another reason this is potentially important, under the strict rules that govern the way the white house and the department of justice are supposed to have contact with each other, the white house counsel don mccann is actually one of the officials who is allowed to have direct contact with the justice department, but the whole reason those rules exist is to prevent the white house, any white house, from having untoward influence on law enforcement decisions that are made at the justice department. there is a reason there is strict rules about not very many people from the white house being allowed to speak to justice department officials. don mccann is one of the people allowed to speak to the justice department under those very strict rules but if he was sent to the justice department by the president, specifically to interfere with the justice department on a law enforcement matter, specifically to interfere with jeff sessions' recusal decision, how they administer the rule of law, then that would be a pretty obvious