that was a jaw-dropping story. if they were fine with it they didn t read the story carefully. it made clear don mcgahn sees himself as the white house counselor lawyer protecting office of the presidency and not donald trump. he thought he was trying to set him up. he made the decision to cooperate with robert mueller. went in there three times, 30 hours of interviews, and the white house does not know what he said. the story suggested that he talked about those episodes where trump was pressuring him to fire mueller and he was resisting because he knew it was improper. that could be damaging. he s the only witness that can give mueller this sort of intimate details of those exchanges. could be very important. dan balls, were you surprised by this, the john dean comparison in particular. you ve seen this arc play out. that s a pretty striking historical comparison. it is. to have the white house counsel in a sense cooperating fully, even if blessed by the white house initially w