security adviser has entered a plea deal with the special counsel s office. do you still believe that this investigation is wrapping up soon? we would refer you to the comments by ty cobb that he indicated as such as in the past few days. if robert mueller ends up looking into the president s finances or has already looked into the president s fninances, does the white house believe that s a red line and if so why? i think it s important to note, and hopefully you guys have seen this statement, that jay sec a low confirmed that the news reports of the special counsel had subpoenaed financial records related to the president are completely false. so subpoena has been issued. we have confirmed this with the bank. i think this is another example of the media going too far and
you were with us yesterday when this was all unfolding. something interesting came up while we were talking yesterday. that is that the president has been seething about this. he s really, really mad. when he gets really mad about something that happens in the mueller investigation we start to hear this talk about getting rid of robert mueller. jay sec la was on good morning america this morning. he s a lawyer and adviser to the president. the president has not indicated to me or anyone else that i work with that he has any intent on terminating robert mueller testimony way it would work is you can koenl terminate a special counsel for cause. we don t see any basis for cause. we heard from number of senators including lindsey graham who said they are not worried about this because in lindsey graham s words there would be holy hell to pay if the president tried to get rid of robert mueller without cause. what do you think? there would be holy hell to pay, and that word would be
much credibility if that s where he passed along to robert mueller. seems the first thing he communicated to robert mueller is clearly a lie. as he attacked the investigation has a witch hunt. he attacked it as a witch hunt. and attorney, especially jay sec u la, who has the attorney and mueller and a lot of attorneys who mueller hire ford this investigation. so a different tone into those overtures that were reported about today. you can sort of view them i think is right they seem innocuous on the surface. you go back to what he was cultivating when comey was fbi director. he made a lot of overtures, overtures that even comey felt were appropriate and the went too far. inviting him to dinner. making phone calls to him. asking about the status of the investigation. i think most people who know
appointment of a special council. the question now is whether that could be changing on the heels of this washington post report suggests the president may have helped draft that misleading statement about the reasons for the meeting between donald trump jr. and the russian lawyer during the campaign. of course, not clear what the president knew or when he knew it. the now, the word from the president s lawyers suggests nothing much has changed. this is from jay sec ca low. the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate and not pert nent. meanwhile, the white house is hoping for an end to some of the palace intrigue with the entry now as chief of staff of general john kelly. if anything is clear, based on his firing of the communications
this is on the obstruction piece of it. comey s memos are also on the question of what was russia doing and who responded. what did they say? they re going to want to go back and ask those people on how russia conducted its election interference as well. and, margaret, back to the president s defense. is there a feeling now within the white house, do we know, that the lawyers and it seems like it s dowd who is the new addition here, who is not the flamboyant not, not the one going out there doing press conferences and going as a guest on television shows, who may have gotten control of this. do they feel in the white house that dowd actually has control of the president now in this investigation? well, there has been a real firewalling or really attempt to firewall both the white house, you know, don mcgahn and the president s advisers from the legal size and at the same time this addition of jay sec ykulowd