times broke. that he tried to get the special counsel investigate being him fired and that his white house counsel threatened to quit which created the prospect of a saturday night massacre, and president trump backed off because counsel dan mcgahn threatened to resign. mueller learned about it in recent months as his investigators questioned about whether the president obstructed justice. in this new reporting tonight, the times says not only with mueller being told about the president s order to fire him, we know some of that. it also says something important. that mueller knew exactly what was happening inside the white house after this january story appeared. look at this. the president told an aide that the white house counsel, don