president trump. the president approved the interview, but the president did not know the interviews stretched for 30 hours nor his own legal team did not debrief mcgahn afterwards. as to why the president let mcgahn to talk investigators? the trump legal team did not have a strong legal case to stop it and they thought it fit with strategy of cooperating with the probe. the white house still could seek to prevent details in mcgahn's testimony by coming out by exerting executive privilege. the president in full attack mode on monday with tweets. d disgraced robert mueller and his team of thugs. they are a national disgrace. >> not deterred by the twitter attacks, melania trump. she addressed an anti-cyber bullying summit monday.