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Was on the side of more transparency. we know from mark carrallos count in "fire and fury," that hope hicks and the president prevailed, said it will never get out, just say it was about adoption. so the press staff, i have to say, having been a press staffer, you are in charge of some of the most insignificant things like which tie your boss wears, to some of most seismic things like, like, you know, personal and professional. so, you know, when you look at a white house under investigation by ...

Bit -- you know, there is a debate about this. is lying to the press a crime? and there is a theory that it is if what youre doing is really meant to mislead investigators in addition to the american public and "the new york times". and thats -- well see how that legal theory plays out if it does. but we know that mueller is very interested in this. hope hicks was asked to come in and talk to him, i think it was a couple weeks ago. >> she spent two full days with muellers investigators. >> we do...

On this. let me put out two other date appoint -- data points. this is a rare instance where white house aides made it known to people who cover the white house that there was dispute about what to do. i was told that there was a debate, that there were people that urged more transparency. and so in real-time, people made it known there was a debate about how to respond to joes inquiry. bob mueller sent over a list i think of six people and what they had in common. was that they were all -- afte...