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Story. and by the process, no one understands the process, everyone knows donald trump is not listening to subpoenas, telling mcgahn do not testify. hoping that mueller -- making it really difficult for mueller to do it as well. so that looks like we are losing. >> yes. mi mike, you write the story with your colleagues this afternoon, any reaction from chairman nadler or anyone else on the committee? >> i hadnt heard anything by the time we walked on the air today. look, im not sure what there i...

Questions that make you put a human shape on the story, that will be emotional, give a sense of gravity, authenticity, even people that read the report, it will illuminate it, dramatize it, democrats are right to want to get witnesses up to talk about this stuff. but i think its the case that an impeachment hearing would put a pressure, to move into this, to do it, if they believe in it, it puts pressure on the witnesses, theres nothing in the report that says they cant testify voluntarily, ther...

Thought amounted to high crimes and misdemeanors. a lot of that holds -- would seem to be incidents that don mcghan whos cited 157 times in that second volume could testify to. could you just remind our viewers how central don mcghans testimony and interviews with robert mueller and his investigators are to that second volume? >> hes essentially the narrator of that part of the report. and he is someone who mueller says he trusts, who he believes is telling the truth. and who, in detail time and...

Look, mcgahn, as we know from our reporting a few weeks ago, the white house wanted mcgahn to put out a statement in which he says i dont believe the president tried to, you know, obstruct justice. my guess is mcgahn would have probably said that, because he would have had to quit as white house counsel if he thought the president was breaking the law despite his advice. my guess is he would be a mixed bag, hed say things both sides would take and use for their advantage. i dont think hes a john...

Checking trump point by point. this comes as the white house leans on its pals at the justice department to offer a legal alibi of sorts for former white house counsel don mcghan not to testify. the white house announcing in the last hour that mcgahn has been directed to defy a congressional subpoena and skip a house judiciary hearing tomorrow. the move will set up a lengthy court battle and potential contempt proceeding for mcgahn. its another aggressive step by the trump administration in thei...

>> and david jolly, who i have to say, i saw an echo of what youve been saying in congressman amashs tweets. and karine jean-pierre is here. all, of course, lucky for us msnbc contributors. mike schmidt lets start with you. your story popped up an hour ago. you reported that mcgahn was going to get this legal opinion from olc at doj, the opinion in the white house saying our guy isnt showing up. is he really their guy and is he really not showing up? >> hes really not showing up. putting the leg...