but marc kazowitz doesn't have one. and the rest of the piece is about why he might not be able to get a security clearance if he wanted to. and this gets into personal stuff about drinking and rehab and what sounds like kind of a tremendous bar fight. it's lurid stuff and it is sourced up the wazoo. and this would be personal in nature if it wasn't for the fact that mark wats is nkasowitz is president's lawyer. and this stuff described, it may affect his ability to get a security clearance which really may affect his ability to provide effective representation to the president. i talked about that briefly last night around this time and then something new happened. i'm going to recount this. we're going back to reporter justin elliott at propublica. quote, marc kazowitz, president trump's personal attorney threatened a stranger last night. the exchange began after the man saw our story featured last night on the rachel maddow show on msnbc. the exchange of e-mails on wednesday began at 9:28 eastern when the man sent th

his top lawyer had been marc kazowitz, a new york lawyer who has

the russia case, who is apparently disappeared now, two weeks ago tonight it was trump lawyer marc kazowitz sending this stuff to random strangers over e-mail. remember this? f you. you are just such a piece of -- i'm on you now. you're f'g with me. let's see who you are. watch your back b --. that was two weeks ago tonight. that was the president's lead lawyer on the russian investigation. although it should be noted he promptly disappeared after those outbursts. and he was replaced by this guy. >> get the [ bleep ] out of here. okay? that's what i got to say to nbc. >> so we got some new evidence tonight. but this is what the presidency is like now. we have this new evidence tonight from the white house communications director and what he said to the "new yorker." but we have known this about them for a while. we've known this is the way they operate, we've known this is the environment that the president creates around himself. in terms of what's newly important about this tonight, though -- actually, do we have that from last night? can we put up the list of fired -- yes, thank you, fir

his top lawyer had been marc kazowitz, a new york lawyer who has represented the president on previous things like the trump university law case and keeping mr. trump's divorce records secret. one of the many things that happened in today's news is that marc kasowitz was either demoted from his leeld role or he's left the legal team all together. it's not entirely clear. but now apparently leading the president's representation on matters related to russia is john dowd, a washington, d.c. lawyer who is like mr. kasowitz, also known for having a hot temper. now, you might remember last night on this show we had bloomberg news reporter, investigative reporter greg ferrell here. greg ferrell and a colleague yesterday reported for bloomberg this seemingly very important story. you see the head line, mueller expands probe to trump business transactions. the reason i say this was a seemingly very important story is in part because of the freak out it seems to have occasions in the white house. that bloomberg article came out yesterday, mid morning. updated a couple of times during the day bu

his top lawyer had been marc kazowitz, a new york lawyer who has represented the president on previousthe trump university law case and keeping mr. trump's divorce records secret. one of the many things that happened in today's news is that marc kasowitz was either demoted from his leading role or he's left the legal team all together. it's not entirely clear. but now apparently leading the president's representation on matters related to russia is