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And he didnt say anything that would incriminate the president but the truth of the matter is none of us, everybody at this table and president trump, none of us has any idea. >> yeah. thats what theyre hoping. they could have learned a lot of things they would not have learned if they did not sit down with him for 30 hours, an incredibly long period of time for the white house counsel to sit down with him saying were not worried about what he said, sure that he was there as a good witness for t...

So, i failed. the cover-up would go on. nixon would, of course, fire my pro superiors and myself as he tried to accomplish the impossible which was to get through what hed done. >> mcgahn was not on the campaign and presumably mueller is seeking information not about russia but about potential obstruction of justice charges and he might be in a position to know a lot being the white house counsel. >> i think he is in a position. thats -- when i responded to trumps tweet, i said that he clearly d...

He was preeffortively invoking executive privilege for the firing of james comey. i wont talk about it and let mcgahn go freely? thats mind boggling. >> perry, last june 2017, yeah, 2017, when "the new york times" reported that mcgahn received an order to fire mueller and he suggested he would quit before that. >> particularly that moment, talking about obstruction of justice initially, this firing of comey has a lot to do potentially with what happened afterward and hes an important witness. we...

Several incidents mueller is examining including trumps attempt to fire the special counsel last summer. trump has often blurred the line on what mcgahns role is. believing at times that hes representing him when really hes representing the presidency. asked today if the meetings were a mistake, mcgahn staying silent. >> mr. mcgahn, was it a speak to have you speak without limits to special counsel muler? >> reporter: the presidents agitation growing as the legal team scrambles to figure out wha...

House counsel john dean in 1973 after initially participating in the watergate scandal, the cooperation of investigators ultimately helped to expose it. four decades later, the man that has the former dean job white house counsel don mcgahn cooperated and in a report he said he was determined to avoid the fate of john dean who pleaded guilty. and the watergate scandal. to this, president trump took to twitter denied that mcgahn was a john dean-type of rat. your reaction to president trump insist...

So this is -- this is pretty important testimony and its taken trump 48 hours almost to understand whats going on here. >> the president said he allowed mcgahn to speak with the mueller team and its true that the initial legal team let it happen but as somebody who knows how this type of thing works, does three days and 30-plus hours worth of conversation sound like a reason that the president maybe shouldnt be so nonchalant? >> i think thats a lot of testimony. thats a lot of visiting and thats...

Mcgahn can give context, timing, thoughts, writings, musings of donald trump. he could give corruptible intent, the only reason why the mueller wants to interview the president. mcgahn has the insight and the -- and as general counsel, he has those insights. thats powerful. im not sure anyone, donald trump or the lawyers, want him in there sharing that. >> amanda, if the president is nonchalant about this, he wouldnt have spent a few days on twitter attacking bob mueller, attacking the investiga...

Cohen. i and other reporters have done and whether to pardon him. >> some of the issues here is how much michael cohen is involved in paying off women with whom president trump has allegedly had an affair. >> right. >> not during his presidency. but during the time he was married to melania. >> payoff is campaign finance violation potentially. whens cohen know about k0 2016 russia? he knows potentially to me collusion. seems to me cohen and mcgahn hugely important people and the fact we learn th...

It could be incriminating to explain what was happening that didnt appear to be wrongdoing but when you put in it a larger picture it completes parts of a puzzle that the prosecutors couldnt get elsewhere. so, you know, i dont think we ought to pre-judge what he did or did not do until we know what that is. >> and a source said mcgahns attorney did not give trumps legal team a full account of what mcgahn did tell the special counsel and told the white house never asked. does that seem fishy that...

Mcmcgahn and the lawyer could not allow why the president was so willing to law him to speak freely to the special counsel and feared he was setting up mcgahn. thats stunning and undermines the idea its being done in partnership with president trump. >> well, as a former prosecutor from the southern district and a 28-year white collar criminal defense lawyer, it is beyond stunning. it is unbelievable. it is fundamentally just wrong. i could see the set-up ala dean of the nixon years but the real...