WATCH Rachel Maddow Describe The Bizarre Phone Call Her Show Had With A Trump Attorney

The White House is in full damage control mode. As more revelations leak out suggesting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is now zeroing in on President Trump’s finances, the Trump legal team demoted attorney Marc Kasowitz as senior counsel and replaced him with John Dowd.

Rachel Maddow began her show Friday evening describing what she believes is taking place inside the White House:

“The White House is going nuclear. Like, break glass in case of emergency.”

New attorney Dowd, however, didn’t exactly get off to a great start, telling Bloomberg that reports of Deutsche Bank’s dealings with the president are not relevant to the Russia investigation:

“Those transactions are in my view well beyond the mandate of the special counsel. They’re unrelated to the election of 2016 or any alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and most importantly, they are well beyond any statute of limitations imposed by the U.S. Code.”

That certainly piques your interest, and it certainly did Maddow’s. She commented:

“Who said anything about statute of limitations? Why are you bringing that up? The statute of limitations for prosecuting what crimes exactly?”

Hoping to get some clarity, a producer for the Rachel Maddow Show called Dowd and managed to get through to him. Dowd told the producer:

“We have no evidence that any of these [Trump business] entities are under investigation. I’m beginning to think it’s not true. I’m beginning to wonder where the hell it came from.”

“This is the last call we’ll ever have.”

WTF?! One minute it’s that the statute of limitations have run out on some unspecified crime, and the next the story isn’t true? Can someone explain what in the hell is going on here?! Maddow concluded:

“Some days are weirder than others in this job. But you never really expect them to get that weird in conversation with the lead attorney for the president of the United States.”

Here’s the segment from Maddow’s Friday show:

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