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This morning, right up until two hours before you posted your story, where he never mentioned it, never came up, gave no indication he was on his way out. do you have any clearer sense if he jumped or if he was pushed? well, there s two things about this. one is that ty cobb is a veteran washington lawyer. he s been around for a long time and he is close to retirement. you know, he likes to spend time down in south carolina, and that all sort of fits. but what else was going on is that don mccann, the white house cown semi, really wanted him out and really spearheaded this effort. he thought cobb had given up way too much to the special counsel, in working with his lawyer, bill burke, who is actually good friends with emmet flood. they worked to recruit flood over the past year and increasingly in the past few months. mcgahn and burke convincing him to come in. mcgahn and flood see things the same way, the privilege issue should be exerted more and more should be kept away and there ....
Multiple white house officials and the president himself have said about how this went down. immediately after the department of justice notified the white house counsel of the situation, the white house counsel briefed the president n and a small group of senior advisers. the white house counsel determined that will is not a legal issue. when the president heard the information as presented, he thought that general flynn did not do anything wrong and the white house counsel s review corroborated that. the white house was notified that flynn was a at risk of compromised and blakckmail. why allow someone to stay on for 18 days because my white house cown semi, don mcgahn, came back to me, it did not sound like an emergency, didn t make it sound like he was, you know and she actually didn t make it sound that way, either, in the hearings the other way, like it had to be done immediately. ....
The public s part if the president is saying he s innocent, this is a witch hunt, there s no obstruction, there s no collusion, then why not go before the special prosecutor and say those things? so, they understand that, and they re weighing that, or balancing that, against the peril that any witness would face who is the subject of an investigation, going before the special cown semi. giuliani said he thinks the safest course and the course he would prefer is for the president not to testify. why does he think that? well, giuliani is a former u.s. attorney, a wlur has represented people in private practice. he said that he was pretty blunt about it, he said he always he never wanted his clients to testify, and as u.s. attorney, he felt that the witnesses who did testify, subjects of investigation, were walking into some peril, and he could exploit that and take advantage of that, as prosecutor. so, he comes at this from a very skeptical place, where i think ....