would be submitting to comey and saying you are stronger than me, i can t talk to you. that s what would be going on there. that would be it. with us we have white house reporter for the associated press jonathan la mere who read the james comey book. thank you. i went to a good school, i was able to read the book. donny deutsch is with us and in washington national political reporter for nbc news carol lee who has the big scoop this morning about the brewing obstruction of justice case robert mueller is building. monday morning s raid on president trump s personal attorney has white house allies on edge and up and upended the delicate negotiations with the mueller probe. last night the washington post reported that trump s allies worry that federal investigators may have seized recordings made made by michael cohen. quote, cohen who served for a decade as a lawyer at the trump organization and is a close confidant was known to store the conversations using digital files and
washington anchor for bbc news america, katty kay. white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemear. and carol lee who has the reporting about the obstruction of justice case robert mueller is building. and msnbc contributor, carol lenig who had the reporting that trump s allies worry that federal investigators may have seized recordings made by michael cohen. also with us, national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. we ll get to you this block! and former u.s. attorney, barbara mcquaid. good to have you all on board this morning. so jonathan, let s go to you. talk about the measures that are being swann. jonathan swan, let s talk about the measures that are being taken to by the trump team to discredit well, we ve been talking about mueller, but also comey.
and sam nunberg said this to the lead s jake tapper about the case that he thinks robert mueller is building. quote, they know something on him, nunberg said. and, jake, i don t know what it is. perhaps i m wrong, but he did something. he also said that candidate trump might have known about the trump tower meeting before the fact. he also said he knows that donald trump would not collude with russia. in fact, he was far from consistent on much except that he wants nothing to do with the special counsel. and there s more. there s reaction from one of the congressional committees. we ll have that breaking news in just a moment. but first the breaking news from cnn s jim acosta with late reaction the white house. how is the white house reacting to this slew of interviews that sam nunberg has been giving today and the news that he s refusing the subpoena? reporter: anderson, i think the reactions range from baffled to blowing him off. among the baffled, they were watching as we all were