in the woodward book, he is the trump russia lawyer on the left. ty cobb is the russia lawyer on the right, the one with the amazing mustache. both men are now gone from the white house. both had a long time in the white house working on the russia investigation. one of the main points of contention and drama in the john dowd parts of this book is that john dowd doesn t want trump to testify to mueller, and cobb is portrayed as wanting that and said in fact the president should and will do that. from page 353 of the book, dowd says, quote, i regret the day i ever recommended ty cobb, and i can t believe that he undermined me. well, says president trump, i asked him to speak out and show that the president was not afraid to testify. john dowd replies, he should have declined that request from you, mr. president. he is a government employee. and by the way, they can call him as a witness. he has no privilege with you, meaning no attorney-client privilege in his conversations with the pre
before that in the book, literally on the same page. still john dowd there is a lot of john dowd in the book. page after page after page of direct quotes from john dowd. but here is how he reportedly quit being donald trump s russia lawyer. and herein another story i want to know about. all right. hear from the book. quote, once more on air force one, trump called his lawyer. are you happy? the president asked? no, dowd said, i m not happy. mr. president, i feel like i failed. i failed as your lawyer. i know, that john. i know you re frustrated, says the president. dowd responds, i am. i don t mind telling you, i regret the day i ever recommended ty cobb. now, just brief refresher here, john dowd, the guy who has lots and lots and lots of real estate in the woodward book, he is the trump russia lawyer on the left. ty cobb is the russia lawyer on the right, the one with the amazing mustache. both men are now gone from the white house. both had a long time in the
policing all these other areas and we definitely shouldn t be the ones to go in places like venezuela, syria, kiev. ukraine. because it s their battle, their war. but when some of our allies like israel starts to get a little nervous about what s going on in iran, you have to help. but you don t do it you can do it smarter with drones, aircraft. on syria, actually, our intervention earlier in syria would have helped our ally, israel. it s all interconnected. we don t get to decide who is going to help us in the future. i have to play, and you can react. that goes that actually goes to dana s point. diplomat your ass. bob. he s a contributor and friend and an amazing mustache. give him that. here s bolton. i think the president wants to reduce the size of the military, to reduce our international capabilities. this has nothing to do with budget savings giving the extraordinary increase in budget
ecstatic, holding a copy of the chicago tribune. that newspaper, like practically every newspaper in every political hack in the country that year, had written truman off, picked dewey to defeat him. he didn t. truman won. that is dewey with the amazing mustache. he was in his day seen as the inevitable candidate. had been the republican presidential nominee in 1944, when he loss to fdr, was the republican nominee for president again in 1948, when he lost to truman, even though everybody thought he would win. this year, when i look in the eyes of mitt romney, i will admit i have been seeing bob dole but frank rich at new york magazine when he looks in the ice i eyes of mitt romney he sees thomas dewey. frank rich tends to see these things earlier than most of us do. and it s probably true the name dewey would make for a defeatist
chicago tribune. that newspaper, like practically every newspaper in every political hack in the country that year, had written truman off, picked dewey to defeat him. but he didn t. truman won. that is dewey with the amazing mustache. he was in his day seen as the inevitable candidate. had been the republican presidential nominee in 1944, when he lost to fdr, was the republican nominee for president again in 1948, when he lost to truman, even though everybody thought he would win. this year, when i look in the eyes of mitt romney, i will admit i have been seeing bob dole but frank rich at new york magazine when he looks in the eyes of mitt romney he sees thomas dewey. he was once called the little man on the wedding cake. frank rich tends to see these things earlier than most of us do. and it s probably true the name dewey would make for a defeatist