that s true. he went through a change on that. he was talking about firing the special counsel and not having tried to do so as michael schmidt on served, this is the first to report he took action. i think my republican colleagues will be more interested. they ought to be more interested, in fact, i ll put it bluntly. they have a constitutional responsibility to act now and there is enough here that really requires them to look in the mirror and say now is the time to do my duty to the united states of america and protect the rule of law. we have seen a change in the president s statements about the investigation, statements about robert mueller over time. since he brought on his current legal team, it seems like he s advised to stop making aggressive statements personally.
counsel, it has to be a strain. it has to at least be a drama to have him working in the white house every day in this incredibly important job given the reporting about the conflicts with the president on these important matters. that s the thing. mcgahn s deputies basically misled the president to tell him that he didn t have the authority to fire the fbi director without cause because they were afraid of what the president would do. it seems like time and time again there are examples of the aids or lawyers trying to stop him from doing things they believe will hurt him or his presidency. this was in june, a month after comey was fired and it was clear that did not go over well and that was a huge problem for them. and once again, here you are in the month of june and the president saying let s get rid of mueller. i think there was concern about well, the republicans are not going to they lost the democrats but certainly, republicans on the hill were not going to take well to th
trump ordered mueller fired but backed off when white house counsel treated hrea threatened. the sourcing here is four people, four people told of the matter so here is how they start. according to four people told of the matter last june president trump ordered the firing of mueller. the president ultimately backed down, though, after the white house counsel threatened to resign rather than carry out the directive. this west wing confrontation marks the first time mr. trump is known to have fired excuse me, the first time mr. trump has known to have tried to fire the special counsel, which makes me think were there other times he tried and failed to fire the special counsel? this confrontation marks the first time he was known to have tried to fire the special counsel. you re saying okay, the
relentlessly and we re in for a fight. you re a former prosecutor yourself. when you say that you doubt the president came up with this list of alleged conflicts of interest for robert mueller, that he must have had help in preparing this case that s been reported in the new york times , this case supposed to under lay the order to fire mueller which he issued last june, if that case against mueller was cooked up and was about trying to shut down the investigation, therefore wasn t a legitimate action by the president, it was obstruction of justice. if somebody else helped him cook that up and construct that case, is it the should the judiciary committee, should mueller himself be looking into somebody else in that possible obstruction of justice. the answer is unequivocally yes to both questions. the judiciary committee should be looking into it because obstruction of justice and the threat to law enforcement is directly within our responsibility.
seem particularly strong, they may even appear to be pretext e pretextural. this is just the excuse we ll use. the drama is his white house counsel that serves reportedly told the president no, i won t make that. i ll quit in protest. a remarkable story, remarkable threat in terms of firing the special counsel and a remarkable mystery as to why this is coming out now. we got a u.s. senator who is very much in the middle of the investigation particularly on the obstruction part of this who is live in studio with us next. stay with us.