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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180127:16:23:00

And from that build an obstruction case. since the president s reported push to fire mueller in june, he has repeatedly denied mueller s firing was ever a consideration. no, i m not. no. what else? i haven t given it any thought. i mean, i ve been reading about it from you people. you say i m going to dismiss him. no, i m not dismissing anybody. i want them to get on with the task, but i also want the senate and the house to come out with their findings. as the special counsel weighs whether all ooh this amounts to obstruction of justice, it could be the president s that first takes a hit. the president said repeatedly he was not intending to fire mueller. this sorry says not only was he intending to, but he attempted to. his credibility, i think, was greatly damaged by this. and since june when the president reportedly made that ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180127:12:31:00

Attorney put me up to it here? i think so. i think this is what i understand as very possible that he said you should consider it. mcgahn said it is a horrible idea. if you do it, i would resign. the president himself or those that speak for him said, no, i never considered firing mueller. it was because he was told by his attorney to do so. i do not know if he did or did not but i would say on the outside, it would be very reasonable for them to have this discussion. and how far he took it. he could say we had the discussion, but i never considered it. i bounced it off mcgahn and i asked him to talk to rosenstein about it. i think all of that is a reasonable conversation for somebody who has a prosecutor who has very obvious conflicts of interest. i think we could all agree that if you look at the team he put together, it was a partisan, ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180127:16:27:00

That s what mueller has to evaluate. and then, president trump boasts of backing law enforcement, yet this reporting of wanting to fire mueller, to trump s being very seething over, you know, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. it seems the president may be working hard to undermine top law enforcers, but at the same time praise them. can you have it both ways? well, i think the support for law enforcement is selective. clearly when he s, you know, conducting a law and order campaign and using that as part of what his agenda is, it can be very forceful, very strong. but we ve seen repeatedly since day one, when it comes to investigations about his own administration and into what he has done, he can be very aggressive attacking the investigators, attacking law enforcement institutions, and he does it privately and that s what this story is about. but he also does it publicly. and as with his attacks on the media, he s been very vociferous ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180127:16:21:00

President tried to do just that. cnn has learned president trump ordered white house counsel don mcgahn to fire mueller last june, but mcgahn balked and threatened to resign. in a statement, trump s attorney would ohm say we decline to comment out of respect for the office of the special counsel and its process. are trump has repeatedly disparaged the investigation. but trump attempt to go ousting the man is perhaps one more point in a pattern of behavior some say could be obstruction of justice. in addition to trying to fire mueller, the president asked former fbi director james comey for his loyalty in january. then in february, trump asked comey to drop any investigation into fired national security adviser michael flynn. he fired comey officially in may, saying it was because of the fbi director s handling of ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180127:13:06:00

Hearing this morning about the democrats plan to protect mueller s team? reporter: well, they have raised the question of thousand protect robert mueller once again and they are seeking to ensmur that te ensure that the ongoing budget negotiations include some type of legislation that would protect the special counsel from being able to be fired by the president alone. now, this isn t the first time that the democrats have raised this idea, they actually brought it up late fall last year when there was speculation that the president could be considering bob mueller. but to talk of the legislation, it died down because not only the president, but his aides and lawyers insisted that it wasn t on the table for him to even be considering firing bob mueller. something we now know is not true with the wake of the new york times report that the white house counsel actually threatened to quit after the president told him to fire mueller. senator warner has been a critic ....

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