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 abou
any time he gets a chance as a complete failure when it comes to north korea. so, now you ve heard sarah sanders. listen to president obama, back in 2015 when he talked about his administration meeting with north korea. at the point where pyongyang says we are interested in seeing relief from sanctions and improved relations, and we are prepared to have a serious conversation about denukeization, i think it s fair to say we ll be right there at the table. denuclearization. okay, ryan nobles outfront at the white house. incredible statement. then a statement, then walk back, now the white house trying to, well, clarify again or reclarify. reporter: yeah, erin, confusion is a very appropriate
continue to apply maximum pressure until north korea abandons nuclear program once and for all. as you just pointed out, that isn t a whole lot different from the position that the obama administration before donald trump took office. so even though last night it seemed like history was about to be made, it s pretty clear here tonight, erin, that there is a whole number of things that have to happen before donald trump and kim jong-un meet face-to-face. right. thank you very much, ryan. and now also breaking at this moment a second message delivered to president trump from kim jong-un by south korea. will ripley outfront with the breaking details from seoul. will, what are you learning about this message? reporter: erin, i ve just confirmed with south korea presidential office second office hasn t been publicly disclosed, in fact the contents of which kept secret but direct message from kim jong-un to president trump. we are told it was not a request for easing of sanctions or