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Don McGahn scolded Ty Cobb for discussing Russia investigation at DC steakhouse, where @nytimes overheard it.
Trump Lawyers Clash Over How Much to Cooperate With Russia Inquiry
WASHINGTON President Trumps legal team is wrestling with how much to cooperate with the special counsel looking into Russian election interference, an internal debate that led to an angry confrontation last week between two White House lawyers and that could shape the course of the investigation.
At the heart of the clash is an issue that has challenged multiple presidents during high-stakes Washington investigations: how to handle the demands of investigators without surrendering the institutional prerogatives of the office of the presidency. Similar conflicts during the Watergate and Monica S. Lewinsky scandals resulted in court rulings that limited a presidents right to confidentiality.
The debate in Mr. Trumps West Wing has pitted Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, against Ty Cobb, a lawyer brought in to manage the response to the investigation. Mr. Cobb has argued for turning over as many of the emails and documents requested by the special counsel as possible in hopes of quickly ending the investigation or at least its focus on Mr. Trump.
Mr. McGahn supports cooperation, but is worried about setting a precedent that would weaken the White House long after Mr. Trumps tenure is over. He is described as particularly concerned about whether the president will invoke executive or attorney-client privilege to limit how forthcoming Mr. McGahn could be if he himself is interviewed by the special counsel as requested.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/us/politics/trump-lawyers-white-house-russia-mcgahn-ty-cobb.html
WASHINGTON President Trumps legal team is wrestling with how much to cooperate with the special counsel looking into Russian election interference, an internal debate that led to an angry confrontation last week between two White House lawyers and that could shape the course of the investigation.
At the heart of the clash is an issue that has challenged multiple presidents during high-stakes Washington investigations: how to handle the demands of investigators without surrendering the institutional prerogatives of the office of the presidency. Similar conflicts during the Watergate and Monica S. Lewinsky scandals resulted in court rulings that limited a presidents right to confidentiality.
The debate in Mr. Trumps West Wing has pitted Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, against Ty Cobb, a lawyer brought in to manage the response to the investigation. Mr. Cobb has argued for turning over as many of the emails and documents requested by the special counsel as possible in hopes of quickly ending the investigation or at least its focus on Mr. Trump.
Mr. McGahn supports cooperation, but is worried about setting a precedent that would weaken the White House long after Mr. Trumps tenure is over. He is described as particularly concerned about whether the president will invoke executive or attorney-client privilege to limit how forthcoming Mr. McGahn could be if he himself is interviewed by the special counsel as requested.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/us/politics/trump-lawyers-white-house-russia-mcgahn-ty-cobb.html
Also,
Link to tweet
Memo to the White House staff: the New York Times is reporting that the guy next to you may be afraid you're wearing a wire for Mueller.
Maybe you should be.
Before he does.
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Boom! on a Sunday night. (Original Post)
MelissaB
Sep 2017
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TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)1. "McGhan had a couple of documents locked in a safe"
that Cobb wanted access to.
🤔
Edit:
And who's actually going to believe that McGahn wants to collaborate but "is worried about setting a precedent" that would weaken the WH after the Trump tenure?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)2. Fascinating! n/t
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)3. Don't they know better than to discuss this in a public setting?