house counsel don mcgahn, vacant when she left the treasure. today s her last day. vice president mike pence also today lost the domestic policy director and also lost his chief lawyer, lost two senior staffers in a day. white house chief of staff john kelly s senior adviser is also out. the white house says they found some other job for him at a foreign aid agency and out of the white house. and now the head of the nsa an cyber command said he is out, as well. as of this spring. and literally those are just the people we learned about today. i mean, if you are trying to keep track of the departures list from the trump administration, it s an auctioneer s challenge. chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, a communications director for the office of public lee yeah i don t know, press secretary, two communications directors, a rapid response director, two deputy national
counsel mueller. someone i know to be of the highest character and integrity. served as the director of the fbi for 12 years, was extended by at the request of president obama and was agreed to by the congress. yeah. there s no one of higher integrity than bob mueller. yeah. but yet, was the investigation, obviously, getting closer and closer here, poses apparently, in the minds of those in the white house, a threat. so the objective here, lash out, criticize, undermine, demean, and marginalize. and that has been taken up regrettably by other republicans. yeah. i have to ask you, and let s talk a little bit more about the investigation. we ve learned that the white house s chief lawyer, don mcgahn, told the president in january that he believed that
integrity than bob mueller. yeah. but yet, because the investigation, obviously, getting closer and closer here, poses apparently, in the minds of those in the white house, a threat. so the objective here, lash out, criticize, undermine, demean, and marginalize. and that has been taken up regrettably by other republicans. yeah. i have to ask you, and let s talk a little bit more about the investigation. we ve learned that the white house s chief lawyer, don mcgahn, told the president in january that he believed that then national security adviser, michael flynn, had lied to the vice president and misled the fbi and should be fired. we know that the fbi director james comey testified that the president said to comey of flynn, he is a good guy, i hope you can let this go. do you think this is a case where obstruction of justice is looking stronger to you at all? i ve said before, i m not a
cnn is on the scene for the biggest rollback of federally protected land in u.s. history. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. breaking news tonight. new information on when president trump knew that michael flynn hadn t come clean to the fbi, information that could be crucial to the special counsel s investigation of possible obstruction of justice. cnn has learned that the white house chief lawyer told mr. trump back in january that he believed flynn had misled the bureau and should be fired as national security advisor. that was before the president s february meeting with then fbi direct james comey when comey said he was pressured to back off of his investigation of flynn. tonight, as more questions arise about mr. trump s legal risks,
the white house suggesting that they go easy and drop an investigation? could they be the things that cause problems for president trump even if we get to the end of the special counsel investigation and mueller determines there was no collusion with russia. we have the chief legal analyst jeffrey tube in and you have seen this excellent reporting about the white house chief lawyer that they told president trump he believed that michael flynn who was then the national security adviser lied to the fbi. this was before michael flynn was fired and the president told them to lay off michael flynn. what s your read? i know there are a lot of names and dates here. here you have an unusual situation. they go easy as i sit on an