the job, joseph digenova and victoria tensing, conflicted out, suggested their client, former trump legal team spokesman mark curallo, offered testimony damaging to trump. in new reporting from vanity fair, a former acting solicitor general under president obama, has this provocative analysis. the conflict of interest issue was apparent on tuesday, and yet we were told they were joining the team and mark curallo, with the most significant conflict, waived any concern. dowd resigns. by sunday digenova and tensing are gone leaving the president with two lawyers. vanity fair reports, that strange development means mueller, when they see someone doing something profoundly dangerous to their self-interest will raise it with the defendant and suggest they rethink it.
investigation certainly doesn t look like it would be going away. they had told the president it would be over by this point, and it certainly isn t. now, he s only being represented solely by jay sekulow now? well, he has mark kaowitz from last summer. the president s longtime lawyer from new york. he s still involved. sekulow is front and center here on the investigation. john dowd having quit last week. he still has ty cobb in the white house. and sort of came in search of more lawyers when you need a lot of lawyers to prepare for such an important event. absolutely. and one of the other ones, paul, when it comes to this, reporting for the new york times this morning is that one of the other conflicts of course, that victoria tensing representing mark carolo, and he was the guy
because it seemed to be oddly defensive on, i guess, his legal team. and it s sort of like this is what s on his mind this morning. many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the russia case, he says. fame and fortune will never be turned down by a lawyer, though some are conflicted. kasie hunt, what he s referring to on the conflicted is joe digenova, his wife victoria tensing, both of whom they want to have joined the team who have some conflict of interest issues that they re trying to change. it s interesting that i think the president i guess is trying to erase doubt that he s having doubts on digenova, i don t know. it seems that way. it seems to be a situation where he wants people on his team who are saying things in public that he agrees with. the clip that you played in the beginning of the show from digenova saying, look, the president is being set up. that s what he wants to hear. by the fbi and the doj, that s what the president wants to hear. john dowd,
training. dowd is definitely out. there are some mixtures of personalities here that don t make a whole lot of sense on paper. what is the state of play? as of tonight at this time. as of this very moment what we believe the state of play is that they re still sorting it out. we may see another subtraction from the team, some more additions to the team. there s questions about whether digenova may bring his wife on, if he does what would that look like. obviously, there are conflicts of interest because they represent a number of witnesses in the investigation. there s reporting that there have been waivers so they are able to take on donald trump as a client if they want to. but it s all still a little bit in flux, and they re saying that it will be finalized in the coming days. paul, because everything in cable reaches full circle, victoria tensing and joe digenova, her husband, have been guests on this network going back years and years and years on a variety of different legal
the president is his own man. speaking of another voice who may or may not be at the table. joe digeonva. everybody was all aflutter with wow, he is brought on as a new lawyer to this trump team. you have news that suggests otherwise. his role is now in flux. monday, jay sekulow, counsel to the president, said that joe digenova was going to join the legal team and john dowd up and quit, who was on the legal team. we re learning that the president met with joe digenova and his wife, victoria tensing, who might also join the legal team. while the president liked their message, he s not convinced that they re right for the job.