The Report Part XII: It Will Never Get Out
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🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It’s February 6, 2018. Don McGahn is back in the Oval Office with President Trump and the new White House chief of staff John Kelly. The New York Times has just published a story reporting that, back in June of 2017, Trump had directed McGahn to have Mueller fired and that McGahn had threatened to resign rather than carry out the order. The story doesn’t look good. Trump says: “You need to correct this. You’re the White House counsel.”
Trump wants McGahn to say it never happened. But McGahn knows that it did happen. The White House Counsel is sticking to his guns. He’s not going to lie. The president asks again. Is McGahn going to do a correction? McGahn feels Trump is testing his mettle, seeing how far he can be pushed. And so he answers: No. He’s not.
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| 0:00.0 | It's February 6, 2018. |
| 0:08.2 | Don McGann is back in the Oval Office with President Trump and the new White House Chief |
| 0:12.5 | of Staff, John Kelly. |
| 0:14.6 | The New York Times has just published a story, reporting that back in June of 2017, Trump |
| 0:20.6 | had directed McGann to have Robert Mueller fired, and that McGann had threatened to resign |
| 0:26.1 | rather than carry out the order. |
| 0:28.4 | The story doesn't look good. |
| 0:31.0 | Trump says you need to correct this, or the White House Council. |
| 0:36.1 | Trump wants McGann to say it never happened, but McGann knows it did happen. |
| 0:41.9 | The White House Council is sticking to his guns. |
| 0:45.2 | He's not going to lie. |
| 0:47.4 | The President asks again, is McGann going to do a correction? |
| 0:52.6 | McGann feels that Trump is testing his metal, seeing how far he can be pushed. |
| 0:58.0 | And so he answers, no, he's not. |
| 1:04.0 | This is the report. |
| 1:05.9 | Episode 12. |
| 1:07.3 | It will never get out. |
| 1:09.9 | In the last episode, we saw President Trump's anger at the appointment of special counsel |
| 1:14.4 | Robert Mueller. |
| 1:16.0 | He was furious at Jeff Sessions for recusing from the Russian inquiry. |
| 1:20.6 | He asked McGann to tell the deputy attorney general that Mueller had to go, and he enlisted |
| 1:26.6 | Corey Lewandowski to pressure Sessions to limit Mueller's inquiry. |
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