robert mueller at any time. don mcgahn described what he imagined would happen if he followed donald trump's order to call rod rosenstein and fire robert mueller. quote. inflection point. with that i mean a point of no return. if the acting attorney general received what he thought was a direction from the counsel to the president to remove a special counsel, he would either have to remove the special counselor resign. we are still talking about the saturday night massacre decades and decades later, and looking back you always as a student of history wonder could things have gone differently if different people made different decisions, and here my thought was fast forwarding, you know, what this is going to look like down the road. this seems to be an inflection point. it was time to hit the brakes and not make a phone call to rod