Happens fast. Would you like to testify to special Counsel Robert Mueller . Thank you. I would like to, i would like to, he says, as hes walking out the door. Dowds departure comes 11 days after this tweet from the president , complimentary tweet. Failing New York Times falsely wrote a story saying im unhappy with my legal team on the russia case and im going to add another lawyer to help out. Wrong, he says. Im very happy with my lawyers, john dowd, ty cobb and jay sekulow. They are doing a great job and dot dot d dot, dot, dot. It comes at a crucial moment. Im told by sources inside the white house the president simply grew frustrated with john dowd in recent days, questioning his ability to lead the legal team as they deal with this response to the special counsels investigation. But this isnt just about john dowd. What this speaks to is a larger frustration from the president , with his legal team and the way that theyve been responding to this. And thats been evident, despite the president publicly saying hes perfectly happy with his legal team. We see john dowd resign today. We know theres been outreach to other lawyers about coming on. Some of them including ted olson, very highprofile lawyer who turned them down, and hired joe digenova. There is a reshuffling to the legal team despite him saying there isnt t speaks to a larger strategy of how theyre going to deal with the special counsels investigation. Clearly the president is signaling he would like it take a more aggressive, more controlling approach and is really taking the reins for the way hes going to respond to this. Whats clear here is that no lawyer will make the president happy with this unless they can get him out of this special counsels investigation. That just doesnt seem to be a feasible point right now. Right. Right. Kaitlan, thank you for the setup. Michael zelden is with me, cnn legal analyst and Robert Muellers former special assistant and pamela brown, our senior white house correspondent. Part of the rationale of the dowd departure, a, he didnt want to be cocounsel with joe digenova and, b, despite clicking with trump early on, the relationship is strained. Remind everyone this was the guy on the legal team who is the point person in dealing with team mueller. Thats right. He was the one really interfacing with team mueller. He was the lead attorney. He was selected to be part of the president s legal team because of his ongoing, longtime relationship with Robert Mueller. He had the relationship with mueller. So, it was viewed as best for him to continue with that and be the person, the point person and the inperson meeting. They had an inperson meeting. It was john dowd who was taking the lead in that meeting with Robert Muellers team. Theres a feeling now at this crucial time, when theyre trying to figure out whether to allow the president to do an interview that now their lead attorney is sort of leaving them high and dry as someone told my colleague, gloria borger, now hes taking his ball and going home. What do we do now at this Crucial Point in this investigation . How do you think muellers team views this news today, the dowd departure . I think it is not good news for mueller. I think they were making progress with dowd. Used to dealing with him. Used to dealing with him, cooperating with one another, working on the parameters of an interview. If mueller gets a new attorney who is a flame thrower, who isnt going to cooperate does it mean whether mueller goes back to the drawing board, issue grand jury subpoenas themselves, step up the pressure. I dont think this is good for mueller. Certainly its not good for the president. Wasnt it john dowd put yourself if you think about the president as a client, and this lawyer in particular is saying to him last year, all right, were going to wrap this investigation, sir. Well have it finished by thanksgiving. Nope. Just kidding. Well have it finished by christmas and on and on. Now its march and documents at the Trump Organization were recently subpoenaed. Conversations have intensified between team mueller and team trump on trumps behalf, you can understand, in part, the frustration. If thats what they were telling him privately. It is. They may well have been saying i can tell you that. It is what they were telling him privately. Maybe he is his own worst enemy. If you have a client who you cant speak honestly to there was no honesty to the notion this was going to end in november, december or january. If they felt the only way they could continue to serve as counsel was to tell the client what the client wants to hear, shame on the client. Youre saying thats what they told him . Shame on the lawyer. I can tell you from my standpoint we knew what they were telling him privately late last year and we were thinking, wait a second. Theres no indication this probe is going to wrap up soon. What about in a few months from now when thats very clear not the case. Here we are, brooke. And the lead attorney is leaving. At the same time, shame on the client. This is a person, the president how do you deal with a client who does not listen, who directly attacks by name on twitter the lead investigator here, bob mueller, to dismisses counsels advice . You dont take that client as a client. Which is why you saw all those famous named attorneys declining this representation. Thanks but no thanks . John dowd did the best he could. I believe, pam, youre right. Except i believe they said, mr. President , under best circumstances, this is the way we go. I dont think these guys would say its foregone, were done at thanksgiving. Maybe they emphasized best case scenario. Maybe. Maybe they did. Even publicly, though, they were saying, look, everything is wrapping up. The interviews are wrapping up. This is going to be done soon. You know, its fascinating, like you point out, someone told my colleague, gloria borger, a source familiar with all this, when she asked who is going to lead the legal strategy now at this crucial time and that person said well, the president is. And that is the problem. The old adage of a person who represents themselves has a fool for a client now appears to apply here. And we dont know who it is that is left to be the outside lawyer. Sekulow is not a criminal attorney. Digenova is there more for pr strategies. Hes a pitbull. Even if he wasnt hes not a roll up your sleeves, file motions in court lawyer. Hes there for communications purposes. There is really no one left in charge that is a practicing lawyer. If they bring back kosowitz, a relationship that will not work and that may mean that mueller and weisman and his team says enough with you guys. Here is our grand jury subpoena. Well meet you may 12th and well battle it out in court if you think that youre not able to attend. Thats a potential scenario we could be talking about down the road in the not too distant future. Good to see you. Breaking news now, President Trump announcing new it tariffs against china. Is this a sign were headed into a global trade war . How might china retaliate . What does this mean to an everyday american . Also this escalating war of words. Responding to joe biden. Both sides essentially you have two grown men threatening violence against one another. This is absurd s biden setting the stage for taking on trump in 2020 . Stormy daniels attorney demanding the Trump Organization preserve documents and emails relating to her payment to stay quiet. 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Not included in this massive bill, which only lasts through september, only protections for dreamers or help with health care subsidies. Let me bring in my money expert, cnn political commentator also a columnist for the washington post. And rick neuman. To you first, katherine, on the tariffs side, slapping 50 billion worth of tariffs on chinese imports. For people watching, they see the news, how does it impact Everyday Americans . First and foremost if these tariffs come to pass the announcement was an announcement to look into putting on tariffs on chinese imports, but if they actually materialize, it would be bad for consumers. Tariff is a tax, it will raise the cost of things that American Consumers buy. Theres no way around that. It may shield some jobs in the United States and that could help some americans. The overall impact of that, just these tariffs alone, are likely to raise prices. If you have retaliation, as china has said it wants to do, you could see major losses of jobs down the line and major increases on other products as well. Thats what i want to hone in on. Keeping in mind if this happens, its on the heels of the steel and aluminum tariffs we were talking about not too long ago. What are potential retaliation tactics from china . They could put tariffs on u. S. Products. We export soy beans, cotton. Boeing sells aircraft to china. That china might target. Ings i think its really important to wait for the details here because you mentioned those steel and aluminum tariffs, those are turning out to be not much because a lot of the big importers are finding that theyre exempt from the tariffs. This is ongoing. Sounded more draconian at the beginning. Those are turning out to be sort of toothless tariffs. Its possible same thing is happening here. Trump wants to declare victory, saying this is something that i promised when i was campaigning. I did it. How much teeth will these have . Toothless tariffs. The fact is, though and you said about how the president has talked about this since the campaign trail. Katherine, china has been stealing from the u. S. For decades wiechlt now do you have a lot of people coming out and criticizing the move . Look, theres no way around it. China has been misbehaving. The United States has complained about it. Our allies have complained about it. But there are smart ways to deal with these problems, you know, intellectual property or other ways of putting chinas thumb on the scale to help chinese companies. There are smart ways to deal with it and there are dumb ways to deal with t the smart way would to do things like get together with our ally, saying well come together and create a trade pact that contains chinas influence or otherwise tries to push back against some of this bad behavior from china. For example, the Trans Pacific partnership that we signed a couple of years ago and trump pulled us out of. That would be a smart way to go about doing this. The dumb way to go about doing this, the reason why you have economists coming out against them, u. S. Chamber of commerce and other Industry Groups coming out against them is because precisely that. This is not the way to contain china, especially if were doing it unilaterally, because of retaliation, because its likely to raise costs for u. S. Consumers. There are all of these unintended consequences that happen when you try to address the very legitimate gripes that the United States has through these very handed remedies. China, president xi. Rick, i remember back to the president s swing through asia last fall. He was the first foreign leader to dine in the forbidden city since the founding of modern china. It was a big deal. Trump seemed smitten by xi and touts their friendship. What, if anything, would this do to their relationship . The question is, what are they talking about between themselves on the side . Trump may be talking to president xi through back channels through all of this saying i promised tariffs. Just put up with this for a little while. If you need to put on your own tariffs, i understand. Lets try to minimize the damage so we can talk the talk we need to, to our own domestic audiences. I think thats possible. Trump sort of invent aid problem no one else really sees with regard to china. Intellectual property theft happening in china is really staggering. And this is a there is bipartisan agreement on this. There are instances, and im no trump fan generally. There are instances where trump sort of he correctly identifies the problem. He was right about all the voters in the heartland, for instance, who feel left behind by globalization. The question is, is his remedy is this the right way to address it . Without a doubt theres a lot of dissension on that. If this remains fairly limited im not sure its such a bad thing. Its 50 billion in imports. The tariff itself, i think, will be 25 on that 50 billion if that ends up being the number. Our trade with china is around 700 billion per year, i think. Its not that much of the whole economic relationship if it stays there. Got t rick and katherine, thank you very much. Coming up next here, biden versus trump. The president hits back. This is more than just words. Is the Vice President setting the stage to take on trump in 2020 . Also she is one of the legal thorns in the president s side. New cnn reporting reveals Stormy Daniels may actually not be enjoying the attention, after all. What she is telling her Close Friends behind the scenes. Hey we didnt have a homeowners claim last year so allstate is giving us money back on our bill. Well, that seems fair. We didnt use it. Wish we got money back on gym memberships. Get money back hilarious. 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When a guy who ended up coming on National Television and saying i can grab a woman anywhere and then said i made a mistake. They asked me if id like to debate this gentleman. And i said no, if we were in high school, id take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him. Ive been in a lot of locker rooms my whole life. Im a pretty damn good athlete. Any guy that talked that way was usually the fattest, ugliest s. O. B. In the room. With me, political analyst and, of course, correspondent American Networks and amanda carpenter, cnn political commentator. Ladies. Ladies, ladies, ladies. Ladies, you have two grown men talking about beating one another up. Its crazy. If you added a love triangle you would have grumpy old men come to washington. But on a serious note, are the democrats more interested in trying to draw a contrast with President Trump or trying to outtrump trump . I would kindly suggest they look at what marco rubio did during the republican primary, during that florida debate where they got into a fight over the size of Donald Trumps hands. The president kept talking about that. He wasnt president at the time. And you made an interesting point. You talk about size matters. This isnt about politics. This has now become very streetish. A street fight. And, you know, its not right on either side. Biden said this. Dont talk about the locker room he has been in. The senate locker room . Possibly. Does that count . Hold on. Hold on. Biden was trying to defend the honor of women, okay . It didnt bode well for him to say, 70yearold man would fight another 70yearold man. He was Vice President , this is the president. We dont want to see this. Its gotten so streetish. But who invoked the streetism . Who invoked the gutter tactics . If you really want to look, it was this president. The only thing this president understands is when you play this game the way he plays it, not the way traditional washington plays it. That came out today with Rex Tillerson when he said this is a meanspirited. Much better approach. But he was making an indirect reference emotionally about this president who fired him on twitter over a week ago. But to round out the point of the republican primary when they got into that fight, donald trump and marco rubio, donald trump loved it. After rubio dropped out he said he went down and i dont play don rickles times ten. Above, beyond, below, sideway, do whatever he wants. But its obvious that biden is onehalf of this whole thing. Im wondering with this advisory committee, Advisory Board today, is he laying the groundwork, seriously, to take him on, to take trump on in 2020 . What do you think . Im going to say this. I saw him last summer up close. Both of us received an honorary doctorate on the same stage. Congratulations. Thank you. Over the summer. He stood for each and every student, 700 students, shook their hands as they crossed the stage and took selfies with them and even showed them how. Now if youre not thinking about the possibility of a run, you wouldnt do that. And he loved it. So, i said, it could possibly be. I went to his Christmas Party a couple of years ago and he took selfies with all of us. No. Hes out of the political realm so to speak. And he stood with 700 students. I got you. And shook their hands, made a personal connection and took selfies. That said something to me. Okay. Let me hit pause on this. Let me bring in mj lee with breaking developments on all things Stormy Daniels. Mj, you have been in touch with some of her friends. I want to hear about that first. Stormy daniels attorney is now demanding that the Trump Organization preserve documents related to her nondisclosure agreement. What do you know about that . Well, what Michael Avenotti is doing right now is essentially building the case for their lawsuit. This is a Significant Development because this letter was sent to the Trump Organization and he says that he plans to subpoena the company because he sees that there are unmistakable links between the company and the entire Stormy Daniels saga. To remind you, this is referring to the fact that Michael Cohen, Donald Trumps personal lawyer, wrote an email related to all of this using his Company Email address. Jill martin, top lawyer for the Trump Organization based out in california, her name has cropped up as part of all of this. He is essentially trying to make the case. It seems clear to me that the Trump Organization has played a role. We want to make sure that you guys are preserving any documents, any evidence so they can be used as part of this lawsuit. The other documents were related to two banks, relating to the 130,000 paid to Stormy Daniels. He wants all of those documents as well. How is stormy weathering this . She talks tough on her twitter page, says im not going anywhere. Behind closed doors what is she sharing with her friends . Its interesting that her friends and colleagues will say she is definitely a tough person. At the same time i think theres another side to this Public Perception that she is a porn star, she does this for a living. Shes good at working the media. And she must be really enjoying this. One friend i spoke to said he spoke to her back in january and she made it clear she was stressed out about this drama unfolding on the national stage. And also that she doesnt want this story out there and has been caught off guard. When you talk to her friends, youll find out she is really a private person. Yes, she has her life out there in the adult films industry but her private life is private. Now that shes thrust into the spotlight shes trying to make the most of it, which is all really kind of fascinating. One way to put it, fascinating. Mj lee, thank you so much. Back to these ladies. Amanda, to you first. Listen, the question im going to ask you is what everyone is asking me. Do you think that in the end, these three different women could be more damaging to the president than this whole swirl of russia and the investigation . Let me explain how i think they may be related. In this case you have evidence that president s allies in the National Enquirer for Karen Mcdougal and Michael Cohen for Stormy Daniels paid hush money to hide damaging information about trump before the election. The most stunning thing about this presidency is the way that trump and his most loyal allies will cover up, lie and spread misinformation to deceive people. That is a thread i see coming through in both these scenarios. Stormy daniels has a good law r lawyer. He is more effective than the entire democratic party. He has style, confidence and he has the facts to make this matte matter. What do you think . I hear amanda but lets go back to bill clinton. Lets go back to whitewater. Whitewater was one thing. When ken starr started looking through the broad scope he started to find out about this infidelity with this intern and lied about it. He got caught on that, not whitewater. Thats whats going to happen here. You have this russia investigation, collusion. Thats not going to be found, more than likely. But you have obstruction of justice where there are some pieces that look like it could possibly be. We dont know what mueller has. If they go into those Trump Organization emails or what have you and for a lawyer to take out a home equity line of credit for 130,000, thats a lot, just before an election . This could be the last nail in the coffin. Stormy daniels is causing stormy weather. And im not talking about cabin in the sky. Im talking about serious issues for the president. Obstruction of justice, abuse of power. Tampering with an election process possibly. These other women, just to close the loop, if he goes in and is deposed and lies that is perjury and thats when he gets in big, big trouble. Ladies, thank you. Coming up next, back to our breaking story. The president s lead lawyer in this whole russia investigation calls it quits. New details on why. Stay here. When i received the diagnoses, i knew at that exact moment. Im beating this. My main focus was to find a team of doctors. Its not just picking a surgeon, its picking the care team and feeling secure in where you are. Visit cancercenter. Com breast your digestive system has billions of bacteria, but life can throw them off balance. Try align, the 1 doctor recommended probiotic. With a unique strain that realigns your system. Realign yourself, with align. Youre more than just a bathroom disease. Youre a life of unpredictable symptoms. 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John dowd quit this morning, his resignation comes as we learn what muellers team wants to zero in on if and when they get the chance to ask the president questions face to face. A former federal prosecutor and now a partner at kead waliter, joe, good to see you. What was your first thought . Two possibilities. One is that he resigned. Its the result of every lawyers nightmare, which is that you lose control of your client and no marlt what he did to keep the president in his lane, he could not control his tweets. He could not control his comments and hes violating the first tenet, which is do no harm, staunch the bleeding and dont hurt your own case. The second possibility is that he was kind of pushed out becaus because, by all are reports the president is looking for a team that will push back, bring this out of the court of law and more into the court of public opinion. Joe digenova addition adds to that credence. Were hearing he didnt want to be cocounsel with joe digenova, trafficking in these conspiracy theories and just now the strained relationship with President Trump. Now sort of four focus areas where were learning the Mueller Investigation is honing in on. The trump tower meeting, the statement that mischaracterized the trump tower meeting, crafted on Board Air Force one with the president and the firings of both of these guys. All this together, where does that tell you where this Mueller Investigation is going . None of this is a surprise, right . Its the blueprint for a very methodical, Specialized Team who will follow the facts wherever they lead. One, obstruction and collusion are still both very much on the table. Right . Each of these categories fits into one of those narratives. Each of them is a storm. Put together theyre a hurricane and pose dangers for the administration. It doesnt surprise anyone one bit that these would be the topics. Seen another way, might this be good news for the president . None of the above have anything to do with the president s financial dealings. Assuming its a mutually exclusive list and will be the extent of any potential possible interview of the president. One, a prosecutor is not going to tie his own hands, say these are the topics. I got you. Just because this list is out there and its reported, its a good list but no means would assume its everything. John moreno, thank you. Good to see you. Trumps legal team battles with three different women, three different cases, continuing to plague this presidency. One of those former playboy playmate, Karen Mcdougal, who met then reality star donald trump at a playboy Mansion Pool Party some years ago. My next guest, former apprentice contestant was at said pool party at hefners mansion, what he is saying about what he saw and heard the night he met hugh hefner. The fastest samsung ever demands tmobile, the Fastest Network ever. 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Before we get to the details of that pool party over at hugh hefners house i want to ask you about this whole mcdougal story, having this nine, tenmonth affair with donald trump that he denies. Shes suing the company that kept her story from ever being published. She wants to speak. Shes on with anderson tonight. You wrote this whole book on decoding the donald. What do you think hes thinking here . I think, to understand trump, you really have to think about the fact that hes raised in privilege and focuses on privilege and, like a small child that lashes out, when angry, whether hes suing stormy, which he shouldnt be doing, just like he shouldnt sue an author of a book that claimed that trump was worth 110 million ten years ago. That ended up being an incredibly damaging deposition but he couldnt help himself. You see his lawyer quit today, or was fired. You see someone who is angry with how things are going and just sort of lashes out and sort of this impulsiveness at the playboy mansion, he saw something he liked and couldnt help himself. I think what you see is what you get. Lets talk about the pool party. Yes. It was 2006. Season six of the apprentice. An episode where your team won the competition and your reward was this trip to the playboy mansion. And this is when donald trump reportedly met Karen Mcdougal for the first time. You roll up to hugh hefners house. Who was there . First we were greeted by his three i guess not three wives, but three girlfriends, i suppose. Dont remember all their names but they were there. And then we sort of had a discussion with hechlt fner about half an hour and there was a bunch of playmates who were out in the backyard in the grotto. Theres a zoo. They have all kinds of stuff back there. Karen mcdougal was back there and trump eventually joined us for the party. Did you know who she was at the time . She was actually pointed out. I remember that she was very friendly. She seemed everyone, actually, other than trump, of course, other than our president , seemed very gracious to everyone, was friendly, sort of mingling. And, of course, you know, the president was there and sort of Holding Court and sort of sizing everyone up. Of course, why do you say that . How do you know he was sizing them up . What did you see . Well, you kind of see his eyes and you see him looking around, and you know, at one point he turns to hugh hefner and says its hard for me to tell which ladies of these are yours and which are mine. Implying the contestants who were trying to apply for a job to work with him were his, a, and you know, saying theres no difference between them and folks who are dressed as playmates which may not have been the most responsible thing to say. Did anyone say anything after he said that . No. Of course not. That was like a crickets situation . A crickets situation. Hugh hefner might have laughed. What is your most lasting memory of that whole evening . You know, really it was just trump sort of fawning over all of the women and i think that when you go on the show you dont really know what you are getting yourself into. You think of this great businessman and these other things, or so you lead yourself to believe. And sort of to watch him be like a child in a candy store was maybe another side of him that was what i think a lot of us after all these lawsuits, in fact, one of the other contestants is one of these three folks you mentioned. Thats right. Summer zervos. Thats right. Summer zervos is one of the ones suing him for defamation. The judge just greenlit the case to go forward. One of the questions now, might there be more women . These are the three who have come forward. Im not going to ask you, listen, we dont know whether there are any other women. With all of this swirling, let me play some sound for you. The president apparently just said this. He just said when asked what advice he would give to his 25yearold self, this is it. Listen. What advice would you give to the 25yearold donald trump knowing what you know today . Dont run for president. You know, i was talking to mercedes and sarah walking off, you know, the oval office is right across the street. And i said all my life i have gotten really, you know, look, we all get every once in awhile or not, i get the greatest publicity. I was getting such great, until i ran for office. Surya, you know the guy. Your takeaway there . Yeah. I think in a very real way hes the face of the me too movement. He is the face of what i think a lot of folks are rebelling against now because his behavior over the past few decades is exactly this predatory behavior of having power over something, dangling what they want or you know, in the case of Stormy Daniels maybe hey, you want to be on the apprentice and threats and coercion and essentially using force to try to keep them from having their side of the story come out. I think when i mentioned privilege to lead off this chat, i said hey, thats what i take away from my time with him. He has this mind that he can get away with anything. Of course, maybe hes taken it a bridge too far now that hes president and the eyes of the world are on him, the eyes of cnn, the washington post, the New York Times. It doesnt surprise me all this stuff is coming out because hes felt like he couldnt be touched until now. Of course, there seems to be so many of these stories out there and so many folks like me who have seen a lot of this behavior in different contexts and say hey, i have seen this so i have seen x, y is not surprising. Got it. I got it. Surya, thank you for your perspective and your knowledge. Speaking of this woman we have been talking about, tonight on ac 360, Karen Mcdougal breaks her silence on ac 360 8 00 eastern. Do not miss that interview. Back to our breaking news this afternoon. The president s lead lawyer in the russia Investigation Called it quits. New details on why. Constipatioa can start in the colon and may be signs of an imbalance of good bacteria. Only Phillips Colon Health has this unique combination of probiotics. It helps replenish good bacteria. Get fourinone symptom defense. But im not standing still. And with godaddy, ive made my ideas real. I made my own way, now its time to make yours. 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