lawyer in the russian investigation, john dowd quitting today. dowd former marine core captain, main contact with mueller in the russia investigation. he had pressed the president to lay off attacking mueller personally of course it worked for a while but as we saw this week the president completely disregarding that. personally attacking mueller by name for the first time tweet the mueller probe should never have been started there was no collusion and no crime. and why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, some big crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans, that along with retweeting criticism saying there should be no special counsel coming from a professor. ryan nobles outfront right now at the white house. you talk about the legal team perhaps the most important thing for this president right now in the future of his presidency, the guy in charge, gone, what can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, erin. this story shouldn't get lost in all this news about mcmaster at