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Interview, facilitate document production, and they are really in this different phase now. and he was a defense attorney without a lot of experience in defending the institution of the presidency, right? the new gentlemen that they have in here, emmet flood, much of his background is all about working in the white house counsel's office, working for dick cheney after cheney left office, dealing with the tricky issues about the institution of the white house. >> maggie haberman, two months ago is reporting that emmet flood is going to be required and the president went after her, saying it's r...

And we'll see the president and the grand jury. >> you talked to ty cobb today? >> yeah. >> what did he -- >> he said what he said to a lot of others on the record, he appreciates serving the president and had a lot of nice things to say about emmet flood, his replacement. this was not a guy who was a pro-trump person who went into the white house. i don't know if people know this, but ty cobb didn't vote for donald trump. and i think his view was that he was there to facilitate the interview, facilitate document production, and they are really in this different phase now. and he was a defense...

Philosophical collisions that probably didn't get enough attention other than folks who cover the legal side of this, don mcgahn was never for what phil and matt have described, he was never for this sort of accommodation of bob mueller's requests on document production and witness participation. don mcgahn wanted and needed an ally on executive privilege. my questions today that have gone unanswered is how do you put the toothpaste back in the tube. don mcgahn has spent two full days with mueller's investigators. if you were going to exert executive privilege, i don't know with whom you do it...

Way into the oval office to interview for an undisclosed job at the time. and that don mcgahn views him as his succession plan. if don mcgahn had his way, emmet flood will stay and don mcgahn will be gone in a matter of six to eight weeks. >> which firm again is a very rigorous way of doing it actually, to care enough about a hand-off to make it peaceful and orderly. >> and to find someone -- one of the big sort of legal philosophical collisions that probably didn't get enough attention, other than from folks like matt and people that covered the legal side of this, isn't that don mcgahn was n...

Described. he was never for this sort of accommodation of bob mueller's requests on document production, on witness participation. don mcgahn always wanted and needed and lacked an ally on a more aggressive posture on executive privilege. my questions today that have gone unanswered are how do you put the tooth paste back in the tube? because don mcgahn has spent at least two full days with mueller's investigators and so if you were going to exert executive privilege, i don't know with whom you do it. all of the president's advisors have already spent hours, if not days testifying. and as you ...