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To be nixon. the president. today, it is clear that it is not the case. it is to a office of the president that he represents, and there can be real differences between the incumbent president and the office itself, and mcgahn represents the office. >> with a all of the news, do you think that mcgahn can continue to do his job effectively for the white house? >> i dont know any reason that he cant. his principle job is to work on fillinging that when they brought in tye cobb, he was placed on th...

Relations and media, seriously, because they are different discussions. the politics, you have talked about. legally speaking, the problem with the story, honestly, its accurate, but subject to misinterpretation especially those who arent well versed in federal criminal investigations. the point is, early on, under tye cobb and the early lawyers, they made a decision to be cooperative and not rely on attorney/client privileges, therefore, mcgahn went in and spoke. the problem is the insinuation ...

And the attorneys about the reach and the aggressiveness of the nature of the steps that the investigations are taking. >> and charlie savage, weigh in here, and i know that you have been following both of the investigations and know about tom barrack and help us to understand the role that he has played in the donald trump universe and what it might say about the trajectory? h >> well, he was involved in inaug ra ration committee and he would understand the donations coming in to help to fund t...

He didnt, because the white house counsel don mcgahn stayed in the way. the white house has given us a statement from special counsel tye cobb which reads in part that we do not find it to be a coincidence that there is an onslaught of false stories are circulating in what appears to be a coordinated effort to do distract and reflect about already new revelations that have been reported bias and corruption. we continue to cooperate with the special counsel and out of respect for that process, we...

It was actually written by his top personal attorney john dowd and dowd is trying to admit something tye cobb wrote on friday. is that customary? do we see them writing tweets often? >> no. the twitter is spread by the president himself. he gets up in the morning and tweets to his little hearts content including stuff, fake video from anti-muslim extremists. the things he tweets often come straight from him, come straight from his heart. we have been told these things are actually, you know, thi...

Right now. they are trying to make plans if they can go back to college in the spring semester. they need to know now they are going to be safe and secure in their future in this country. so, we are pushing very hard to get this done by the end of the year. yes, we are going to use leverage to negotiate that. >> let me ask you, finally, about the big issue of the weekend and the guilty plea from former national security adviser, michael flynn. first, on friday, we heard from the presidents attor...

Who works out of washington, d.c. and in our nations history or hes being less than candid with the american public. >> next up don jr. who has a date with the house intelligence committee happening on wednesday. joining us right now frank figlussy and kendall coffee, former federal prosecutor. kendall, lets start with this on the tweet that came out as weve been covering this hour here from president trump. now saying that one of the reasons as to why flynn was fired was because he lied to the ...

He interested in flynn. he didnt say to let the entire russia investigation to go but flynn specifically and he said he fired flynn because he lied to the vice president. so it raises more questions than answers and on the best of days and worst of days, instead of talking about tax reform were talking about russia and the twitter account distracting from the message he would like to be focusing on. >> betsy, one of the questions asked now is does this put the president in more legal jeopardy be...

Northern virginia is also very democratic. i dont think thats -- i do not believe thats a factor. >> okay. lets talk about white house special counsel, tye cobb responding to the grand jury report, saying that the white house favors anything that accelerates the conclusion of his work fairly and the white house is committed to fully cooperating with mr. mueller. the president, though, hes taking a more defiant tone. lets listen to what he told supporters in west virginia this week. >> the russia...

The new chief of staff, and kelly and mcmas the ter are natural allies, and so it is a number of factor s ths that led the statement. >> and tamron, "the new york times" has learned that special counsel robert mooueller has asd the white house to turn over documents related to the ousted robert flynn. and is there a sense that the white house would comply, and what does this suggest to how far the robert mueller team is digging into this investigation? >> tye cobb, the inside white house counsel...