(CNN) President Donald Trump's legal defense against Robert Mueller's unrelenting special counsel investigation is beginning to look as chaotic as his early days in the White House. The competency of Trump's team came into focus after a weekend of ill-advised tweets and an explosive interview with Axios by Trump's personal attorney John Dowd on Monday. Michael Hayden, the former director of the CIA and the National Security Agency, told CNN's "New Day" on Tuesday that the decision by Trump's team to resort to technical arguments may reflect Trump's legal jeopardy. "It's interesting as a technical legal issue, but the president's lawyers intend to present a fact-based defense, not a mere legal defense," Cobb told The Washington Post. Another explanation for Trump's tactics is that they are designed to give ammunition to his media cheerleaders who want to discredit the Mueller probe.

Source: CNN December 05, 2017 06:03 UTC