. you have to cooperate with the authorities. >> there is also that and also breaking news involving one former trump campaign aid. michael michael cap paouto. he went on to say, they know more about the trump campaign than anyone who worked there. the senate and the house are net fishing, quote the special counsel is spear fishing. i want to bring in jeffrey toobin. just about their abilities, their focus, how concerned should the president's people in his orbit be tonight? i would be very nervous. >> the mueller investigation is like an iceberg. think back, a couple of months now when mueller's office indicted 13 russians for the social media conspiracy. most people didn't know they were investigating that subject. i mean, they are operating with the secrecy that we have never seen in washington. and they are learning a lot. it is a

president trump's former attorney john dowd says special counsel robert mueller may try to force the president trump to testify under oath. he's been in touch with the counsel's office about a possible sit-down interview with the president. last night dowd said mueller's team raised the idea of a subpoena in early march. in the tweet the president called it disgraceful, but secretary sarah sanders refused to comment. later it was said outsiders won't be allowed to influence the investigation. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein spoke after some congressional republicans drafted articles of iimchmp meet >> i think they should understand by now the department of justice is not going to be extorted. >> even if a grand jury subpoena were issued, president trump could refuse to answer questions by invoking his fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination. it's not immediately clear in what context it was raised or how serious mueller was about it. anne-marie. >> hena doba here in new york. thank you so much, hena. >>> now to the ethics investigations of the environmental protectio

trump's then-attorney john dowd replied, this isn't some game. >> he actually should be telling that or he should have been telling that to his client. he said that according to two people with knowledge of his comments, you are screwing with the work of the president of the united states. dowd quit trump's legal team two and a half weeks later. reportedly over disagreements on strategy. and interview negotiations with mueller were derailed by the raid on michael cohen's offices three weeks ago, which rudy giuliani says the president is resisting. >> and willie of course now since dowd has left, the president has gone to the washington law firm of larry, moe and curly, that's his new legal team. >> he's got giuliani, too. >> of counsel. >> exactly. and then yesterday president trump slammed the release of potential questions we told you about yesterday. the ones robert mueller would have for the president. >> willie, who would have done that? >> let's find out. >> because mueller had so much discipline and he didn't leak out these reports. >> it might have come from the other side. p

quoting john dowd there from the "washington post." adding to nbc overnight that it appears that this was the case, that it is true that there was a subpoena threat. whether there's actually a subpoena coming, that, we don't know. >> that, we will still have to see. all right, tracie potts for us in washington. thank you. >>> the president's physician is in headlines this morning. this time it's an entirely different trump doctor makingness. nbc news got an exclusive interview with trump's long-time personal their. -- dr. he used adjectives like astonishingly excellent and extraordinary saying he is the healthiest individual ever elected. now he is revealing to nbc how some surprise visitors connected to the president raided his office, demanding he turn over all the president's medical records. it ultimately soured their relationship. we have more on the head-spinning account. >> reporter: donald trump's doctor for more than 35 years is telling nbc news about the raid that ended that relationship. >> what exactly were they looking for

ty cobb, john dowd, they are out. my understanding is ty cobb has been saying for some time he was going to retire. >> he has been enormously helpful, he helped me with my orientation. we wouldn't be where we are today which is in a very strong position if it wasn't for him and john. john has been my friend and colleague for 35 years, i have nothing but the utmost respect for john dowd. he had the right instinct about this which is you're going to get him to testify over my dead body because he's trying to trap him. he had the instinct to see that. all that work didn't go for nothing, we got it all. jay sekulow has been the rock. i couldn't do it without him. i offer something unique, i'm a lawyer who knows the criminal justice system as well as anybody in america. i'm also a very good friend of donald trump. and i think i have the respective mueller, the fbi, the justice department. jeff sessions was my colleague. not just in the campaign but it in 1981 would he was attorney in alabama. they note the decisions i'm go

ty cobb and john dowd didn't want president to sit down with robert mueller. neither does emmett flood and nobody in their right mind does. they have a very competent lawyer behind the scenes and a bunch of people like rudy giuliani were very good at muddying the waters and performing political attacks on an investigation. so you have a dual track strategy. discredit the investigation, make it partisan in the same way the democrats it with the bill clinton situation. and we will have the same thing again here. and their bet is that bob mueller will not issue a subpoena. that he won't have the guts because it will be a long drawn out legal process. even if he does, they will but their forces. >> he might not have cause to issue subpoenas. it's not about guts. >> why wouldn't he have the cause? there are a lot of questions. just take on obstruction of justice. what was in your mind when you did x? >> we are all talking about them as if they were mueller's questions. they were written by trump's legal team after a conversation with someone in mueller's office. it

john dowd is gone. they were more conciliatory. they have a special counsel now hell bent on bringing down this president. these are scary questions. >> neil: why draft a limited number of them? was it a trap? >> i think yes, but -- yes, it is a trap. if he goes and he -- we mentioned how tempestuous he is. what a lousy ad libber he is. flay buoyant with his rhetoric. for him to sit down all day with those questions that are essay questions and have him -- the way he was on "fox and friends" -- if there's someone that -- unlike our team really wants to hurt him, you can. what do you mean by that? you said you went to the left side and now the right side. didn't you say you had a gray tie on? >> neil: you think mueller wants to entrap him? >> i think the appeal of a perjury trap to a prosecutor is something that they cannot deny themselves. you know, it's so much easier to catch someone like general flynn, for instance, in a lie about something stupid than it is to prove the substantive offense. did the president collude with the ru

to which john dowd said this isn't some game. you're screwing with the work of the president of the united states. a week later, james quarrels had a conversation with the president's legal team, gave him a list of 49, 42 questions that mueller would like to ask the president. alan dershowitz said in no way shape or form should the president sit down. they would have another option. >> i would submit questions and answers in writing based on article 2 of the conversation. he said look, i've answered the question. why are they trying to bring me into a grand jury. this interferes with my right to govern and he would be in a better position politically and legally if he were to provide answers to the questions. >> so i asked rudy guliani this afternoon, the 49, 52 questions, do you believe those represent or look like a perjury trap? he said we all do. the questions almost cry out. they don't have a case. they're desperate. they want to make a case. look how few questions, if any, about russia. they've lost that one. now they're fa

. >> sean: ty cobb, john dowd, they are out.y understanding is ty cobb had been saying for some time he was going to retire. >> ty cobb has been enormously helpful. he certainly helped me with my orientation. we wouldn't be where we are today, in a very strong position, if it wasn't for him and john. john has been my friend and colleague for 35 years. i have nothing but the utmost respect for john dowd. he had the right instincts about this, which is, you are going to get him to testify over my dead body because you are trying to trap him. he had those instincts way back when it was harder to see those. so all that work didn't go for nothing. we got it all. jay has been the rock. he's been -- jay sekulow. he's been through this -- i coded could not do it without him. what i offer something unique. i'm a lawyer who knows the criminal justice system as well as anybody in america. i'm also a very good friend of donald trump. and i think i have the respect of mueller, the fbi, the justice department. >> sean: you showed. >> jeff ses

john dowd was saying don't testify or don't answer questions to the special counsel of the president. could this leak be some message to the president, hey, these are serious, listen to how people are reacting to this, you don't want to testify? >> it may be. if in fact that's the strategy to release it so that the president hears from other advisers that john dowd was right, that it is dangerous for him to go voluntarily and answer the questions. maybe that's the objective. but i think there is no question that we can conclude they came from somebody in trump orbit trying to figure out why they did it may be difficult. if you look at the questions, they demonstrate that the president has a lot of very difficult questions to answer, and it shows that this investigation is on going, both with respect to russian participation and collusion with the trump campaign, and the on going efforts of the president to impede, undermine, obstruct or stop the investigation. >> so the reason i'm asking you this question, as a member of the house judiciary committee, is if the president ultimately do

first time in the history of the festival the jury awarded a special dog it went to cinema legend john dowd for his experimental film essay the image book. i want to make a prediction in addition the meat to movement made an appearance at the award ceremony filmmaker and actress asia argento gave a speech telling how in one thousand nine hundred seven at the age of twenty one she was raped during the come film festival by disgraced hollywood film producer harvey weinstein. he was directing legend martin scorsese was awarded the honorary cousin star award income. but as it stands you won't see his next movie here scorsese shot the irishman from netflix and as netflix refuses to first release films and french cinemas and only stream them three years later it's films are effectively banned from cannes. last front clear was back after a seven year absence following a controversial press conference in which he expressed sympathy for adult hitler. i understand here. the off the cuff comments were a lead. didley not meant seriously but they caused a major scandal to see a negotiated the new press

he was speculating where the e-mails came from john dow, well he got an e-mail from john dowd. >> i washrie on the "today" show that perhaps john dowd could be the source of this. and i got a very stern e-mail saying i was not the source, i was not the leak. so i'm just putting out there that john dowd is saying emphatically on the record he was not the source of this material. >> not surprising. and feel like i should say jay sekulow was probably the source. >> it's important to get out there. it clearly came from trump's orbit somehow. is it an infiltration, we don't know. i want to move into what i said earlier. it's mark rubio on tax cuts, tom price on health care, nick mu mulvaney on draining the swamp. all in the last week you guys have been handed try this one out. >> it's literally a day after the president has been elected we've been given a whole plethora of the things we can go after. i think that there is a lot of infighting. it's should we have a national message? i think what's been working they've been going local. and local candidates have really been talking about the i

in which the special counsel raised the potential of a subpoena and john dowd got very angry about it. and now the legal team understands that they've got a president who is angry after the michael cohen raid, who went from, yes, i'd like to testify to, no, i'm not going to testify. they have new members of their legal team who have to get sort of read in and caught up. so they're not making any blanket predictions here about what will occur, but they do believe that it's very possible that they will get a subpoena and that they would fight it if they got one all the way to the supreme court. >> okay, gloria, you're also reporting that mueller himself has raised the idea of subpoenaing the president. so have the talks broken down with mueller? >> well, i think what we can say is that the talks are in a lull, which would be a nice way to put it. what was interesting about all of this was the morning of the michael cohen raid, the president's attorneys were sitting together in a room preparing a kind of a deal that they could strike with the special counsel about trump testifying on

john dowd had the job that rudy giuliani has now. that is the head of the outside team whose job it is to protect donald trump, the human being. emmett flood has the job that ty cobb did. that is a government employee who works in the white house, whose job is to protect presidency as an institution. what happens when something in the interest of donald trump but not in the interest of the presidency as institution, kelly resolves the dispute. non-lawyer -- should we surrender this documents or might surrender impair executive privilege and harm the presidency, make it difficult for a future president to resist prosecution. ashley: so many layers. let's get to the subpoena issue, if indeed that takes place and president is subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury, what are his options? >> none. rudy giuliani -- ashley: no choice? >> rudy giuliani's boasts that interview will last two or three hours will be out the window because a grand jury could keep him two or three days or weeks if they wanted to. he doesn't have a lawyer in t

john dowd. >> sounds like he doesn't want to do it, right? >> sounds like he's reversing course again. he got rid of dwout and wanted someone more aggressive and got giuliani. there's a pattern of getting rid of people, getting rid of ty cobb who are telling him to exercise caution and he's instead bringing in people who will agree with him. >> the question i have to ask, what's he going to feel like being hog tied by a subpoena, suppose the supreme court votes 5-4, suppose kennedy goes with the prosecution and he's hog tied forced to come into court under subpoena. and then he's treated like a defendant. with prosecutors closing in, trump's allies on capitol hill are threatening to impeach deputy attorney general rod rosen teen if he doesn't turn over documents related to the ongoing investigation. president trump issued this threat. a rigged system. they don't want to turn over documents to congress. what are they afraid of? why so much reacting, such an equal justice? at some point i will have no choice but to use the powers granted to the

john dowd responds this isn't a game. you're screwing with the work of the president of the united states. what do you think? this isn't a game. it's about the rule of law. and trump, like anyone else like richard nixon, is subject to it. that means having to answer to a subpoena. at the end of the day, mueller has strategic considerations but he has the legal draw on trump as it were. he may have to take it to the supreme court. trump may try certain arguments. but mueller is right. it also makes the point, chris, people are sort of taking these questions as the current state of play. this was a month ago. what they really is are is the end of the road. they're the point when the negotiations went off course and trump and company said we are not going to try to give terms of an interview anymore. so it's really i think with this west report and what's happened to date reading between the lines. we're looking at a legal battle. it's much more likely than it seemed three weeks ago that mueller will serve a subpoena. trump

she said it was a very tense meeting, simple because john dowd had a very sharp response to the idea,at this would interfere with the work of the president, and this is something obviously the president's legal team takes something very seriously. is why they believe, you know, it should never even come to this. even the idea of an interview, they believe, interferes with the work of the president, because obviously he's preparing for a summit meeting with north korea. this is something they keep bringing up as one of the many reasons why doing this would interfere with the president's work. >> earlier the "washington post" was reporting that according to their reporting, the president is now thinking of not going for an interview, not complying. that he doesn't think it's a good idea. is is that what you're hearing as well? >> that is exactly what we're hearing. i think it's become abundantly clear that the president's legal team is getting ready for a standoff, really, on a subpoena. because if a subpoena does come, there is, i think, a lot of thought inside the president's legal te

we also saw that the president's personal outside lawyer john dowd left the team a while back. we have got a reconfiguration here, rudy giuliani is a propment voice for the president's personal affairs on the outside and john sekulow and the team they are building. on the inside we will have emmitt flood with the tenacious experience right down the alley of what the white house will need. at the same time we can perhaps discern a shift because we know that the m.o. for ty cobb had been to send a signal of cooperation to try to work with the mueller team and to hope that that would be a way to wrap things up more quickly and to the president's benefit and the white house's benefit. he is not the president's lawyer. he is a white house lawyer. he will be leaving at the end of this month. is this a shift in style as well? is it also a possibility that flood would come into this picture with a reconfigured team both inside and outside? that the time thing that drew him in. it is important. the white house is putting it in a statement from sarah huckabee sanders with flood coming int

john dowd in particular who signed the letter to mueller saying, you know what?-page letter, here's why we're not going to do it. >> bring in joey jackson. legal analyst, what is your reaction? >> wolf, the reaction i have is this is not going to happen and the american people have being punked straight out. now, think about this. number one, trump hates the investigation. number two, he believes it undermines his presidenciment number three, comes up with conspiracy theories every other day as to the investigators and the investigation and discrediting the investigation. and what happens is that the legal people are in a box. why are they in a box? because you asked the president would you like to speak to the legal, mueller's team? i will. and then on the other hand, why would you do that? you have to be connected to the mob. if i'm his lawyer, there's no upside at all to sitting down with the investigators. just not. if you want to find collusion, find that from the president's principles, woging with the president. you can certainly establish that there's col

john dowd, march 2018. with north korea, china, the middle east and so much more, there is not much time to be thinking about this, especially since there was no russian "collusion." giuliani amplified the message on "hannity" made by making clear he believes the president is too busy to sit for a 12 hour interview with mueller but might be available for a shorter one with a narrow list of questions. watch. >> you can't possibly not feel, as a citizen of the world, that negotiations with north korea are much more significant than this totally garbage investigation. speak >> quoting steve bannon is saying that cobb was firing -- was fired for cooperating with mueller. cobb fired back to the times. i have been working the phones. cobb is telling friends in private he feels liberated, likening it to the scene in "braveheart" when mel gibson screams out "freedom." >> shannon: rather dramatic. also dramatic, giuliani made some major news on the stormy daniels case. i'm not sure the administration intended to mak

one of the things with john dowd, who left the team, an outside personal lawyer, his experience was a bit older. flood is right in the game right now, and so that is, i think, an interesting development that the president's been able to persuade him to come inside. white house only saying, so far, cobb is out. >> we do have matt apuzzo back with us. first, pete williams, bring you into this conversation as well. what's the significance for robert mueller and his investigation, the department of justice side of things, for the president's team to make such a major change at this point in the investigation? >> reporter: i don't think it will affect mueller much in terms of what these investigators are doing and i don't know what affect it will have on discussions whether the president ultimately answers questions or insists on a subpoena and whether that goes into a court fight, but in terms how mueller conducts the investigation itself, absent the questioning of the president it would have no affect at all, i would think. >> okay. matt apuzzo, what else about the difference in style? i

the news coming in from president trump's former top lawyer john dowd.

the news coming in from president trump's former top lawyer john dowd. he said mueller raised the possibility of a subpoena during a meeting with the president's attorneys in march. john roberts is reporting live from the north lawn for us this morning. good morning. >> not surprising there was talk of a subpoena in the meeting the president's attorneys had with the special counsel and his deputy back in early march. a few weeks ago fox news reported we had been told that after the michael cohen investigation that the negotiations for potential interview between the president and robert mueller were still ongoing. the person told fox news, quote, what's the alternative to an interview, a subpoena to appear before a grand jury? the threat of a subpoena has always been out there. what we're learning more about today is the content of the meeting that prompted the quote about what is the alternative, a subpoena. the president's lead attorney john dowd said he told mueller and his deputy that this isn't some game. you are screwing with the work of the preside

the threat from a march meeting explained by trumps attorney john dowd.aving answered the interview request. the latest risk of the day after fox news obtained a list of questions that trumps legal team believes mueller wants to ask. possible questions cover interactions with key figures in the russia saga, james comey, jeff sessions, michael cullen along with topics including a moscow real estate deal, and begins with vladimir putin enemy back channel setup by jared kushner to talk to russia before the inauguration. not happy with the late reading so disgraceful that questions concerning the russian witch hunt were leaked to the media. no questions on collusion. i see you have a made up for a crab collusion that never existed investigation with illegally leaked classified information. nice. dow denies he is weaker but pretty skeptical because they are and have heroic role. dismissing reports that house republicans are articles of impeachment against him. >> there have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite so

to appear before grand jury if trump refuses an interview, that threat from our march meeting by john dowdho resigned weeks later amid a dispute how to answer mueller's interview request, this a day after fox news obtained a list of questions that trump's legal team believes mother wants to ask. possible questions cover trump's interactions with key figures in the russia saga, mike flynn, michael cohen with topics including a moscow real estate deal, meetings with vladimir putin and any back channel set up by jared kushner to talk to russia before the inauguration. as you might imagine donald trump not happy with the leak tweeting so disgraceful the questions concerning the russian witchhunts were leaked to the media, no questions on collusion. i see, you have a made up phony crime, collusion, that never existed and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. dowd denies he is the leader but the white house is skeptical because the leak pretty much framed doubt in a heroic role. house republicans mulling articles of impeachment against him. >> making threats public

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then he quoted john dowd during a meeting with mueller, saying this isn't some game, you are screwing with the work of the president of the united states, with north korea china, the middle east and so much more, not much time to think about this especially since there was no russian collusion. rudy giuliani amplified that message by making it clear he believes the president is too busy to sit for a 12 hour interview with mueller but might be available for shorter one with a narrow list of questions. >> you can't possibly not feel as a citizen of the world negotiations with north korea are more significant than this totally garbage investigation. >> the new york times is quoting steve bannon saying cobb was fired for cooperating with mueller too much. fired back he doesn't pay any attention to steve bannon. i have been working the phones and cobb is going further with friends telling them in private feels liberated, liking it to the scene in braveheart when mogensen screams freedom. >> that is rather dramatic. also dramatic, rudy giuliani making a surprise announcement, made major new

john dowd exited in march. there still is marty and jane raskin recently brought on the team. castle wits, his personal attorney, one of his personal attorneys, he was in and out briefly. now they bring in emmet flood. in full disclosure, we were coclerks back in the day, you see him on the upper left-hand corner. flood is the kind of attorney who is not going to give a lotot of interviews on television he's one of the smartest peopleo i know. one of the finest people i know. just top-notch, the kind of person that should've been in front and right from the very beginning. he worked for clinton during the impeachment investigation, he's at williams and connelly. this does tell you that the trump team has gotten serious. he's going to go for the big get. your reaction. >> it wasn't just clinton, he also represented dick cheney in private practice and he also represented the white house counsel office under investigation for the bush administration as well. he's got experience in both times of administration. speaking to somebody with impeachment experience, the scales have fall