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Do i have an attorney general who is not going to do what i want him to do? >> it's quite possible. and yet jeff sessions is still there and is living his best life. living the dream, fulfilling every conservative priority he's ever dreamed of. and that's not a bad outcome for noel francisco if he wants it. >> one of the things mueller is looking into is whether president trump obstructed justice by firing the fbi director, former fbi director james comey. do you think -- could firing rosenstein, phil, bring about more questions of obstruction of justice? because that is what adam schiff is sa...

The principals, the dynamics, the backdrop and what ended up happening. >> what a scene. mr. mueller is someone who is known to be so careful with his words, as a meeting with the president's legal team. and they're having negotiations, tense negotiations about a potential presidential interview. and as the president's lawyers continue to balk at the suggestion and say they need to have more information, mr. mueller brings up the possibility of a subpoena. and that gets set -- the president's then lead lawyer snaps back, you're messing around with the president of the united states. and that l...

Appearing to lobby for a foreign country is something that is literally the least of the charges that manafort is facing, and it's something that happens all the time in washington, and people try to correct retroactively, and they get sort and it seems like a really big overreaction to that charge. >> yeah, it is, but it's probably the one place where he thought he could have some impact with the witnesses. if you look at the money launder charges, those are paper cases. those are transactions that the special counsel has evidence of there. is not much he can do to contradict that. one of the...

With a belief that that would hasten the end of the investigation, as opposed to putting up road blocks that would take more time. one of the things that our reporting collectively here has told us about ty cobb's point of view within the discussions at the legal circle is that he would have been avoice in favor of the president submitting to an interview with mueller and his team under certain conditions, with parameters drawn and agreements made in advance, but that he thought that would be a step that would be, again, bringing this to a conclusion and something that the president could do. ...

Can the special counsel force the president to answer questions? nbc's kelly o'donnell is at the white house. and pete williams, in our washington bureau. kelly, start with you, just on this breaking news from the "new york times." matt apuzzo and mike schmidt reporting that ty cobb is out and that flood is in. where are we on this, and what's the white house saying publicly right now? >> reporter: so tar, kasie, the white house is telling us that ty cobb has been talking about retiring over aeredof weeks, and is prepared to do that now. they are not disclosing at this point what role emmet fl...