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Interview, facilitate document production, and they are really in this different phase now. and he was a defense attorney without a lot of experience in defending the institution of the presidency, right? the new gentlemen that they have in here, emmet flood, much of his background is all about working in the white house counsels office, working for dick cheney after cheney left office, dealing with the tricky issues about the institution of the white house. >> maggie haberman, two months ago is...

And well see the president and the grand jury. >> you talked to ty cobb today? >> yeah. >> what did he -- >> he said what he said to a lot of others on the record, he appreciates serving the president and had a lot of nice things to say about emmet flood, his replacement. this was not a guy who was a pro-trump person who went into the white house. i dont know if people know this, but ty cobb didnt vote for donald trump. and i think his view was that he was there to facilitate the interview, faci...

Philosophical collisions that probably didnt get enough attention other than folks who cover the legal side of this, don mcgahn was never for what phil and matt have described, he was never for this sort of accommodation of bob muellers requests on document production and witness participation. don mcgahn wanted and needed an ally on executive privilege. my questions today that have gone unanswered is how do you put the toothpaste back in the tube. don mcgahn has spent two full days with mueller...

Way into the oval office to interview for an undisclosed job at the time. and that don mcgahn views him as his succession plan. if don mcgahn had his way, emmet flood will stay and don mcgahn will be gone in a matter of six to eight weeks. >> which firm again is a very rigorous way of doing it actually, to care enough about a hand-off to make it peaceful and orderly. >> and to find someone -- one of the big sort of legal philosophical collisions that probably didnt get enough attention, other th...

Described. he was never for this sort of accommodation of bob muellers requests on document production, on witness participation. don mcgahn always wanted and needed and lacked an ally on a more aggressive posture on executive privilege. my questions today that have gone unanswered are how do you put the tooth paste back in the tube? because don mcgahn has spent at least two full days with muellers investigators and so if you were going to exert executive privilege, i dont know with whom you do ...

Waco, ruby ridge and plenty of investigations -- >> if arlen specter were still chairman they would have the documents because he wouldnt have them only to send them over to the white house and leak them to the media. >> it does seem the timing is clear, the president wants this to happen because the investigation is about him. and hes made it clear that he wants the investigation to end. so that is why people are questioning the timing or the motivations behind -- behind this tweet. >> but weve...

Sure all the interviews occurred for the special counsel. that was all done. the document production was done. he has told people that he wanted to stay on, if there was going to be an interview with the president, with the special counsel, because he wanted to be part of that interview prep, obviously. he has been the odd man out on all of this. hes been saying, oh, you know, the president, lets not rule out that the president should sit down with the special counsel. the team now says no, as w...

The issue would have been fully vetted inside the department and that tells me that mueller and rosenstein would have had this conversation in advance of this march meeting. >> frank. >> shes right on the money. bob mueller is someone i worked for. hes not going to throw the word subpoena into the table without having cleared it with rosenstein. this means the white house views rosenstein as a direct threat. this battle over documents and pending investigation documents, theyre try to tee up yet...

Transpatiencesy. the transparency hes talking about has to do with document production, they want to know more about the fisa court, they want to know more about how rosenstein has overseen the mueller probe here. but whats interesting to me is he talks about us finding a replacement. the house has no role in finding a replacement for a deputy attorney general, thats the senate and presidents business. but meadows is as close as anyone else in this building to donald trump. >> yeah. >> reporter:...

Started over. >> i think that its our understanding that cobb will remain on for several weeks and im not sure that this really changes much. the president has personal lawyers who are dealing with the interview question, wcobb had a an advocate of doing the interview. theres been an increasing interview whether after they got the questions that mueller wanted to ask or after the cohen raid that an interview is a bad idea. im not sure how much it will change on that front. cobb had been in charg...