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“This also tells me that the president finally recognizes how serious the Mueller probe is,” Napolitano said on Fox News's “Outnumbered.” “He finally is moving in the direction of Rudy Giuliani to head the outside team, Emmet Flood to head the inside team.”

The senior legal analyst praised both recent additions as “top-shelf, very gifted” lawyers but noted that it is “very late in the game for a change of this magnitude.”

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“There is no one on the president’s team that’s been there since day one. And with the departure of Ty Cobb, there will be no one on the president’s team who’s personally familiar with the hundreds of thousand of pages of documents that the president has surrendered to special counsel,” Napolitano said.

Cobb, Trump’s point person in the White House for the Mueller probe, announced earlier Wednesday that he was leaving the president’s legal team. Flood, who represented Clinton during his impeachment proceedings, will replace him.

The switch-up on the legal team marks the latest shift among Trump's attorneys in recent weeks.

Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City and U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, joined the team last month and has been negotiating with Mueller about a potential interview with Trump. John Dowd also resigned as Trump's attorney in March.

The New York Times reported Monday on a list of possible questions that Mueller was planning to ask the president during a possible interview, but a Washington Post report Tuesday stated that the questions were created by Trump's lawyer Jay Sekulow Jay Alan SekulowNow, we need the election monitors Judge denies Trump's request for a stay on subpoena for tax records Judge throws out Trump effort to block subpoena for tax returns MORE.

The Post also reported that Mueller had suggested subpoenaing Trump to appear before a grand jury if he declined to interview in the probe.