Fake news, folks. Fake news. What is your message . New york times, fake stories. Our jim acosta is in davos, where the president is. Look, jim, more than one of his cabinet members tried as hard as they could to keep this mueller issue at bay. Did they succeed . Reporter you know, poppy, youve been here before, you know how it is, the mixing and mingling that goes on with cabinet secretaries and titans of industry and so on. It is what makes davos fun and interesting to cover. We have cabinet secretaries walking by us all the time here throughout this morning before the president s speech and they simply did not want to talk about this Robert Mueller story the New York Times, that trump wanted to fire mueller last year and almost lost his White House Counsel Don Mcgahn as a result of that, threatening to resign over that potential action. We went to various cabinet secretaries here, Rex Tillerson, Steve Mnuchin and the cabinet secretary over at commerce, wilbur ross, and just to ask t
was made, a request by the president or the governor or whoever was made to legal advisers. the request was denied. and it never went outside the room. it is very highly likely those that have been asked about this were not made aware of it and didn t know. that s why there has been a lot of denials. i do think while this problematic and it raises the question of whether the president made this decision based on the political fallout or his respect for the rule of law, i think this is a lot of talk and now very well sourced story about a potential political fallout that never happens. so i think we need to keep that in mind. i understand where there is the legal questions, but in the end of the day, this didn t happen with regard to mueller being let go. mar mary catherine, intent i important as well. not just legally but politically. how do you see it? saying look it didn t happen, how do you see it? we are talking about a thing that did not happen. had it happened, it would have