Goingmangoin Mcgahn News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

That sunning the "new york times" account reveals that donald trump not only wanted to fire special counsel bob mueller, he called in the order. and it was white house would you know don mcgahn's refusal that carried out the order that forced the president to back down. he also had the role of urging attorney general jeff sessions not to recuse himself in the russia probe. we want to be careful not to exaggerate or misrepresent goingmangoin mcgahn's role in the trump orbuio orbit. michael schmidt quoting "the west wing confrontation marks the first time that mr. trump is known to have tried to...

To be his fbi director, i'm guessing, it was something that had been thought through. but talk about what was really a dramatic scene that you paint in the piece, which was don mcgahn threatening to quit. >> mcgahn basically put his job on the line. he realized this would be catastrophic to the president. a month earlier they had gone forward with the comey firing, it completely back fired on them, it led to mueller being appointed. the president was increasinincr becoming convinced he was under investigation for obstruction of justice, it want just the russia issue, it was also his time in of...

Bunch of very senior white house aides increasingly concerned about potential legal exposure. i wonder if you can speak to the dynamics and the reception that your story had today. >> well, there's a lot of tension amongst the lawyers at the white house. don mcgahn and ty cobb are not always on the same page. they don't see issues like executive privilege and disclosure to mueller the same way. mcgahn more in favor of protecting those powers for future presidents, mcgahn representing the office of the presidency, where cobb takes the perspective that the president has nothing to hide and the s...

Times" reporter michael schmidt who along with maggie haberman who broke that story last night. michael schmidt, let me start with you and this account, which puts a lot of pieces on the board, if you will, in understanding who the narrators are. what stands out for me is this wasn't the musing that i think a lot of us have heard about of a desire to fire sessions because he recused himself, a desire to be rid of mueller. this was a direct order. how did it not come to be? what did mcgahn put on the line to stop the president? >> well, the president told mcgahn to call the justice department t...

Sessions his attorney general if he knew he was going to recuse himself from the investigation. the president was trying to move mueller off the investigation, to fire him, and mcgahn sort of called his bluff in a sense by threatening to resign, making that known to the president and eventually the president backing down. >> i'm not going to ask you how you know this out of respect for sources and methods, but what sort of phase does this suggest bob mueller is in if these are the sorts of pieces -- your reporting includes the fact that bob mueller knows, which you've reported that it was don ...