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forward and testify. that agreement would involve continuing to protect this individual s identity from becoming public. it also hinges on the whistle-blower s attorneys getting the appropriate curt clearances from the director of national intelligence office in order to accompany the whistle-blower. that s something that cnn reported was a condition of the whistle-blower testifying earlier this week. now the steven miller senior aide to president trump on fox news today continued to argue that the whistle-blower is partisan and even said that the whistle-blower doesn t deserve that title. take a listen. i think it s unfortunate that the media continues to describe this individual as a whistle-blower. this individual most certainly does not deserve this. a partisan hit job doesn t make you a whistle-blower blower because you go through the whistle-blower protection act. reporter: house democrats are pushing for documents and testimony on all front related to this ukraine controvers
to senior administration. now we are getting insight into perhaps the reasons why. last night president trump on fox news strongly pushing back on the the washington post report he meets with a number of leaders and took no efforts to conceal notes from those putin meetings. take a listen. i m not keeping anything under raps. i couldn t care less. i met with every leader, just about. individuallily. i meet with modi. in japan, i meet with aby and all of them. anybody could have listened to that meeting. that meeting is open for grabs. reporter: this the washington post report came on the heels of a the new york times report about a counterintelligence probe that agents and fbi opened in the days after president trump fired james comey and comes as the white house is staffing up in the release of robert mueller s
wrong and the payments were made to protect his campaign. what s more, cohen suggests that mueller, he s got evidence to prove all of it. i have a great team to break all of this down. first, let s dig a little bit deeper into exactly what these two men have been saying because only one of them can be telling the truth and all of this misinformation is hurting all of us. i want to play parts of these two interviews, president trump on fox news, and michael cohen on abc so you at home can see how their two stories line up. i never directed him to do anything wrong. whatever he did, he did on his own. he s a lawyer. a lawyer who represents a client is supposed to do the right thing. that s why you pay them a lot of money, et cetera, et cetera. he is a lawyer. he represents a client. i never directed him to do anything incorrect or wrong. he s saying very clearly that he never directed you to do anything wrong. is that true? i don t think there s anybody
no we wasted enough time on this witch hunt and the answer is probably. we re finished. let s bring in white house correspondent boris sanchez and what else did the president say about the mueller probe? this was a wide ranging interview by president trump on fox news with chris wallace speaking specifically about the russia probe in detail. the president suggesting it is not likely he will sit down and testify in person with robert mueller. he suggested that he was interested in doing that, looked forward to it instead of saying he is going to hand in his written responses to questions from a special counsel within the next week. the president spoke openly about his acting attorney general, matt whitaker. they made statements suggesting that the investigation could be stifled from within the doj by limiting funding for the probe.