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Counsel john mcgahn has cooperated. his attempts to fire mueller. cnn's ryan noble where he spent the weekend. how is the white house handling this "new york times" report. >> reporter: trying to make the indication they were fine with the lawyer. wanted a full transparent accounting. a new report out contradicting that claim. and that they don't definitively know what don mcgahn told the
And deeper and deeper into trump's inner circle and reaches people very close to him, how are those people going to react. are they going to prioritize defending the president or prioritize protecting themselves? that's the big question this story raises and should raise about other who is this investigation has reached. >> it also raises questions to what extent everybody in the white house understands the definition of john mcgahn's job. rudy giuliani seems confident he didn't implicate the president but mcgahn is the white house counsel. he works for the office of the presidency. he works f...
Without the president coming to her aide or giuliani coming to her aid. >> that's everyone who works in this administration. >> and choose to do it on a daily basis. no one is forcing them to do those jobs. we're hearing all this from giuliani. he says he couldn't be -- yet nothing from john mcgahn, nothing from emmitt flood, nothing from sekulow. is it that rudy's the new face guy and those guys are doing the work? >> i think this was, you know, concocted by the president and rudy giuliani sitting together and making a decision to go out and let him make this statement. i think it was a disas...
That's a huge problem for this administration. >> in response to a complaint from the fec, he issued a statement saying the money came out of his own pocket. he facilitated, he used the word facilitat facilitated, the payment. what does that say to you? >> coming out of your own pocket is not the issue here. it doesn't have to come from trump's own pocket to be a campaign violation. remember the payments made on behalf of john edwards was not out of his own pocket to have private jets for his mistress and a variety of things. it's about whether or not the funds were used on behalf of the campa...
Town and two of the president's top lawyers discussed at that lunch very sensitive strategy about the russia investigation, all at that sidewalk table at blt steak here in washington, just a few blocks from the white house. as you said it was overheard by a "new york times" reporter and the new york times is reporting that don mcgahn erupted at ty cobb for discussing the matter in public and saying chief of staff john kelly reprimanded cobb for the carelessness. what exactly did white house lawyers cobb and john dowd talk about? they aired their suspicion with the president's legal team and ta...