philosophical collisions that probably didn t get enough attention other than folks who cover the legal side of this, don mcgahn was never for what phil and matt have described, he was never for this sort of accommodation of bob mueller s requests on document production and witness participation. don mcgahn wanted and needed an ally on executive privilege. my questions today that have gone unanswered is how do you put the toothpaste back in the tube. don mcgahn has spent two full days with mueller s investigators. if you were going to exert executive privilege, i don t know with whom you do it. as you heard from the clip you played from cnn, bob mueller already knows more about the trump campaign, and i would imagine based on the questions that the new york times published this week, knows more about the way the white house functions than anybody else who works there. yeah. matt, you re agreeing? yeah. 100%.
if there was a moment in time when the white house would say hey, take a long walk, bob mueller, we re not going to give up these documents, this is executive privilege material, that was a year ago. you know, you ve turned over a million documents plus to the special counsel and you made it a rule that everybody at the white house, every staff member has to cooperate with bob mueller and sit for an interview. once you done that, it becomes awfully difficult to say actually i have a new lawyer and a new strategy. i m not actually interested in providing you any information. well, great, super. thanks for letting us know. we ve got a million documents here already and we ve already interviewed everybody. so nicole is right. you can t put the toothpaste back in the tube. but the narrow question that came up today was after seeing i was also told by an attorney very deeply involved in the mueller investigation that the publication of the questions that mueller has on obstruction was
in the media i think that s our obligation. as a reporter i think you work hard to do that. i think the justice department certainly should be non-partisan. but the social media, comey put his neck out there. it s getting chopped off but suspect that what a citizen is supposed to do. i think the problem is we have a feedback loop that doesn t alu for nuance or gray area. that s for sure. that s the we know what the problem is, but nobody seems to have a solution for it. noah feldman didn t. it was my frustration with his column. and you and i started our career when we were gatekeepers, there was a common set of facts a common truth, a common sense of shame. that is all gone. i don t know how you put the toothpaste back in the tube. even comey in 2006, a different era, he was seen by all of us he was seen by the gatekeepers as somebody who was non-partisan and did the right thing with ashcroft. now no matter what he does he is
certainly the background checks, majority never changes. why? well, because you know, these last couple presidential elections they cost a billion dollars for a job to pay $400,000. it s so much money involved in this stuff that s crazy. but there s so much money coming from all these special-interest groups. politics are so corrupt now. i don t even know if you can put the toothpaste back in the tube, but the nra is so powerful. you got involved in the alabama senate race between doug jones and roy moore. why did you decide to go down and get involved? i was embarrassed for my state. you know, when i went down every news organization in the country was there. and why were they there? to see if we were stupid enough to vote for roy moore.
the service economy. girl: you want to buy postcard? for, uh, only $5. one, two, three, more, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. anthony: what i m amazed is how friendly and open people are with us. i mean, it s very easy for me to sit here and say whatever i want about the government. right? we can go home. you know. our lives will go on. we don t pay the price for that show. uh, everybody who helped us could very well pay that price. it should be pointed out that a lot of people did not. a lot of people were very nice to us but said, look, i just i ve already been in jail. you know? i don t i really don t want to go back. um, it s a very real concern. what happens to the people we leave behind? you know, one would think that you can t once freedom you know, they ve tasted freedom, you know? well, uh, uh, you know, you can put the toothpaste back in the tube. you know? uh, there s no doubt about that. but for the moment at least, things seem to be moving in the right