in this scandal and related matters. what do you make of the fact that the president s legal team has been so in flux and doesn t appear to involve anybody who has relevant experience. the president has had difficulty attracting the people who have the most experience. he s also lost some of the lawyers that he started with. mr. kasowitz left, although he apparently is consulting with mr. trump by phone, mr. dowd has left. and one wonders, maybe having lawyers of that experience is not all that important. he ll have the lawyers he wants to work with, he ll direct them in how he wants them to behave. worse comes to worse, he will take the position that mr. sekulow has articulated, that the president cannot in fact be prosecuted for obstruction of justice and he ll offer pardons and he can t be questioned about
variant on the as far as i can recall , although it s not stated that way. it s hard for me to separate controversies in reporting and the ongoing troubles the president is having assembling a stable and talented legal team to defend him and represent him in this scandal and related matters. what do you make of the fact that the president s legal team has been so in flux and doesn t appear to have anybody that has experience. the president has had difficulty atrabtsing the people who have the most experience. he s also lost some of the lawyers that he started with. mr. kasowitz left, although he apparently is consulting with mr. trump by phone, mr. dowd has left. and won o one wonders, maybe having lawyers of that experience is not important. he ll have the lawyers, direct
cobb, but he added while trump has talked with close associates about the possibility of dismissing cobb, the president has told cobb he does not plan to let him go. schmidt s new reporting suggests that the president is considering restoring mark cassowitz to a larger role. kasowitz had run the legal team physical he was pushed out last summer. kasowitz supports the probe. now, former white house strategist steve bannon alluded to the that strategy while speaking yesterday in new york. ty cobb and john dowd had a radical theory. let s totally cooperate and waive executive privilege. i have said, as i told the president and told everybody and i told brother dowd, i think tease wrong. there s a process. there s a process that reagan used, there s a process that clinton used, there s a process that bush used. and i think you ought to go through that process.
months is likely to bring outstanding lawyers out of the woodwork. you have joe digenova s being hired clearly had an effect on dowd quitting or leaving the team. there was no way that you could compare these two, two types of lawyers. the president has a chaotic management style across the board but the way he is managing his lawyers, for example, telling them he s going to keep them on while interviewing their replacements behind their backs. all of this is completely inconsistent with what a client needs to get the best possible work out of their lawyers. so we re seeing here in the legal team sort of a replication of the same i think self defeating behavior we see with the president elsewhere. what does it tell us about highi i hiring joe digenova, bringing in his long-time lawyer, kasowitz, what does it tell us about whether he might talk to mueller
and what approach he might take to the probe? if you were to guess where all of this might be heading, if there is a rationale, seems like he s moving from a more conciliatory to a more combative style. the other piece about the kasowitz involvement from press reports and again going to management style he s apparently having conversations with kasowitz who s not a member of the legal team but who s sort of giving the president the advice on the fly. again without the knowledge of the formal legal team. again this is a recipe for disaster in the representation of a client. when while his own legal team here were negotiating terms of engagement with mueller, what kind of interview, where, whether it s with lawyers present which obviously they would want in the white house wi, not marching into some grand jury room. while they re negotiating with mueller he s reading tweets attacking the special counsel and the white house is at the same time sending out tweets he s going to