tell you about on the russia investigation. a source confirms president trump called for special counsel robert mueller's firing last june, but backed down when his own white house counsel threatened to quit. joining me on the phone with more on this is cnn political analyst josh dawsey, white house reporter for "the washington post." josh, thank you so much. i understand you have new information about who tried to intervene so that the president wouldn't do this. >> right. don, so what we were able to report tonight is in the time period, there was a possible concern inside the white house he was actually going to pull the trigger on this, leading his former chief of staff, reince priebus, and former strategist and others to ask for intervention, basically talk to the president's friends, associates, aids and say how can we talk him out of this? there was a series of conversations in the white house during that period because the president was fixated on this.
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