victoria toensing, sara carter will have the details. that's coming up tonight. we also have new information on another major breaking news story special counsel jeff sessions is continuing to suggest that he is strongly now considering doing what we have been saying for a long time

victoria toensing, sara carter will have the details. that's coming up tonight. we also have new information on another major breaking news story special counsel jeff sessions is continuing to suggest that he is strongly now considering doing what we have been saying for a long time needed to be done. that would be appointing a second special counsel to investigate rampant feis fisa abuses and abuse within the fbi and the doj. here's what we know. the fbi lied to the fisa court by using an unverified dossier bottom bought and paid for by hillary clinton to get a warrant to spy on an associate of the trump campaign during an election. the fbi broke the fisa law. and they also did not follow the bureau's own protocols by relying heavily on what was something that they themselves should have verified and corroborated. now, remember, former fbi director andrew mccabe he testified without the dossier they wouldn't have even had a fisa application. a huge development, major scandal, i know the media ignores it, they will have egg on their face, another breaking tore se

victoria toensing, sara carter will have the details. that's coming up tonight. we also have new information on another major breaking news story special counsel jeff sessions is continuing to suggest that he is strongly now considering doing what we have been saying for a long time needed to be done. that would be appointing a second special counsel to investigate rampant feis fisa abuses and abuse within the fbi and the doj. here's what we know. the fbi lied to the fisa court by using an unverified dossier bottom bought and paid for by hillary clinton to get a warrant to spy on an associate of the trump campaign during an election. the fbi broke the fisa law. and they also did not follow the bureau's own protocols by relying heavily on what was something that they themselves should have verified and corroborated. now, remember, former fbi director andrew mccabe he testified without the dossier they wouldn't have even had a fisa application. a huge development, major scandal, i know the media ignores it, they will have egg on their face, another breaking tore se

victoria toensing, who will join us tomorrow, she is a lawyer for the uranium one informant and she is confirming tonight that the fbin field office in little rock, arkansas, is in fact investigating the clinton foundation. victoria toensing isyi saying tt her client, the informant, he had infiltrated putin's network in america when they were involved in bribery, extortion, kickbacks, and money laundering, william campbell. she saying he was interviewed by the fbi about the clinton foundation back in december of last year.. this comes after democrats tried today to damage the credibility of this informant with a smear piece full of selective leaks. it just proves how democrats are scared and they will do anything and everything to protect bill and hillary clinton. by the way, i'd like to remind them they have the right to remain silent. when we come back, the attorney general jeff sessions, he says he is seriously considering the appointment of a a second special counsel as it relates to fisa abuses and of course the clinton email server scandal. president trump's attorney, jay sekulow

well, then we learned digenova's wife and legal partner, victoria toensing was also onboard, the news surprising some analysts saying there might be some conflict of interest. then this morning, a follow up. know, the two lawyers will not be joining the president's team after all. the reason, as mentioned, the president's personal attorney points to what he calls conflicts. also this morning, this comment from the president himself. he tweets. many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the russia case. then after railing on so-called fake news, he writes, i am very happy with my existing team. besides, there was no collusion with russia, except by crooked hillary and the dems. our white house correspondent, boris sanchez, is in south florida near trump's resort, mar-a-lago. boris, tell us, what are the conflicts keeping these high-profiled lawyers off the president's legal team? >> well, ana, it's interesting, victoria toensing represents a number of other clients who are part of the russia investigation. the white house had known about that previously. toensing on her end

victoria toensing, who will join us tomorrow, she is the lawyer for the uranium one informant. and she is confirming tonight that the fbi field office in little rock, arkansas is, in fact, investigating the clinton foundation. now, victoria toensing is saying that her client, this is the informant, he had infiltrated putin's network in america when they were involved in money laundering and kick backs. campbell said interviewed by the fbi by the clinton foundation december of last year. this comes after democrats tried today to damage the credibility of this informant with a smear peaceful of selective leaks and it just proves how democrats are scared and they will do anything and everything to protect bill and hillary clinton. by the way i would like to remind them they have the right to remain silent. and when we come back, the attorney general jeff sessions, he says is he seriously considering the aappointment of a second special counsel as it relates to fisa abuses and, of course, the clinton email server scandal. president trump's attorney, jay sekulow, he reacts exclusive

well he and his wife as you see there, victoria toensing, accomplished attorney in heroin right will now not join the trump team. here's a statement from jay sekulow -- he adds -- now this and a pair of tweets from the president this morning about his legal team. he took aim about suggestions he was having trouble filling positions on his legal squad. he said this -- he adds -- so as you see once again, rick, the president being a pugilist in social media fighting back as always. >> of course, and kevin, there are questions tonight about the president's pick to become national security adviser, what can you tell us about that? reporter: yes. this is a story that we've been following for quite some time. ambassador john bolton, formerly the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., suggestion from current virginia governor -- i'm sorry, virginia senator tim kaine, and former virginia governor function the commonwealth politics. the former vp choice for the democrats is suggesting that somehow john bolton could have problems getting his security clearance. he suggests it's because he recorded this

jay sekulow said the president is disappointed that conflicts prevent joe digenova and victoria toensing from joining the president's special counsel legal team. however, those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the president in other legal matters. while this follows the news last week, trump's lead attorney john dowd resigned and reports he had butted heads with his president. also after reports ted olson turned down an offer to represent the president as did impeach lawyer. despite all this, trump reverted to his bragging. many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the russian case. don't believe the fake news narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on. fame and fortune will never be turned down by a lawyer, though some are conflicted. the problem is that a new lawyer or law firm will take months to get up to speed. if for no other reason than they can bill more. that's all trump talking, which is unfair to our great country. more trump. and i'm very happy with my existing team. besides, there was no collusion with russia except by crook

attorneys joseph digenova and his wife, victoria toensing, they have a law firm, they met with the president on the same day that playboy pinup karen mcdougal tells cnn that trump tried to pay her after sex during their affair. and then friday, trump threatened to veto the omnibus spending bill because of daca and his border wall, but ended up signing it anyway. and then, today, we find out that digenova is not going to be part of the legal team. whoo. that's a lot. all right. so, tim, you know, it has been a very complicated week. i'm sure the white house wants to be optimistic that this will not be a complicated week upcoming, but you know, they have to recover. how does it? >> how -- well, one of the ways they recover, i assume, is by not having so much visual -- visible chaos. having a stable team around the president. so that we can get used to certain people representing him. the other is by not telling us or indicating he'll do one thing and then doing something else. he was hurt by the uncertainty surrounding whether or not he would veto the spending bill. if he wants to send the sig

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if victoria toensing and joe digenova are working on with the special counsel, they can't import that information over to the defense of their would-be client donald trump. they may have information that they wouldn't be able to use in defending trump and therefore they couldn't, if you will, put their best play on the field in defense of the president. >> it's kind of like the parable of the blind man and the elephant. it's true some have spoken to mr. mueller but they don't know what pieces -- they know what they answered when asked by the special prosecutor but they don't know where it fits in. >> right. we heard that mark corallo was willing to waive his but he can't see the full picture. the people who can see the full picture are mueller, the agents, the investigators, people who know what all the different witnesses have said and how all the different pieces fit together. corallo may not be able to see that and it may be why he was so willing to waive the conflict if that is accurate. >> so we can't see the president today. we know only from his schedule he had lunch with vice

joe digenova and victoria toensing, from tv. so john dowd took himself out. that all happened, though, before the president had actually met these two new lawyers anywhere other than through his tv screen. and when they finally arrived at the white house on thursday night, turns out the president didn't like them as much as he had on tv. a white house official described them as dishevelled in their appearances when they arrived at the white house. the president was not as impressed with them in person as he had been when they had the tv makeup on and the underlighting and you can't see that pants. anyway, that is how we have arrived at the president not really having a legal team on the russia scandal anymore. jay sekulow is his one outside attorney now. he's also a fox news guy. he has been, spent this week trying to calm everybody down by saying it's not just him. he's got other people working with hem frim from his conserva activist legal group. that includes, we learned today, the author of this book "byzantine rome and the greek popes". he has a phd in m

toensing and her husband, joseph digenova, seen here playing the evil foster parents who want to send beethoven to the pound. but then they said they couldn't do it because of conflicts of interest. and yesterday, trump was rejected by two more prominent attorneys, tom buchanan and dan webb, who both rejected an offer to join president trump's legal team, citing business conflicts. "oh, i'd love to be your lawyer, donald, but i've got conflicts! turns out, i'm already scheduled to ride a mechanical bull made of cheese graters then squat in a bowl of gin. and i'd rather do that." ( laughter ) ( applause ) mechanical bull fans. ( cheers and applause ) ( laughter ) yeah, yeah. i was in the mime rodeo for a while. ( laughter ) now this part's weird. some people are speculating that robert mueller may have told trump that mueller had concerns about trump's own rights. and that "diligent prosecutors, when they see a defendant doing something profoundly dangerous to their self-interest, including hiring lawyers who have conflicts, will raise it with the defendant and suggest they rethink it.

toensing and joe digenova, will not join his legal team only days after their appointment was announced. digenova is a former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia who has claimed trump is being framed by fbi and justice department officials. last thursday, trump's top lawyer, john dowd, quit the legal team, reportedly resigning after trump repeatedly ignored his legal advice and attacked robert mueller by name on twitter. president trump has signed a memorandum banning most transgender people from serving in the u.s. military. the new policy, signed friday, comes after president trump announced unexpectedly on twitter last july he was banning all transgender people from u.s. military service. transgender troops have sued the administration over the policy. a pentagon spokesperson told the washington blade late friday that the military "will still comply with federal court rulings and continue to assess and retain transgender service members." "the new york times" reports the pentagon carried out its first ever drone strike against alleged al-qaeda militants in southern libya over

toensing and joe digenova, will not join his legal team only days after their appointment was announced. digenova is a former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia who has claimed trump is being framed by fbi and justice department officials. last thursday, trump's top lawyer, john dowd, quit the legal team, reportedly resigning after trump repeatedly ignored his legal advice and attacked robert mueller by name on twitter. presesident trump has signed a memorandum banning most transgender people from serving in the u.s. military. the new policy, signed friday, comes after president trump announced unexpectedly on twitter last july he was banning all transgender people from u.s. military service. transgender troops have sued the administration over the policy. a pentagon spokesperson told the washington blade late friday that the military "will still comply with federal court rulings and continue to assess and retain transgender servicece members." "the new york times" reports the pentagon carried out its first ever drone strike against alleged al-qaeda militants in southern libya o

the fact is i don't think joe digenova or victoria toensing could work for him, no lawyer is going to last when they know a client lies. one of the things i point out through six years, seven years of whitewater in the white house. there's only one lawyer who represented bill clinton and all the way through impeachment, the same lawyer and law fifrrm. people like me and other lawyers stayed loyal to president clinton. this man doesn't command loyalty from people who work in the white house. and that kind of bad chemistry between client and lawyer is impossible. it's poisonous. >> you make the fascinating historical point. viewers may think, gosh, it seems like they fire a lot of people all the time. there is turnover, but to your point, the notion of this much turnover week to week in the people who know your secrets and are there to stand between you and your aides and jail something else entirely. thanks to each of you. also new tonight, stormy daniels, brand-new, filing a new suit against michael cohen, donald trump's lawyer. it all relates to the "60 minutes" interview, and we las

and his wife, also as attorney victoria toensing. the president foreshadowed this on twitter earlier in the day. we received a specific confirmation from jay sekulow who is an attorney for the president representing him in the russian investigation. he said conflicts prevent them from joining the president's special counsel legal team. those do not prevent them from assisting the president in other legal matters. the president looks forward to working with them. conflicts, what is that referring to? it is typical when lawyers join a team, you have to look through their other client base and see if there are conflicts of interest if you're representing this client and this client. that does hold in this case because victoria representing mark corallo who had retained her earlier and he had been a part of the broader legal team as a spokesman for mark kasowitz, one of the president's earlier attorneys who still represents him in real estate matters. that kind of overlap is a problem on a legal team. and so although it had been announce

. >> his attorney, victoria toensing, went to the justice department and negotiated a dpeel to let him talk to congress. then because he talked to congress and his story got out, we've been able to interview him. fbi counter intelligence file that, shows what doug campbell did. his story and those facts do not match who rod rosenstein's prosecutors told congress. they still don't have his story right. the facts are in these files. congress could have access to them. somebody should take a look. we're talking about being tough on russia. seven years ago we gave the boat away on uranium, did it knowing that the russians were engaged in criminal activity on our soil, compromising our national security. that's what doug campbell's story is all about. >> sean: we know about russia and hillary paid for a phony dossier, with russian sources, by a foreign national. it seems like with no russia could lux, evidence that i've seen, maybe you've seen, i haven't, no collusion, all fingers point back to the left, to the democrats, over there. >> you know, you hear democrats saying president trump ha

toensing from joining his legal team. president trump tweeted, many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the russia case. don't believe the fake news narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on. it will take months to get up to speed, if for no other reason that they can bill more, which is unfair to our country. and i'm happy with our team. besides, there was no collusion with russia except by crooked hillary and the democrats. joining me is john mclaughlin, great to have you with us. i want to read you something by john dowd. he quit, kristen welker was reporting. this kind of building up tension within the legal team. they want to introduce the president. john dowd says the president thinks he can handle it how risky when there is this heightened tension. it is absolutely crazy. >> i think the problem is one have you too many chefs in the kitchen. whenever you have attorneys of a high caliber who have experience, who know what they're doing. oftentimes they will butt heads in terms

victoria toensing is representing one of the president's spokesmen. they parted ways in 2017. >> i think we're seeing a sense of frustration with the president that the russia investigation is still going on and in fact seems to be broadening in scope and not winding down. judd dowd and some of his other lawyers have been telling him for months now that the investigation was reaching its conclusion, supposedly that was going to happen around the time of the holidays, then the start of the year, now we're headed into april and we haven't even really gotten to a final terms of what the president's interview would be and that's not even necessarily the final step in the investigation. so i think what we're seeing is president trump growing more and more impatient with his legal team, who seems to have not told the truth when they were telling him what the timing of this investigation would look like a and he's trying to find someone get where he wants it to be, get the investigation behind him. >> do you feel the president is confident with his legal tea

yet again lawyers joseph digenova and victoria toensing will not but joining after all. new additions to the president's team they were announced just days ago, but now we have that news today that they will not be. let's bring in msnbc national security analyst frank figliuzzi. frank, let's drill down on that new news today that digenova and toensing will not be joining the team with the mueller case for the president. when you read the proverbial tea leaves, what do you take away from that? >> despite the president's assertions, it surely appears that chaos is reigning, particularly when it comes to the legal team. it's at a crucial time when they're entering into negotiation with mueller and the team about the parameters and constraints about what an interview might look like with the president. so now if you're sitting on mueller's team, you're actually scratching your head saying who are we negotiating with? who is it we're negotiating with? the other thing that comes out today, richard, is this conflicting report of, well, it was the president meeting with digenova

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two washington attorneys, joe digenova and his wife, victoria toensing announcing over the weekend they cannot join the president's legal team due to conflicts of interests. president trump tweeted, quote, many lawyers in top law firms want to represent me in the russian case. don't believe the fake news narrative it is hard to find a lawyer that wants to take this on. fame and fortune will never be turned down by a lawyer, though some are conflicted. the turmoil couldn't come at a more crucial time as the president's attorneys, the attorney who was doing it isn't there anymore, john dowd, negotiated an interview between trump and mueller's investigators. my panel, christine quinn and matt welch. how was this not vetted, either by the white house or by them? >> i don't understand it. we were talking at the break, the wife is a lawyer. i've been asked to be in different boards in government capacities, private citizen capacities, and i always have to check with her to make sure her firm doesn't have any business relevant to that board. >> if they do, you say no and it doesn't get announc

toensing can't represent me in this matter, there is stuff they can help me on. most presidents don't say i'm so screwed i might need lawyers for that problem -- the idea, though, that the white house statement itself channelled the conflicts with corallo and said we may very well need their help on another front. >> nicolle, let's take the big picture. donald trump is the subject of investigation by bob mueller on three fronts -- >> how do you know that? as obvious as a lawyer? >> you don't act guilty if you're not guilty. secondly we know what bob mueller is looking at as an investigator's investigator. first, is there financial exposure to russia or other state based on the dealings of trump organization. the likelihood for that is very high. secondly it is the two areas that tripped up bill clinton. obstruction of justice and perjury. we know this president, if he has not already engage in them, will engage in them. why can he not hire counsel? very simply, bill clinton himself was an attorney and despite whatever you think about the impeachment, he lost his

steve: sounds like joe and victoria toensing going to sign on because their firm represents some other people involve in the probe. they will not be representing the president. it sounds like according to some news reports, hogan, that as early as today, the president could expel a number of russian diplomats in solidarity with the great british, the folks over in great britain because they expelled 2 people after that poisoning of the spy and his daughter using that toxic nerve agent. >> right. well, the president has been very clear that we will impose costs on russia when it is in our interest to do so. and, when it's in our interest to work with russia, we will do that as well. this president has not softened or weakened any position that barack obama had on russia and, in fact, he has gone much further. you will remember we gave lethal aid to the crew ukraine. we sent troops into syria. we even expanded oil exports into eastern europe. something barack obama didn't do. so this president knows what's right on the international stage and how the deal with russia and when we need the

and that's a religious freedom expert jay second la -- and joe digenova and his wife, victoria toensing said they can't join because of conflict of interest but could assist in other legal matters. shortly before the announcement trump cleared, many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the russia case, don't believe the fake news narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this case on. fame and fortune will never be turned down by a lawyer. though some are conflicted. the problem is that a new lawyer or law firm will take months to get up to speed if for no other reason to charge more money. can't be stressed enough, he's a sitting president with personal wealth and few if any white shoe firms want to work with him. anybody that knows donald trump and has known him for over a decade knows why. first of all, he doesn't tell the truth. that's a nightmare for any lawyer. if you can't as a lawyer get your client in a room and say you have to tell me the truth. if you don't tell me the truth i can't represent you. i can't do my job. they know, one, donald trump

toensing after being interviewed last week. boris, you first. the president lashing out at that russian investigation and money for his border wall in a series of tweets this morning, but no mention of the upcoming stormy daniels interview to air tonight. so what is the president's frame of mind? >> reporter: hey there, fred. yeah, no signal from president trump how he feels about this stormy daniels saga. cnn had previously reported that he had been talking to close friends and advisers asking them for counsel on how he should respond to allegations he had an affair with the adult film actress and further that he allegedly paid her, through his attorney michael cohen, $130,000 to keep quiet in 2016 just weeks before the presidential election. the president clearly opting to stay silent. he has faced a number of questions from reporters not only about stormy daniels but also about karen mcdougal, the former playboy playmate that anderson interviewed earlier this week who also alleges she had an affair with president trump. we a