real heavy hitter, a serious washington lawyer. these things are real specialties, these kind of washington cases. if you re going toward s impeachment, you want somebody that understands the nuances here. and you know, i think there was a lot of concern that the he will advice the president was getting wasn t strong enough legal advice for the situation he s in. emmett flood has worked on both sides of this, inside the white house, outside the white house. so we are confirm thing from a white house official, as well. they will be putting out a statement shortly. but ty cobb was saying i ve been planning to retire. and basically he was somewhat of a package deal with john dowd. this was done at a very different time in this investigation. he was brought on board at a very different time. he s had a sometimes friendly, sometimes not so friendly relationship with this president, as everyone who works for him has. but this signals to me that the president is getting advice to,
so the question is, as we big into this, why now? how did they convince him or why did he change his mind? because it s a coup for a team that was struggling to bring respectable names on board, to have somebody like this who has been on both sides of the spectrum, defended a democratic president, and now he s going for a republican president. and is a very big hitter. we ll have to learn the details in the coming hours and days. he s not alone, though. one of his reservations for going in initially we were told, no one wants to go in alone and do this. but now there is more of a legal team. some miami lawyers, rudy giuliani, jay sekulow is still on here. but bob mueller has built a very specialized team here that s been working for so long. so it explains why he needs lawyers like this. but emmett flood, he s about as serious as you can get in this
you know, sharpen things up and fight. we should point out that he s had a hard time finding lawyers. but now, in the last really couple of weeks or so, has really lawyered up in a significant way. and they re being paid by the trump re-election campaign. it s a 20% of the of money he s raising is being spent on lawyers, at least it was in the second quarter of this year. so this is a sign that it s getting much more serious, and perhaps urgent to the president. you raise an important point, that part of the issue with the president s legal team has been their inability to hire lawyers. whether it is lawyers who work for big firms who say they have a conflict because they have a client in their firm who is caught up in the investigation, or people who don t want to do it for lots of reasons. emmett flood was one of those people who, according to our reporting, was reluctant to go in.
hire emmett t. flood, a long-time washington lawer, with a long list of high profile clients, including bill clinton and dick cheney. wow. so this is a big deal. we were talking not so long ago, feels like a couple of minutes ago about ty cobb calling in to a podcast on abc giving some rare remarks, and now we know why, because ty cobb is leaving. he made that clear in this phone interview that he did with the new york times, saying that it s an honor to serve in this capacity. i wish everyone well moving forward. but the big news is emmett flood, who is a power house, no nonsense big-deal washington attorney. he s the guy, one of the guys that you want if you are the president in this situation that the president is in. things move fast in trump s washington. i think this resolves a problem that a lot of people in trump s inner circle and elsewhere have been saying, they didn t have a
be fully satisfied with just getting written descriptions of events from the perspective of white house lawyers in response to those queries. but that would be a surprise if they were okay with that. last week, the new york times was also first to report a new lawyer would be joining the president s roster in the russia scandal at this late date. the times reported that veteran washington lawyer emmett t. flood was in discussions to join the president s team. the president himself vehemently denied that report saying not just that he wasn t hiring emmett t. flood, but that he wasn t hiring anybody. the president said, quote, the failing new york times purposely wrote a false story stating that i m unhappy with my legal team on the russia case and i m going to add another lawyer to help out. wrong! i am very happy with my lawyer, john dowd, ty cobb and jay sekulow. they are doing a great job.