the missing texts. that was a bogus assertion. could it be true that but for white house counsel don mcgann, if the president of the united states had ordered the firing of the special counsel, he might have wound up exactly where nixon was? >> well, we would have had, i think it's likely we would have had an impeachment crisis last june. i'm sure you all recall that a number of leaders in the senate, republican leaders were sending signals to the president don't do this. don't fire the special counsel. this is what's really concerning. why does he want to fire mueller. that's the real issue. why does he want to fire him. in nixon's case, he wanted to fire the special presideosecuto his team stopped him from doing it in the summer of '73. they couldn't hold him back by october of '73 and he pulled the