and for a man who promised us the best, he has certainly not delivered on that. we re in a bigger swamp than we ve ever been in. and mcgahn, despite all the problems and ron is correct, he should have done things differently in the very beginning and he s been at the center of a lot of the problems that mueller is now looking into. but he did at least stop firing by the president of mueller and he didn t succeed but tried to stop him from firing comey. so he has done some things. he shouldn t have approached sessions about not recuing because that was clearly legally and politically required. but he has stopped the firing of mueller. so the next person who is hired as white house counsel and i can t even imagine what lawyer will take that job given the circumstances will have to face that issue of whether or not to fire. and remember that the person who
special prosecutors, ron klane and a former senior aid to president obama. and mimi rocca, an msnbc contributor. jill, i want to go on this issue with the white house counsel. we re seeing that the president is getting rid of his white house counsel at a time when the white house counsel s office is already dramatically understaffed, especially when you consider they are now consciously wrapping up for an impeachment battle. how does this compare to the way president nixon was represented both in the white house counsel s office at the time of your investigation and with private attorneys? he had very good private attorneys, and he had a full staff in the white house counsel s office. he fired john dean after the investigation was well under way in the house. but before the watergate prosecutor was appointed. so he got fired in april, john
the most experienced lawyers in washington for handling a situation like this. he actually represented the democrats position in the house of representatives in the impeachment action against president clinton. he was in effect defending president clinton within the house of representatives. and of course jared kushner had no trouble going out and hiring the most professional, most competent lawyer available in washington. donald trump is now looking at abbie lowell wishing he had her. he is quoted in the washington post as saying, another leaker, another trump adviser said trump remark this year, i need a lawyer like abbie. ron, he certainly does. well, he does. i mean, he needs to stop hiring his lawyers out of the ranks of fox news commentators, which is not really a good source for quality legal remitatipresentat. the latest episode of white
fired special prosecutor cox ended up not being appointed to the supreme court or being not confirmed because in large part he had fired cox. and ron, in the president s tweet just parenthetically he refers to trying to get a supreme court justice confirmed as if that s not as important as firing his white house counsel. that s the important thing. and what does this do to the point man trying to run the confirmation process? this is a job you have had. yeah. in other administrations, democratic administrations. the point man gets publically humiliated by the president on twitter today. yet, he has to try to keep the supreme court confirmation process going. yeah. i don t know what it s like to be fired on twitter because that s never happened to me, but i doubt it is a big moral booster. i doubt this really sends john mcgahn back to work tomorrow for
and for a man who promised us the best, he has certainly not delivered on that. we re in a bigger swamp than we ve ever been in. and mcgahn, despite all the problems and ron is correct, he should have done things differently in the very beginning and he s been at the center of a lot of the problems that mueller is now looking into. but he did at least stop firing by the president of mueller and he didn t succeed but tried to stop him from firing comey. so he has done some things. he shouldn t have approached sessions about not recusing because that was clearly legally and politically required. but he has stopped the firing of mueller. so the next person who is hired as white house counsel and i can t even imagine what lawyer will take that job given the circumstances will have to face that issue of whether or not to fire. and remember that the person who