. >> president trump's focus on white house lawyer dan mcgahn is cooperating with robert mueller's russianddling investigation. the president tweeted mcgahn isn't a john dean type rat and has nothing to hide. dean was white house counsel for president nixon during watergate. >>> a controversial wedding guest this weekend. vladimir putin. the russian president flew to austria for the wedding of the country's foreign minister. karen nessel is an independent but was nominated by the pro-russia freedom party. critics say putin eeg's invite s into question austria's role in the conflict and sends a message over heightened tensions over russia's behavior on a variety of fronts. putin toasted the couple and led in a dance before leaving for a meeting in germfy. >>> we're going to turn it over to sports. we're brodie brazil with a preview of what's coming up next. >>> the oakland a's haven't had sole possession of first place in the american league west division this late in the season since 2014. plete the sweep of the astros to take over the division. we'll have highlights of that plus the giant

the president's legal team unsure of exactly what white house counsel dan mcgahn said during 30 hours of testimony. though he didn't believe he implicated donald trump. that's according to his attorney. sources say the president himself is rattled. plus sources confirming to krrpb that they're preparing charges against the long-time attorney, michael cohen. the southern district of new york is investigating cohen related to hush money payment to porpb star stormy daniels. and today a jury in virginia ended its third day of deliberations in the former campaign chairman. paul manafort served the campaign for five critical months. he's facing 18 separate counts of bank and tax fraud. he face as second trial next month on charges of lie thing to fbi, money laundering and foreign lobbying. a former federal judge and harvard law professor. also litman and white house counsel, jack quin. welcome to the program. a source is telling cnn that mcgahn didn't provide -- and they don't believe he implicated trump in any wrong doing with the special counsel's investigators. give me your assessment o

it comes as the new york times reports the white house counsel dan mcgahn is cooperating extensively with mueller's investigation. now the president is reacting to it all on twitter. i'm jon scott. this is the fox report. fox news has not independently confirmed some of the details in the new york times report but we have confirmed that mcgahn took part in three voluntary interviews with special counsel mueller. in its reporting, the times characterizes those meetings writing in part, quote, mr. mcgahn laid out how mr. trump tried to ensure control of the investigation,

that's what's happening here with dan mcgahn and some of these folks have been cplayer sn the probe. had they done anything, it would be notorious and taking away their clearance. that's not what motivates the president by all accounts. >> clearances are taken away from people, misuse classified information. the president contradicted the justification given yesterday from the white house podium that this had anything to do that. the president told the washington journal that this was about folks involved in the russia investigation which does not include questions of collusion but facts of the intelligence community that russia interfered in the election. >> with the president said he winked the two directly and to be clear most lawyers in washington say we spoke with you today and he have the right to take security clearances away. rudy giuliani told me this afternoon on a phone interview that no one has the right to tap secret info. and what rudy giuliani was saying the former officials and according to him and the president are using this to try to make money or contract. these a

he is also dan mcgahn's lawyer. >> isn't bill burke also recommending reince priebus in the russia investigation? >> exactly. >> that's the person? >> in effect sanitizing all these documents. without any explanation, any log or any record of the ones that he is withholding. >> we had a story here last night, a republican fund-raiser where devin nunes, and kathy mcmorris rodgers on the republican side, they were talking about the potential impeachment of rod rosenstein and the need to shut down the mueller investigation and they seemed to be talking about timing that in relation to the kavanaugh confirmation. the story was we believe news worth worthy. what do you think will happen in terms of the timing of the confirmation? republicans seem to be making it clear in different terms, in public and behind closed doors, they want to get this done very fast. definitely before the election. >> first, understand that very few of us are ever going on cast a more important vote. i will never cast a more important vote than this one on this nomination and it is one that will live with us for history. it

interesting about all of this is that it is not abundantly clear that the white house knows exactly what dan mcgahn told robert mueller. this is what rudy giuliani said when he was pressed on "meet the press." >> we have a good sense of what he testified to -- >> how do you say that good sense? have you debriefed him? >> no, but mr. dowd does, because he talked to them at the the time. >> and you don't know what mr. mcgahn, 100% of what he testified to mr. mueller? >> i think that through, through john dowd we have a good sense of it, and john dowd yesterday said, and i will use his words rather than mine that the mcgahn was a strong witness for the president, and i don't need to nknow much more about that. >> but what the white house has not really responded to was the assertion in "the new york times" report that when don mcgahn learned of the counsel for the president, his private attorney suggesting that he meet with the special kocounsel and that he was concerned that perhaps he was being setup, and this is a way for them to perhaps put him on the hook for any obstruction of justice charges th

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it comes as the new york times reports the white house counsel dan mcgahn is cooperating extensively with mueller's investigation. now the president is reacting to it all on twitter. i'm jon scott. this is the fox report. fox news has not independently confirmed some of the details in the new york times report but we have confirmed that mcgahn took part in three voluntary interviews with special counsel mueller. in its reporting, the times characterizes those meetings writing in part, quote, mr. mcgahn laid out how mr. trump tried to ensure control of the investigation, giving investigators a mix of information both potentially damaging and favorable to the president. mr. mcgahn cautioned investigators that he never saw mr. trump go beyond his legal authorities, though the limits of executive power are murky. let's go to ellison barber. she is in berkeley, heights, new jersey, here the president's golf club in bedminster. the president is weighing in on this. ellison? >> he is, jon. as he often does, he's weighing in on this on twitter. earlier this evening, he tweeted this, quote, i

it comes as the new york times reports the white house counsel dan mcgahn is cooperating extensivelyo it all on twitter. i'm jon scott. this is the fox report. fox news has not independently confirmed some of the details in the new york times report but we have confirmed that mcgahn took part in three voluntary interviews with special counsel mueller. in its reporting, the times characterizes those meetings writing in part, quote, mr. mcgahn laid out how mr. trump tried to

early in the day busy on calling mueller disgrace and discredited noting that it was he approved dan mcgahnagainst client sitting with mueller sarcastically saying this. >> you know, you give us the questions in advance, it's not under oath, you don't keep q&a which is report and by the way, write the report that i'm innocent before you question me. >> so far the president has closed door meetings, west virginia to campaign for the attorney general there at the rally we may hear yet more about this and other things, guys. steve: griff, thank you. brian: we go to close door and put your ear next to it. steve: can i come on in in call her the holy thrower, the nun is going viral for first pitch at the white sox game over the weekend, sister mary jo warming up outside, one of us is going into the dunk tank, next who would be? stay tune.look at that. before nexium 24hr mark could only imagine... a peaceful night sleep without frequent heartburn waking him up. now that dream is a reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without

. >> also, if you don't know who dan mcgahn is, he is a white house counsel and also a very early supportere top election attorneys in all of the country and kind of considered a rock star in the white house. he o orchestrated all of the federal judges that we're seeing elected. the implication is that he's turning on the president. some people, i watched janine last night as well, and she and others are suggesting that maybe this story was planted, leaked by the mueller investigation to sort of create this feeling, make the president nervous about having granted this access. >> the mainstream media takes the bait. they're so reactionary. as you pointed out, don mcgahn cannot talk to special counsel robert mueller unless he has permission of his client who is president donald j. trump, attorney/client privilege, executive privilege. rudy judiciar guliani weighed i. the president didn't do anything wrong. that's why don mcgahn was speaking to the special counsel. take a listen. >> the president encouraged all the people who testified to tell the truth, to take as long as they needed to to do

president tell "the new york times" mcgahn's lawyer only a limited accounting of what the white house counsel has told special counsel investigators. >>> joining me onset, dan is a -- savalis. let's talk about the revelation that don mcgahn has been cooperating with the mueller investigation, to the sense at least he has been interviewed by them. what does it tell us and how does it fit into trump's legal strategy? >> there's no revelation that don mcgahn is talking to special counsel mueller. he is white house counsel, not donald trump's personal lawyer. there is no way, and this is settled law, a case called lindsey back in the '90s that you cannot prevent the white house counsel from sitting down or being subpoenaed by a grand jury. you can't do it. so any legal team, including trump's legal team, would have known that in the course of mueller's investigation eventually he would have talked to don mcgahn about that list of things that you just pointed out. those are all critical pieces of the puzzle robert mueller needs to assemble, so don mcgahn was always going to talk to robert mueller, or at least it should have been anticipated. >> to be clear, he d

, quote, i am very excited about the person who will be taking the place of don mcgahn as white house counsel. i liked dan, but he was not responsible for me not firing bob mueller or jeff sessions. so much fake reporting and fake news. according to bloomberg asked whether he would comply with a subpoena from mueller to answer questions trump said in an interview i'll see what happens, i view it differently. i view it as an illegal investigation because great scholars have said that there never should have been a special counsel, the president said. the president also said jeff sessions' job was safe until at least the mid-term elections in november. quote, i just would love to have him do a great job, trump said thursday in an oval office interview. asked if he'd keep sessions beyond november he declined to comment. let's bring in our lead guests. sam stein, mimi roca, now a distinguished fellow in criminal justice at the pace university school of law. barbara mcquade is a former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. and matthew miller is the former chief spokesman for the justice departmen

mcgahn told mueller's team. i think they probably have a pretty good idea about it nonetheless, dan bongino was with us 45 minutese status of the probe today. >> this case has gone from embarrassing to really like an intergalactic disgrace at this point. i mean, when are we going to get to the collusion? guys, the entire country, the emergency break on the entire country has been pulled for the last year and a half because we have been told that donald trump's team, right, colluded with the russians to win an election. are we ever going to get to the actual collusion? there is no there there. there is no case. mueller is down to, what, yellow cab taxi fraud now with michael cohen? this is what we shut the country down for. this case is a joke and he knows it. >> by the way doesn't look like mueller is doing any of the questioning. one is a female clinton attorney who is doing almost all the aggressive questioning. if you are president trump, thinking that this is a fair and balanced inquiry, why wouldn't you be suspicious about everyone's objective? steve: well, when rudy was with us, he told us different members