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Another top trump official is on his way out of the white house. counsel don mcgahn will leave the administration this fall. president trump confirmed the news himself in a tweet this morning saying he'll leave after brett kavanaugh is hopefully, as he says, confirmed to the supreme court. white house correspondent abby phillip joins me now. what is the significance of losing mcgahn? >> hi, dana. we knew that john mcgahn was probably leave thefg administration this fall. what makes this moment different is that we have just learned that don mcgahn had cooperated extensively with the mueller pr...

So with this new reporting over the past couple of days that the current white house counsel has spoken for 30 hours with special counsel robert mueller, the president now is literally launching a new attack on john dean saying that dean was a rat for testifying against nixon back in the day. but the current white house counsel john mcgahn is in here of dean's legacy. he says he's determined to not have john dean's fate. he was prohibited from practicing law. that is what compelled him to cooperate with robert mueller. that's become the blueprint for this dynamic we have been watching unfold. ...

Scapegoat. once he figured that out, he made 180 degree turn. he went straight to federal prosecutors. he told them he would cooperate with them fully. by the time nixon fired john dean from the white house counsel's job, dean had already for weeks been helping prosecutors on watergate. so with this new reporting over the past couple of days that the current white house counsel has spoken for 30 hours with special counsel robert mueller, the president now is literally launching a new attack on john dean saying that dean was a rat for testifying against nixon back in the day. but the current wh...

Mccarthy was someone who was engaged in improper accusations. so i don't see the comparison at all. >> i found that attack by the president as totally bizarre. counsel was a guy named roy cohen who the president said was his favor lawyer. and if the mccarthy commission was so reprehensible why would you hire the reprehensible lawyer to represent you. i don't know how the president would answer that question. >> my head is spinning. good to have you both with us. thank you so much. let's talk political fallout.

President might have said with the conversation with comey. and i think they are very, very worried about this. you have to remember that he is counsel to the white house. so he is not personal counsel to the president. his interest is representing the white house as a governmental entity whereas giuliani represents the president personally. >> and mcgahn himself has a lawyer. where he said he thought it was insane that the president didn't try to fight his interview. mcgahn talked to investigators about his comments and actions during james comey's firing. and about trump's attempts to fire m...