understood the traditions and the rules of the american legal system and said you can t do that, and it didn t happen. mcghan fended off the president s repeated requests to have his rivals prosecuted. the times reports mcghan had white house lawyers write a memo warning the president about all the consequences including possible impeachment. mcghan left the white house after extensionive investigation in extensionive investigation by mueller. and he spoke repeatedly with rod rosenstein and matt whitaker, then chief of staff to jeff sessions. mr. trump asked them about justice department progress investigating hillary clinton. he d been clear he intended to go after her including this remark at a debate. if i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look
director james comey. the times says white house lawyers wrote a memo warning if he asked the doj to investigate political rivals he could face of your consequences, possible impeachment and allegations of abuse of power. a lot to talk about. and deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree. and don began who was white house counsel at the time, the president pressuring began to do something. and william a burke s attorney, mister mcgann pointed out the president never to his knowledge order anyone prosecuting hillary clinton or james comey. and wanted something to happen.
the times he says white house lawyers wrote a memo warning that if he asked the doj to investigate for political libel, he could face possible impeachment and allegations of abuse of power. all right, a lot to talk about tonight with tonight s legal eagles, fox news contributor, former u.s. attorney, andrew macarthur mccarthy, gentlemen, welcome to you both. good evening, shannon. shannon: there is so much to start with, let me start with the new york times. his attorney speaking out tonight about this conversation the president was pressuring him to do something. they say mr. mcgann will not comment on his legal advice to the president. that is from his attorney. he said mr. mccann will point out that the president never coming to his knowledge, ordered that anyone prosecute hillary clinton or james comey. this is something he talked about during a lot in this campaign, that he at least wanted something to happen. right, he talked about it
mcgahn, mcgahn rejected the proposal and wrote a memo warning that trump could face a range of consequences, including itch peachment. now mcgann is gone. whitaker s views on clinton have been clear to the media on several occasions. he wrote an op ed in 2016 titled i would indikt hillary clinton. for the latest joining me now is white house correspondent kelly o donnell. also with us intelligence and national security reporter ken delaney. kelly, this is interesting. the report is that the president asked his white house counsel and the white house counsel thought to memorialize it in a memo to say no, you can t ask for a prosecution. you can t even ask for an investigation of your political rivals in america. many a memo to document this for history for his own
fabric of the american health care system. also, once you give people a benefit, something they become accustomed to, the free, not having to pay the premium for your annual checkups, and they didn t want to run on obamacare. that has come to pass, all of that. it is a bit ironic, right? this thing is so embedded in the fabric of our health care system. republicans tried and find, a, they couldn t repeal it because they tried 70 times and b they don t want to. good example, social security and medicare, voters look at those who want to repeal it and say, why are you trying to hurt us? all the way back when we were debating clinton s health care program bill crystal wrote a long memo warning that once it was passed, voters wouldn t want to take it away.