needs are the recollections of the people who wrote the memo or were there for the conversation. right? the memo is corroborative. but what s really important are the people who spoke to the president, got his direction, understood what he intended to do and wrote that stuff down. that s the real evidence. and we know mcgahn, for instance, has been meeting with special counsel for many, many hours. that s what matters. frank, this is another instance of don mcgahn as one of the human guardrails around the president. does this article also kind of out mr. whitaker as a potential witness? you ve got the president coming to the chief of staff at the justice department under sessions saying in effect, hey, how are we doing on that investigation of hillary? yeah, there is no question now in my mind that at some point mr. whitaker s going to
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more bull-headed against robert mueller. how that will all play with robert mueller depends on how far trump decides to take this. they could kind of play good cop, try to cooperate and lay low. but if the president has it his way, it could be that he goes so far that it could backfire against him and that could be brought into more points against him as mueller investigates obstruction. jeremy, to be clear, this is a president who trusts his own instincts other anybody else. frankly, no matter who is representing him, he s going to go with number one thinks, that s always what s within his own head. that s what people around trump were most worried about. you talk to his closest advisors, one thing that they feared was that this exact situation would happen, although i think they were more worried about trump firing john dowd and some other members of his legal team. that didn t happen, of course. but the end result is the same in which you lack these human guardrails around trump