were for wanting to bring him on the team, we know it came at a very high cost. it caused his lead lawyer on the russia scandal to quit and walk out. maybe that kind of a risk, maybe that kind of a trade-off felt worth it at the time to the president but that was a bad calculation. because we now know that at the time the president took that risk and thereby watched his lead russia lawyer, watched john dowd walk out the door because of it, at the time the president hadn t even met joe digenova yet, this new guy he was bringing in. it cost the president so much to bring on this new guy and then when he finally met this new guy, turns out he didn t like him. thursday night joe digenova and his wife were finally invited to the white house to meet the president for the first time and the president didn t like them. according to politico.com, the couple looked disheveled