with bob mueller and the president s office? a tension here. the president s team still does not want him to do the interview. new lawyers, giuliani at the head. the thing is, the president still wants to do it. he thinks he can go in, as you said earlier and explain himself. that is a real tension, because end of the day, if that s what he wants to do, then the lawyers ith veri either have to help him do that or quit. my sense, if he s insistent on that they will try and do something to arrange and interview. the problem is, this has gone on for a very, very long time. these are really protracted negotiations. if you re mueller at what point do you say this is a waste of time. why are we doing this? and carol lee, new reporting on christopher wray becoming the latest to draw the president s ire. what can you tell us? mika, we were doing reporting on the president and his mood lately in the past week or so.
to a few white house officials today, he knows mcgahn listened to john dowd and ty cobb who urged cooperation, he didn t want to cooperate, of course he did cooperate, sad for those 30 hours, he s someone who should have exerted executive privilege months ago. he ended up sitting with mueller, anyone connected to the mueller probe. you re at risk of getting the president s ire. robert costa, thanks for that report. senator richard blumenthal a member of the senate judiciary committee. one of the most notable things about mcgahn, there was reporting he stood in the way of the president firing mueller. trump ordered mueller fired but backed off when mcgahn threatened to quit, between that and sessions likely imminent dismissal, what do you think the white house is up to. first, mcgahn has been
mike pompeo, secretary of state a favor of regime change gave a blistering speech. you showed a part of it. the most open attempt to you have to go back to 1953. we did it secretly then. now that we do it in the open, i m worried about the actors who want to go to war. saudi arabia, united arab emirat emirates. unlike the situation in korea and northeast asia, these countries want to go to war with a foe. somebody who has the president s ire. that s troubling. this distraction could stick as a war that the president may not really want to engage in. you and i both know the president will campaign on this and go to rallies and say to people you saw what i did.
that, you know, even if he wanted to take a stand, he wouldn t, because in that clip, if he were to then intervene and do something like, say, john mccain did during the 2008 campaign where he defended then-candidate barack obama, you know, he would get the president s ire. and so we just haven t seen these types of lines blurred in this way, particularly for someone in his official capacity as attorney general. carol lee, always great to see you. and ned price, peter alexander, thank you so much. we re standing by at the white house. coming up, clapback. iran responding to president trump s twitter threat. stay with us. told people about geico. (harmonica interrupts) how they could save 15% or more by. (harmonica interrupts) .by just calling or going online to geico.com.
blistering speech. you showed a part of it. the most open attempt to you have to go back to 1953. we did it secretly then. now that we do it in the open, i m worried about the actors who want to go to war. saudi arabia, united arab emirates. unlike the situation in korea and northeast asia, these countries want to go to war with a foe. somebody who has the president s