act, it s a dereliction of the basic duty to defend the country. joining us now, senior white house correspondent for bloomberg, who broke today s story about trump s lawyers, and mieke eoyang, the vice president for the national security program at third way. margaret, so this is obviously a change in style for trump lawyers and the new lawyer, mr. dowd, is the one with the kind of experience that one would expect this from. so, lawrence, this has been going on, as you know now, for about almost three weeks, these deliberations about what to do after james comey testified that he had these memos, that he had in fact leaked those memos i m using the word in quotes to someone who would get it to the press, and that his whole intention was in part to try to force the triggering of a special counsel. we know that president trump was incredibly frustrated after that, and that s where this
this is on the obstruction piece of it. comey s memos are also on the question of what was russia doing and who responded. what did they say? they re going to want to go back and ask those people on how russia conducted its election interference as well. and, margaret, back to the president s defense. is there a feeling now within the white house, do we know, that the lawyers and it seems like it s dowd who is the new addition here, who is not the flamboyant not, not the one going out there doing press conferences and going as a guest on television shows, who may have gotten control of this. do they feel in the white house that dowd actually has control of the president now in this investigation? well, there has been a real firewalling or really attempt to firewall both the white house, you know, don mcgahn and the president s advisers from the legal size and at the same time this addition of jay sec ykulowd