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Joining us now are associated press white house reporter and msnbc political analyst, jonathan mere, and john weissman. i remember covering the first impeachment of donald trump the white house ignored the house subpoena for mcgahn s testimony and they were thinking it will end up in the courts and take a couple years to resolve and here we are a couple years later, and what potentially does don mcgahn now have to tell house democrats? you are right, jeff. you and i covered that impeachment closely and the white house strategy was to just say no to not cooperate with any of the requests from the house and impeachment lawyers to try and stonewall that effort, and the white house counsel don mcgahn is somebody who we know ....
Respect to the former president. one of the things that was revealed in the documents that was revealed late last night is that attorney general barr had no business at all opining on this because he was really opining on a hypothetical future situation, which means he was really doing it for political reasons which may be second nature to all of you, but for somebody who has been in the department for over 20 years it s really shocking to see that kind of decision being made by the attorney general when it really was not before him. picking up on andrew s point, jonathan, that the way attorney general merrick garland has handled this is fairly instructive of how the biden administration sees how to handle the disputes from the trump days. precisely. trump felt like he could get him ....
In positions when it was called off by the president. the white house and pentagon have declined to comment and the times says no government officials asked the paper to withhold the article. the u.s. strikes would have been on a handful of specific iranian targets, including radar and missile batteries. those officials also tell the times. jonathan mere, what can you tell us about your reporting from the white house? yesterday, we saw the president address reporters against the prime minister of canada did what happened, about the strike that took down the american drone. and he seemed to be telegraphing repeatedly that he thought this was a mistake. at first, the interpretation was iran shouldn t have done this. but it was clear that he was trying to send a signal that he believed this was shot down in error, that it was not authorized by tehran, that this was some sort of general who made a mistake, loose and stupid is the phrase he used. we know the president has been reluctant f ....