Robert Mueller’s Unlikely Witness

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🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The New York Times has found that one of the White House’s own lawyers, Don McGahn, has cooperated extensively in the investigation led by the special counsel, Robert Mueller. And he has shared far more information than the president thought. Guest: Michael S. Schmidt, one of the reporters who broke the story. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarale.
0:02.4	This is The Daily.
0:09.2	Today, new Times reporting finds that one of the president's own lawyers, Don McGam,
0:15.8	has been cooperating extensively with the Mueller investigation
0:20.7	and sharing far more information than the president knew.
0:25.2	Why he did it?
0:32.3	It's Monday, August 20th.
0:39.7	Welcome to the Telecomprint Service.
0:42.3	Please enter your access code, followed by the pound sign.
0:45.3	The host has not yet arrived. Please stand by.
0:56.7	You are now being joined to your conference for a menu of...
1:01.2	Hey guys, it's my Schmidt.
1:03.8	Hey there.
1:04.6	Hey, who are you?
1:05.9	Good, good. Can you, uh, can you hear me?
1:08.8	I can't. So I should record on my phone.
1:12.0	Yeah.
1:16.4	So I've got the recorder right under my mouth here.
1:20.0	I mean, on the table, my elbows on the table.
1:23.6	Yeah, this is like the Maghiver of Daily episodes.
1:26.6	Okay, here we go.
1:27.3	Um, Mike Schmidt, how did you first start to get the idea that Don McGam,
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