at how why they re doing this, these conservatives think tanks and groups, many of them have broken with donald trump and also criticized the kremlin. senator don mcgahn, mitt romney are on the board of the international republican institute. those are two men who have been very openly critical of the president. does that signal something or is it just impossible to know without going back to the source and figuring out exactly what do we summize from it? what s important to note, the russians aren t really strictly partisan in their campaigns. their overarching goal is to divide and conquer. is to foment confusion and doubt. and set one up against the other. and so they can do that by hacking into republicans and as well as hacking into democrats.
has a pretty good feeling about what don mcgahn would have said, but, do they know specifically what he said and what the q&a was like? yeah, i mean, that is a big question right now, fred. we know that don mcgahn spent an exes tensive amount of time with the special counsel and more than 30 hours over three different occasions around we know that don mcgahn has been around the president at these key moments of interest of the special counsel and the president and the white house are insistent that it is okay, and they are the oneses who gave him the right and the ability to go to have this conversation with the special counsel, and they also were the ones who told him it was okay to waive attorney/client privilege which allowed him to say whatever he knew about the interactions over the past year and half, but what is interesting about all of this is that it is not abundantly clear that the white house knows exactly what dan mcgahn told robert mueller.
to know what the president is thinking when he puts the tweets out there. and on one hand, he is admitting that i pulled don mcgahn to the tell the truth and the whole truth and if the president s story varies at all from don mcgahn s, that is a problem for him and talking about john dean and others with a parallel to nixon and why does he do that? it is inexplicable and he needs to get off of twitter right away and listen to lawyers and stop talking about the investigation, and going after robert mueller and jeff sessions and anybody else, and anybody working for the president has to think that this is a train wreck. and there is baron, and we have not seen him a long time, and the first family there, you know, getting off of marine one on the way now to air force one as they are still in new jersey and ending the weekend there.
support for mr. trump. donald trump jr. then responds if it is what you say, i love it, especially later in the summer. i want to bring in jamil jafr the former white house koun snell the george bush adm administration, and mr. neftali, thank you. and so, there is no negative inference from it, and what should the white house be worried about? he is speaking on a regular basis about what the president was doing or the vice president was doing. he waived the executive privilege and gave him time to talk and more conversations to be provided or advice and now that don mcgahn has gone and said everything that he knows,
this particular story is that when john dean cocan oper coope the investigators he was looking for immunity and on the way out. and presumably mr. mcgahn is not looking for immunity and planning to be the lawyer for the office of the president. he is a pro. he is a professional. that is his job. his job is to answer questions to defend the presidency. not necessarily to defend the president. and that is where the challenge is. because frankly, mr. trump, president trump is not accustomed to having people around him whose job it is to protect the institution and rather than the person. right, and jamil, so why would he have his own attorney present? well, phil burke is a very bright guy and been through other investigation, and he is providing the best advice he can for his client, and unlike the