it becomes more complicated when he s exercising his power. he could fire the fbi director. but under the law he can do that, he can direct the justice department to do different things and he could have pushed them to get rid of mueller. those are the more complicated questions. the cleaner ones are where he would be going outside of his executive power to try and hurt the investigation. so let s talk here michael about what exactly don mcgann did. the president s report to fire robert mueller was not carried out when white house lawyer don mcgann refused to order the dismissal. according to the new york times report, mcgann disagreed with the president s case and told senior white house officials that firing mueller would have a catastrophic effect on trump s presidency. and mcgann told white house officials trump would not follow through on the dismissal on his own. and the president then backed off. mcgann was also concerned that firing the special counsel would incite more que