It is august 31. Im ayman mohyeldin. Im back. Welcome back. President trump was in evansville, indiana. He stopped nearly the beginning of his speech over a minute and a half when a female protesters interrupted him. This moment was captured when a volunteer member of the president s advance team blocked the camera lens of a foept owe journalist attempting to photograph the protester. Nbc news reached out to the white house for information on what happened there. The president claimed the corrupt ruling class is standing in his way. He boasted of a mandate despite losing the popular vote by nearly three million. The democrats, they call themselves the resistance. Thats what theyre good at, resisting and obstructing. They are obstructionists. Every day they are resisting the will of the American People in trying to undermine the verdict of our democracy, delivered so strongly in 2016, like never before delivered. Within the republican party, the highest poll numbers well, they have 90, 92 and they have 93 . The highest poll numbers ever. Ever. I actually asked them, i said, did they do polling when honest abe lincoln was around . You know what . Nobody has been able to give me that answer, but im assuming they did, okay. So we can say were beating honest abe. Well, while speaking confidently in public, the president is privately discussing a legal storm that could threaten his hold on the office. Trump attorney Rudy Guilliani telling the Washington Post, quote, we have talked a lot about impeachment at different times. Its the only thing that hangs out there, claiming they cant criminally charged him. White House Counsel don mcgahn and other aides invoked the prospect of impeachment to persuade the president not to take action or behave in ways they believe would hurt him. Still, trump has not directed his lawyers or aides to prepare an action plan, leaving allies to believe the president does not appreciate the magnitude of what could be down. The office of white House Counsel is down to 25 lawyers down from 35 earlier. They have discussed adding abby lou el to his legal time. Lou el represents jared kushner. A day after announcing white House Counsel don mcgahn would be leaving in the fall, President Trump fired off a series of tweets yesterday morning about mcgahns departure. He wrote, quote, the rigged russia witch hunt did not come into play, even a little bit, with respect to my decision on don mcgahn. He went on to tease, i am very excited about the person who l be taking the place of don mcgahn as white House Counsel. I liked don, but he was not responsible for me not firing bob mueller or Jeff Sessions. So much fake news. A white house official tells nbc news it refers to the president s decision to accept the terms of the white House Counsels planned departure this fall. The official confirms mcgahn was not ousted and is actually leaving by choice. Meanwhile, cnbc has learned that the president s legal team is hoping emmet flood will not replace don mcgahn as head of the white house office. Various reports pegged flood as a replacement, but a person close to the legal team says trumps lawyers believe flood should remain in the position he has as one of the legal attorneys countering the special Counsel Robert Mueller and his probe. Trumps lawyers reportedly see flood as a critical piece in their strategy to fight an attempt by mueller issuing a subpoena for the president to appear before the grand jury. Mccains casket arrived at joint base andrews outside of washington, d. C. Yesterday, ahead of the ceremony and public visitation at the capital today. The crowd gathered on the tarmac last night as a group of Armed Forces Members carried his casket to an awaiting hearse. Mccains widow cindy was greeted by secretary of defense mattis. Earlier in the day mccain was remembered as an American Hero as 3500 mourners gathered to honor him. Speakers included grant woods, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald and former Vice President joe biden. Biden recalled his friendship with mccain despite the two being in opposite Political Parties and made what some saw as veiled reference to President Trump while speaking about mccains character. Still, he spent most of the time remembering a man he considered a member of his own family. My name is joe biden. Im a democrat. And i love john mccain. The way i look at it, the way i thought about it was that i always thought of john as a brother. We had a lot of family fights. Out of this grew a great friendship that transcended whatever political differences we had or later developed because above all, above all we understood the same thing, all p politics is personal. It is all about trust, and you trusted john with my life and i would and i think he would trust me with his. It wasnt about politics with john. He could disagree on substance, but it was the underlying values that animated everything john did, everything he was. You could come to a different conclusion, but where he would part company with you is if you lacked the basic values of decency, respect. Knowing that this project is bigger than yourself. Even though john is no longer with us, he left us pretty clear instructions. Quote, believe always in the promise and greatness of america because nothing is inevitable here. Close to the last thing john said took the whole nation as he knew he was about to depart, thats what he wanted america to understand. Following todays proceedings at the capital, services are set to be held at the Washington National cathedral tomorrow before mccain is laid to rest on sunday. Another close friend of senator mccain is speak evening out about President Trump and the contentious relationship the two men had. Speaking yesterday Lindsey Graham did not hold back about how President Trumps negative remarks about his friend angered him. It bothers me greatly when the president says things about john mccain, it upsets me to no end and i let the president know it. The way he handled the passing of john was disturbing. Johning us is daniel lippman. We are about six weeks out of the election. People are saying this is possibly the weekend deadline bob mueller would have to file charges if there are any more coming down the pipeline. As the Mueller Investigation continues to inch closer to midterm elections could we see President Trump step up his attacks against the fbi and the Justice Department . I think the pattern we have seen in this presidency is every week or two he ratchets up the attack goes. As he worries that mueller is potential closing in on him, then hes going to lash out, and he feels like a lot of his key people have turned on him. You know, in an interview he said allen weisselberg, the cfo of the trump organization, who is cooperating on a limited basis is a great guy. Thats his term for trying to keep someone in the fold before they cooperate more. You know, im curious though about what the president expects in terms of coverage about don mcgahns departure. Hes the guy that put it out there on twitter before even speaking to him, right . Yeah. What do you expect with regard to what the president is doing. Is there a strategy, daniel . Do we know exactly what the president is doing, why he is pushing back, what is coming next to the pike with regard to replacing the white House Counsel . I dont think that theres a, you know, 20page white house communication strategy that trump is listening to. I think a lot of communication staffers at the white house, they dont even know what the strategy is. It is trump being trump. Corey lewandowski, thats the title of his book. He was able to get into the white house doing all of this tweeting, and so hes going to continue to do that. In regards to don mcgahn, he felt like it was a betrayal that mcgahns talked for 30 hours to the white House Counsel and he doesnt want to hire someone new who is going to do that again. Yeah, and the white house very keen on making sure that mcgahns departure is not reported or seen or perceived as an ouster but that it was mcgahns own decision. But he also said it was his decision, trump said that. Exactly. Mcgahn hasnt come out and said it was his decision. Hes been leaking for a while he was thinking about leaving. It is just well see how it plays out. We will see how it plays out. Daniel lippman, stick around. We will talk to you in a little bit. Thank you. At least seven people died and dozens are injured when a Greyhound Bus collided with a semi. The semi truck blue out a tire, crossed the median into oncoming traffic. The bus was traveling from albuquerque to phoenix and carrying nearly 50 people when it happened. Emergency crews were seen desperately trying to reach victims among the wreckage. It was chaos. I mean, you know, the officers did a great job of sifting through the wreckage and the rubble, you know, to people the people that were survivors out of the bus as well as maintain order with the traffic. So they did a really great job. The first few officers that showed up on scene really had their hands full. The driver of the semi trailer suffered nonlife threatening injuries there and the ntsb is sending a team to investigate. The debris there, it is amazing anybody was able to survive that. It is frightening. 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