That sunning the New York Times account reveals that donald trump not only wanted to fire special counsel bob mueller, he called in the order. And it was white house would you know don mcgahns refusal that carried out the order that forced the president to back down. He also had the role of urging attorney general Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself in the russia probe. We want to be careful not to exaggerate or misrepresent goingmangoin mcgahns role in the trump orbuio orbit. Michael schmidt quoting the west wing confrontation marks the first time that mr. Trump is known to have tried to fired special counsel Robert Mueller. The Washington Post adding, quote, trumps ire at mueller rose to such a level that then white house strategist Steven Bannon and Reince Priebus grew incredibly concerned he was going to fire mueller and sought to enlist others to intervene with the president , according to a president ial adviser who requested anonymity. Both were worried about the possibility and