and threatened to resign. is he fired? the president said since he never thought about firing mueller. if this is true that s a lie. secondly, even though he didn t act on it or wasn t allowed to act on it by don mcgahn, it could mean to investigators he does have the intention to obstruct justice. okay. all right, listen. am i wrong? that s a good theory on your point. i actually, yeah i think you re wrong. how so? in all due respect. how so, because i know the guy. i was there. you re saying this didn t happen? i was part of the campaign. i was on the executive committee for the transition team. i know don jr. i would vouch for him. he didn t order mueller fired and don mcgahn. i have said four times in the
was no collusion in the russian investigation. is that why he tried to fire the special counsel? not contemplating the firing. if he thought there was no collusion and sat down with the white house counsel and in a private conversation, the president in a privilege conversation with his attorney. i did go to harvard law school. i know a privilege conversation. i know he had interlopers in the white house last june that were leaking information on him that was very unfair. you re telling me your president is not allowed to have a confidential conversation with the whoit house counsel? so what. this is about the truth. if don mcgahn hadn t threatened to resign. this distraction about leaks and steve bannon. who cares about that? you know i m making sense. to the viewers. you re saying don t believe the reporting it was a leak by bannon. i m not saying that. i m accepting the reporting.
don t start humira if you have an infection. be there for you, and them. ask your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, remission is possible. breaking news tonight the new york times reporting president trump ordered speshlt counsel robert mueller to be fired. last june. and only backed down when white house counsel don mcgahn threatened to quit if he was forced to do so.
maggie haberman is phenomenal. i m not saying that. don t say i m not saying. what i am saying he didn t fire the guy. he may have had a conversation about firing the guy and made the decision not to fire the guy. the guy is in place. you can t say had e fired him. i didn t say he fired him. the reporting is he wanted to fire him. contemplating. he wasn t contemplating. he ordered mcgahn to make the move. mcgahn said i will resign if i have to do that. and then the president relented. and. you re twisting the story. that s the reporting. why is that coming out tonight? this is when they got it. it s irrelevant. when it comes out. point number one he didn t fire the person. point number two the president
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