deny the new york times report about the president trying to fire you, correct? correct. in fact, the president s counsel was so alarmed by the prospect of the president s meeting with mcgahn that he called mr. mcgahn s counsel and said that mcgahn could not resign no matter what happened in the oval office that day, correct? correct. so it s accurate to say that the president knew that he was asking mcgahn to deny facts that mcgahn, quote, had repeatedly said were accurate, unquote, isn t that right? correct. your investigation also found, quote, by the time of the oval office meeting with the president, the president was aware, one, that mcgahn did not think the story was false, two, did not want to issue a statement or create a written report denying facts that
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call don mcgahn, said you have to correct the record. i can t work in an environment where we re not being within the lines of what the truth is and what really happened. is there a possibility that rosenstein is so hot about this he might resign his position? i don t think so. from the people i ve talked to, he really likes this job as deputy attorney general, believes that he s the right guy to lead the department, day-to-day operations and overseeing the probe of russia and russia s meddling in the u.s. election, and this was just his way to push back at the white house. others have reported he threatened to resign. we didn t get that far in our reporting. we found he basically said let s set the record straight. you know what happened, the white house did, right after that started talking about how this was at the president s