saying don mcgann was a strong witness for the president. joining me now is democratic representative from tennessee, steve cohen. sir, i appreciate your time today and i'd like to ask your reaction to this reporting and the response to it. >> don mcgann is trying to save himself, because trump would throw him to the fishes if he could, and i believe it will cause more paranoia in the white house than there even is now, and the man will be just off his rocker, because he won't know whether to trust mcgann or not. he doesn't trust people he should trust, so just more of the chaos and mental instability that we're seeing at 1600 pennsylvania. i would have to think his golf game is terrible. >> okay. let's turn now, i want to talk about what's happening on the other end of pennsylvania avenue. the democratic house leader nancy pelosi. there's been talk that she might be under threat from her own party right now. "the new york times" is writing ms. pelosi is facing unrest of older lawmakers critical of her style, younger democrats demanding gene

mcgann, we know he testified for some 30 hours, if the president was concerned with what don mcgann said, it will create some potential problems letting it go. >> that may be. this marchlg between mcgann and trump was not going to last much longer anyway. it has been an open secret they're not happy with each other. i think the president needled him yesterday by announcing his i did partur departure. he was going anyway around the midterms or the first of the year and he will be much more at a free agent. >> okay, the official death toll for hurricane maria jumped more than 45 times the number after a year -- a year after the hurricane hit. so what about the thousands of deaths not originally reported? liberty mutual saved us almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey! oh, that's my robe. is it? when you switch to liberty mutual, you could save $782 on auto and home insurance. and still get great coverage for you and your family. call for a free quote today. you could save $782. liberty mutua

he says, i allowed the white house counsel, don mcgann, and other members to fully cooperate. no collusion, no obstruction, witch hunt. to some, the times story suggests that the mueller probe is about to concentrate into a huge construct on the crescendo of indictments and others think it's about to fizzle out. >> it looks like the investigation is actually winding down. if there is not even a hint that the president or campaign of anything to collusion. >> john brennan takes a different deal. yesterday he said that on the very night that canada trump called for russia to find missing emails, russian intelligence agents went about doing just that. he also cautions we should all wait for the mullah report to come out before coming to any conclusions. >> doug mckelway, thank you so much. fox news' chief political anchor now, bret baier. let's start with where we are with mcgann, what do we know about him and how does he figure into this, how did he get into the hot seat? >> the president allowed him to be interviewed as you just heard. we don't know obviously what he told muell

there's reporting that don mcgann the current white house council has been meeting and talking with robert mueller's team. there's also the president's former campaign chairman, still waiting for a verdict in his tax evasion and bank fraud trial. and dozens more weighing in against the president and john brennan's security clearance. his anger at least on twitter appears to be growing. bob mueller and his whole group of democrat thugs spent over 30 hours with the white house council, only for my approval for purposes of transparency. he then went on talking about mueller. anyone needing that much time is just someone looking for trouble. they are enjoying ruining people's lives and refuse to look at the real corruption on the democrat's side. the lies, the firings, the deleted e-mails and so much more. mueller's angry dems are a national disgrace. the president railed against bruce orr's security clearance he's threatening to yank, and also john brennan. studied the late joseph mccarthy, we are now in period with -- mccarthy was a demagogue who routinely twisted the truth. his former attor

let's talk about don mcgann. after the president blindsided him, announcing it on twitter before he had a chance to quit into what is interesting is we then heard from mcconnell and senator chuck grassly. he said that his departure from the white house, when ever that may be, would be a big loss for the trump administration and the country. senator mcconnell was starting out hypothetically. this was not from the media, this was from the president's twitter account. he doesn't know or trust that is true. >> we'll we have seen a lot of back and forths, right? different policies and things announced and then it is dialled back. and it is unclear what is going to happen, and right now it is up in the air. it will all look very different in november, i think what the leader is referring to is that mcgann's flauns has been on the central core conservative republican objecti iiveobjectiv. getting judges through the process. and mcgann has said he wants deregulation to be in his plans. and he says he is nervous that peop

they let's don mcgann talk for 30 hours. even if he did say something incriminating, the president exceeded his authority here, he gave mueller epstein extensive factual context to go with all the other details they had come all the other documentation to provide a narrative story of how these choices were made and that could be relevant in the instructions. shannon: that could help the argument against forcing him to testify because don mcgann has been with him, giving every scenario he could provide. isn't it good the president's legal team is saying you could get information where you have it and have no reason to talk to the president. >> the other piece is the president is realizing what about what don mcgann said? what happens if what i say that out with what jim comey says? that might be moving the president to the side of taking the advice of lawyers and be consistent, it would be a train wreck for the president. jillian: people are saying the legal team at the time, they have been taught -- the folks were defending

the president announcing don mcgann's upcoming departure tweeting, white house counsel don mcgann will be leaving his position in the fall shortly after that the confirmation hopefully of judge brett kavanaugh to the united states supreme court. i have worked with him for a long time and truly appreciate his service. chuck grassley responded on twitter saying, i hope it's not true that mcgann is leaving the white house counsel, i can't let that happen. he gave hours of interviews and what the white house said was an effort to be transparent. meantime after months of negotiations, president trump's legal team has no agreement in place on an interview. legal scholar alan dershowitz is subpoenaing the president. >> we are getting ready for what could be a difficult legal battle. the tactic of the trump team is to make the mueller team and offer they can't accept, so that in the end there will be no sit down and the trump team can say, look. we made them an offer, it's their fault that they didn't accept it. i suspect that mueller is onto this tactic and is now looking forward to filing so

he appeared to fire don mcgann today. he's going after the other witnesses to intimidate them as being rats, and here's the last one, courts. what's going on right now, anthony kennedy was reportedly coaxed out of retirement by donald trump, so trump can put someone on the court who at least according to everything we know about him, shares an extreme view of executive power with donald trump that could potentially, if some things go to the court, put trump in a position where he could go to great lengths to subvert the rule of law. >> there's a question, what you see now, what are the guardrails on this president right now. >> i think congress is not the guardrail and it's not functioning. there's a lot of discussion as to whether a sitting president can be indicted. the constitution has to be construed that there is accountability. congress isn't going to do something that it would have to be in my mind indictment. we can be in a free fall to the point where, where is there a tipping point where republicans are going to

as don mcgann's lawyer acknowledged. he thinks there was nothing incriminating, he doesn't know all of the evidence in the case, and he doesn't know how it all fits together. what he's saying when he acknowledges that, he doesn't know what incriminating necessarily is. >> nancy, i want to bring you in, and ask you -- president trump says mcgann testified with his approval. his legal strategy is to be transparent. how might that meld with president trump's legal strategy? >> well, just rolling back for a moment on the question of whether or not mcgann incriminated the president, what's been stunning, the president seems not to understand that mcgann is not his personal lawyer. you think about the kind ofs of things that may have been said to mcgann under the misapprehension that he was his personal lawyer. that was number one. it was taking place under the rubric when they didn't think obstruction of justice could possibly be a crime. that was their view then and view now. i take harry's point, it's almost like mcgann can

mcgann who also we should point out was rumored to leave it was this was percolating in the news back in june because of some pushback he was receiving from the president with regard to the president's desire to fire the special counsel robert muller began suggesting that was not a good idea oh it's only when stories will listen that can be think you can't help it so white house correspondent. moving on millions of children around the world are beginning a new school year but the united nations refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. is worried about the growing number of refugees who won't get anywhere near a classroom and they say the problems getting a lot worse last year four million refugee children didn't go to school half a million more than in twenty sixteen compared to ninety two percent globally only sixty one percent of refugee children attending primary school and as they get older it doesn't get any better two out of three children in primary never make it to secondary school schools in lebanon cater for hundreds of thousands of refugees but some teachers are now having to work overtim

don mcgann reportedly decided to cooperate with mueller out of fear that mr. trump was setting him up to take the fall for obstruction. "the times" even reports mcgann called mr. trump king kong behind his back. joining me now, jeff bennett, chief white house correspondent. how unusual is it mcgann is cooperating with mueller investigators? >> for a lawyer to share so much with investigators scrutinizing his client is unusual, but white house counsel don mcgann views his role as protecting the office of the presidency, not specifically the president, so that makes him different from rudy giuliani, the president's outside attorney, so mcgann has an entirely different motivation, but "the new york times" reports mcgann's cooperation began partly as a result of the decision of the result of the president's team of outside lawyers to fully cooperate with the mueller team. the president's lawyers at the time said they believe president trump, their client, had nothing to hide and that they could bring the investigation to a quick end by collaborating with the speci

don mcgann and we thought there was gob discussion between mcgann and the mueller team. it is the extent that surprised most watchers. you've seen the numbers here, nine months, three interviews according to the reporting. 30 hours as well. the question now is how much exposure here does this administration face to the investigation based on what we learned from that article? the 30 hours does sound like a lot of time. the truth is the truth. but the truth is hard. and when investigators are trying to get at the truth, it's a painstaking difficult process. the mueller investigation is characterized by a carefulness and a detail orientation that is sometimes is boring and it seems to take a long time. but that's how you get the truth. >> it's the consistency of the truth or the lack there of, is it not? if you're a prosecutor? >> absolutely. and what you're looking for are different sources of information to be able to compare them, different witnesses. that's why when the mayor says well you have one person say one thing and you have another person say another thing and

ivanka trump and jared kushner had nothing to do with the so-called pushing out of don mcgann. soon after he seemed to indicate maybe he was pushed out, tweeting "the russia which i did not come into play even a little bit with respect to my decision on don mcgann." whether it was the president's decision or mcgann's decision to part the white house, it was talked about again today. >> had the president resisted one more shot at reports earlier this year, don mcgann talked him out of firing special counsel robert mueller and attorney's obsessions. he tweeted, "i like him but he was not responsible for me not firing bob mueller or jeff sessions. so much fake reporting and fake news." as he president was putting a quota on his departure, talk with swelling at the white house that president trump is preparing to hit china with more tariffs as early as next week. multiple search searches telling fox news it is not yet a done deal, some $200 billion tariffs in china. after the public comment. period and a tweet yesterday the president scolded china for putting tremendous pressure on

the president and his attorneys knew full well that don mcgann was going to cooperate with special prosecutor robert mueller in his investigation. in fact the whole idea for cooperation was hatched by the president's attorney at the time. initially, mcgann had been very reluctant to cooperate with mueller. his job as he thought was to protect the presidency and cooperating with mueller may set president for a future white houses. but doubt in cobb's thought that access to white house personnel including mcgann would avoid subpoenas from mueller and bring us books which are conclusion to the special counsel investigation. listen to what rudy giuliani said about that yesterday. >> they allowed 32 witnesses to testify and turned over 1.4 million documents. and in fact, i would think john dowd would tell you with an agreement with bob mueller that it would be concluded quickly. if i had known the outcome, that mueller had not concluded quickly and it was amended attempt in good faith to try to work at the resolution, i might have chosen a different strategy and i'm pretty sure he would have. >> t

it's pretty simple. >> reporter: president trump went on a twitter attack after reports don mcgann is cooperating with special counsel robert mueller's russia election meddling investigation. dean, the white house counsel for president nixon during watergate. mueller and his investigations, he said, have nothing on the president. >> this whole mcgann thing leaked from them. if they had some kind of evidence that there was collusion or there was obctio don't you think it would have been leaked? they leak everything else. >> reporter: giuliani believes mcgann is a strong witness for the president, despite not knowing everything mcgann said to mueller, but the presida he n and others to testify, since he has nothing to hide. jennifer johnson, nbc news, washington. >>> breaking overnight, a u.s. military helicopter conducting a joint counterterrorism mission has crashed in iraq, leaving one coalition service member dead and multiple others injured. no specifics yet on their nationalities or where the chopper went down. the military says there is no indication the crash was caused by hosti

we're not suggesting that don mcgann may have information about that, but the white house counsel has been there throughout the turbulent period in the white house where there have been allegations that potentially donald trump may have obstructed justice. for example, in the firing of the fbi directorjames comey, also in pressure being put on the department ofjustice officials. pressure being put on the department of justice officials. so pressure being put on the department ofjustice officials. so this new york times story is suggesting that he has given evidence about that, of course we don't know exactly what has been said. however, there has been an angry tweet by donald trump in which he said that the new york times story is a fake piece. now, in saying that, he has also confirmed that mcg han has saying that, he has also confirmed that mcghan has given extensive testimony, but he has also said that any suggestion that this happened behind his back is untrue, he says that don mcghan has not turned on him, that he gave full permission for him to go—ahead and give this informati

mcgann has cooperated, mcgann and lawyer feared that mr. trump was setting up mr. mcgann to take the blame for any possible illegal acts of obstruction according to people close to him, so he and his lawyer mr. burke divides own strategy to do much as possible to cooperate with mr. mueller to demonstrate that mr. mcgann did nothing wrong, the time says richard, that mcgann may have turned on the president, what did you make of the article. >> at first i didn't know what to believe when i read the article. yesterday on another network rudy giuliani answered the questions, well, didn't answer them, and further to say that he wasn't sure what mcgahn said in 30-hour conversation with mueller team. if they were working together and president trump had sent mcgahn down to talk to mueller he would know what mueller said and the fact that the trump team doesn't know has raised eye bow for me, mind you, none of us know what is happening in mueller investigation, we haven't heard a word from him in almost 12 months, he's been focused on getting to th

it's don mcgann, this comes after mcgann met with the special counsel. . >>> a white house attorney will be leaving his job with the trump administration. >> you may not know his name, but don mcgann will leave an important job. the white house council will leave his post this fall. after the news broke that mcgann cooperated with the special counsel. sits down for 30 hours of interview. this comes with speculation over the future of jeff sessions. the president has taken jabs at the senator over his decision to recuse himself from the russia investigation. the president only shows sessions because of his loyalty during the campaign. >> here's what i know, trump doesn't like him and this relationship has soured. >> sessions has fired back saying the justice department won't be influenced by political interferns. >> as for today's announcement the departure is set to happen after the confirmation hearing of bret kavanaugh. that vote is coming up later this fall. that's a process overseen by mr. mccann -- mcgann himself. >>> the latest mission to mars passes the halfway point. >>> staggeri

mcgann, trade negotiations with canada, and puerto rico's continuing efforts. this came at the end of the event where the president was announcing a drug theory -- drug-free community grant. president: john mcgann is a really good guy, has been with me for a very long time. he is been hero must two years. i have a lot of affection for john. he will be moving on to probably the private sector and he will do very well. he is done an excellent job. you concerned about what he said to mueller about you? president: never. reporter: you are aware of what he said? president trump: we do everything straight, we do everything by the book. john is an excellent guide. reporter: the trade talks, how are they going? goingent trump: they're well. candidate was here until late in the evening, they wanted to meet us. they want to be a part of it. the deal we made was a fantastic deal. the u.s.-mexico trade agreement, we will see whether or not canada gets in to it. reporter: are you optimistic ? president trump: i think so, it will be good for canada if they made the deal. ver

president trump says counsel don mcgann will depart this fall, what it means for the president's ability to fight the mueller probe. david: we got u.s. gdp growth numbers and heard from the canadian foreign minister on the progress of talks with the united states about trade. joining us is the economic editor of businessweek. to what extent will the outcome of these talks they're having now with a deadline tomorrow with canada, could they affect gdp growth? >> they certainly can. the net export is a positive contribution to gdp in the second quarter. people think that is noise in the data but in general strong exports are good for gdp. if we have good trade agreement between the three countries, that would be good. david: we have the outlines of a mexico agreement and let's assume canada along the same lines, pro-trade or not? such as therriers requirements for $16 labor to be used for building cars. this ispoint, on net positive for trade if a deal is done. the alternative is having no deal in which case you go back to higher trade barriers in general. free agreement between these three

we heard a couple of weeks ago how don mcgann had been cooperating with the russian probe. don mcgann was party to a number of actions the president has taken, including getting rid of jim comey and potentially trying to weigh in on some of the fbi investigations into his former national security adviser michael flynn. it was expected at some point don mcgahn would leave the white house, we just did not know how quickly it would happen. one of the other reasons this would be important as if the democrats take over the house of representatives after the november elections, you can expect to see a number of subpoenas, investigative actions by subpoenas chairing various investigative committees and it will be up to the new white house general counsel to respond to a lot of those inquiries and questions coming from democrats. whoever takes that role -- if democrats take the house -- is going to have a lot of work on their hands. taylor: another big story is nafta getting mexico and canada to come to an agreement. i want to know how big of a deal it was for canada that the u.s.

even with don mcgann in the room, i said as he and official government employee? no. we don't think so. bill burke is the final filter of documents from the archives to congress and the american people. he is deciding. this private lawyer is deciding what's the american people will see when it comes to brett kavanaugh record. that is unacceptable. i have been on the committee for a number of years. we've had a number before us. the standard for disclosure established by senator jeff sessions, the ranking republican at the time and the standard that was agreed to by patrick leahy is being trampled on and ignored by the republicans when it comes to their own nominee brett kavanaugh. what is in these documents that the republicans do not want to share with the american people? what did mr. cavanaugh say, do, or right ring that time that we ought to know before he becomes the swing vote on the united states supreme court for more than a generation. the second issue i raised goes back to an earlier time when heap became -- when he came to the committee under oath. i asked

the new york times reports that mcgann gave information that may be incriminating to ent don president donald tru the article a fake piece. the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani praised mcgann saying he would have never remained with the trump administration if legal activities --illegal activities were going on. >> we are confident that he said nothing wrong of the president. we are confident because the man is a man of integrity. he would have resigned. >> president donald trump also said he wants what he is calling this rigged and disgusting witchhunt to come to a close. >>> the jury will return tomorrow to begin a third day of deliberations in the financial fraud trial against paul manafort. the former trump campaign chairman is facing 18 counts including tax and bank fraud and failure to disclose foreign bank accounts. gary penny has our report. >> reporter: it is back to work tomorrow for the jury in paul manafort's trial. this will be day three of jury deliberations as they review all the evidence from the trial including testimony from 27 witnesses and hundreds of exh

sources tell fox news that white house counsel don mcgann spoke with mohler on at least three occasions on the recommendation that president trump's attorneys at john dowd and ty cobb. they felt full cooperation with mueller would avoid subpoenas at the white house staff and bring a swift end to the investigation. >> they allowed 32 witnesses, and they turned over 1.4 million documents. i guess if they had known the outcome, that mueller would not conclude quickly on this really wasn't an attempt in good faith and work out some resolution to this, i might have chosen a different strategy. >> while they don't know all the details, but the president's current and former legal team believe he said nothing damaging. at john dowd who spoke with the attorney william burke is telling fox news, don mcgann is a very strong witness for the president. former federal prosecutor andy mccarthy said the lengthy conversation he had with white house counsel may make the prospect of interviewing the president even more remote. >> he needs to get past the hurdle that he has a need to speak to the presiden

it's a puzzling story in the new york times that it turns out that don mcgann, the presidents council has done 30 hours of interviews with the special counsel robert mueller with the consent of president trump. according to the story, mcgann was so surprised that president trump said go talk. that he and his lawyer were read, was the president trying to set, take the fall for president trump. what do you make of this? >> it was an astonishing story. that last piece goes to potentially a culture of paranoia inside the white house. for people looking at the headline or the lead, saying oh my gosh, this must be terrible for president trump. there are few concrete details that i think actually are not totally vindicating but at least interesting. for example, according to the story mcgann told investigators that quote, he never saw president trump go beyond his legal authorities. and also the notion that the president said yes. go speak with no restrictions. that does not sound to me like a president who believes he has deep secrets to hide or that he's done something wrong. if at least h

shouting] don mcgann is a really good guy. he has been your promos two years. a lot of affection for don. he will be moving on to the private sector, maybe the private sector, and he will do very well. he has done a job. -- he has done an excellent job. i knew he was going, i had to approve it. i do not have to be aware, we knew everything straight -- we do everything by the book. don is a guy. --we are doing really well wants to meet with us. trader jim it, we will see what bernard kennedy gets into an otherwise, we will do something separately. think canada very much wants to make a deal and i think it is going to be obviously very good for canada if they do and not good at all if they do not. we have a very good relationship. they came yesterday to the white house and we negotiated late into the evening. they are in the white house right now, we are negotiating with them and they want to be a part of the deal. we gave until friday and i think we are on track. we will see what happens but things are working out. a lot of trade deals are working out well. the

>> not at all. >> mitch mcconnell set don mcgann is the most impressive white house counsel during my time in washington and i've known them all. he said mcgann's departure will be a big loss for the white house. senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley suggested it could be a real problem, tweeting to the president, i hope it's not true that he's leaving white house counsel. no official announcement has been made and sources tell fox news the leading candidate to replace again is emmet flood who has been serving the president as it is his in-house counsel on russia investigation. flood is an old washington hand, having once worked for george w bush, president bill clinton and the former vice president, dick cheney. >> president trump calls him a failed socialist amir. andrew gillam shocked florida voters by winning the democratic gubernatorial primary last nigh night. setting up a confrontation with the president's hand picked favorite, ron desantis. that is the big story coming out of the tuesday primaries. this says arizonans pay their respect. tells us about the rates, set up to r

mcgann had been interviewed by mueller's team for 30 hours. >> the president said he did nothing wrong. we don't think they have any evidence that he did. write your report, put it out, and will write ours. let's move on to the election. >> giuliani said it is not might interfere with the midterm elections. >>> a federal judge in sacramento ordered and isis terrorist to remain in jail think he is a flight risk and danger to the community. the 45-year-old was arrested in an fbi raid in a sacramento apartment where he lives with his wife and child. he is wanted for killing a police officer in iraq back in 2014. court documents describe him as a terrorist. federal officials say he lied about his past to gain refugee status and be allowed into the u.s. iraqi authorities want him to be extradited to face charges in iraq. >>> we are seeing video footage of the deadly bridge collapse last week in italy. authorities released closed- circuit television images of the moment this bridge gave way. the video wasd from two different angles. in the video, you get the rain falling heavily with huge ch

president donald trump pass announced that the white house counsel don mcgann will be leaving in the autumn observers are linking his departure to special counsel robert miller's investigation into the alleged collusion between the trump campaign and russia are our white house correspondent kimberly how kids has more when they get on the boat when he was appointed as white house counsel donald trump called lawyer don mcgann a brilliant legal mind but now he's leaving the white house adding to speculation that another member of trump's inner circle is turning against him the u.s. president made the announcement on twitter i have worked with don for a long time and truly appreciate his service. but it's been rumored that mcgann had been threatening to leave for weeks after getting pushed back for advising trump not to fire special counsel robert muller who's heading up the probe into possible collusion and russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election so made up the word trump is reportedly furious mcgann has cooperated with muller giving thirty hours of testimony to the spe

. >> reporter: president trump wentn a twitter attack after learning that don mcgann is cooperating with the instigation. mcgahn isn't a john dean type rat. dean, the white house counsel for president nixon during watergate. mr. trump'sye current l says mueller and the investigatesors have nothing on the president. >> this whole mcgahn thing leaked from them f they had some kind ofvidence that there was collusion or there was obstruction, don't you think it would hav been leaked? i mean they leak everything else. >> reporter: giuliani believes he is a strong witness for the president despite zpoonot knowi what mcgahn said to mueller. 'loud others to testify since he has nothing to hide. according to the "new york times," mcgahn has spoke to the investigators at lst three times about 30 hours worth of voluntary interviews. on capitol hill, jennifer johnson, news 4. t >>orrow there could be a verdict in the paul manafort trial. president trrp's for campaign chairman faces 18 counts in virginia including tax fraud, bank fraud, and failure to disclose foreign bank accounts. the case went to

the article revealed white house counsel don mcgann has been interviewed several times by robert mueller's special counsel . the team is investigating russian interference in the 2016 election. the new york times reports that mcgann gave information that may be incriminating to president trump. the president called the article, quote, a safe piece. rudy giuliani praised mcgann, saying he never would have remained with the trump administration if illegal activities were going on. back we are confident that he said nothing wrong about the president. we are confident because the man is a man of integrity and he would have resigned if something like that happened. >> president trump also sa he wants what he is calling this rigged and disgusting witchhunt to come to a close. >>> john bolton, president trump national security advisor, is in israel and will be meeting with the israeli prime minister. said bolton's visit -- visit is especially important and they will talk about several tops -- topics including the reconstruction process and what that looks like in syria. also the rising tensions w

the article revealed white house counsel don mcgann has been interviewed several times by robert mueller special counsel. the team is investigating russian interference with the 2016 election. the new york times reports he gave information that may be incriminating to president donald trump. president donald trump then called the article a fake piece. the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani praised mccann saying he would never have remained with the trump administration if illegal activities were going on. >> we are confident that he said nothing wrong of the president. we are confident because the man is a man of integrity. he would have resigned. >> president donald trump also said he wants what he is calling this rigged and disgusting witchhunt to come to a close. >>> john brennan is speaking out about having his security clearance revoked by president donald trump. he may be the first of several current and former government officials who may have their clearances rescinded by the president. jennifer griffin has our report. >> reporter: former cia director john brennan took a

mcgann will be leaving his position in the fall shortly after the confirmation hopefully of judge brett kavanaugh to the united states supreme court. mcgann played a key role in shaping the president's conservative judiciary picks including supreme court justice neil gorsuch and now nominee brett kavanaugh. sources close to mcgann tell cbs news that he was surprised by that tweet. there is speculation the president is upset with mcgann's 30-hour interview with robert mueller. he was involved in discussions that could be key if mueller's team looks to build an obstruction of justice case against the president. >> 3d printed guns a the the center of a legal battle. now an alarming discovery. a man on probation caught with one inside his home. why police couldn't arrest him. >> and who would shoot an eagle? bay area vets are racing to nurse it back to health. >> eat a free avocado everyday and get paid for it. the details on this unique offer that's all in the name of science. it's time for the 'biggest sale of the year' on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses your movement and au

the president we did today -- white house counsel don mcgann will be leaving his position in the fall, shortly after the confirmation. judge brett cavanaugh to the united states supreme court. i have worked with don for a long time and truly appreciate his service. although he is planning to leave, sources told cbs news that he was surprised by the tweet. he has been key in helping the president nominate conservative judges to the bench. he made recent headlines for cooperating extensively with the special councils russia probe, reportedly giving over 30 hours of testimony. >> he is a really good guy. he has been with me for a long time. privately before me you represented me. he has been here for almost 2 years. and a lot of affection for don. he will be moving on probably to the private sector maybe the private sector? he will do very well. but, he has done an excellent job. >> mitch mcconnell released a statement on twitter calling the announcement sad news for our country. >> students in san mateo are remembering a classmate killed in a car crash. students at sarah high wrote trib

mcgann the white house counsel it looks like he will be leaving in the fall when he was appointed in two thousand and sixteen by donald trump after having worked with him very closely donald trump said that he considered him to be a brilliant legal mind but we did start to hear that he was threatening to leave the white house back in june apparently a bit of a difference of opinion with the president over whether or not the president should fire the special counsel robert muller something that tom again has been urging him not to do so that is certainly notable and then of course in recent weeks he dumb again made headlines because kamau he gave some very interesting interviews to the special counsel robert muller three of them in fact we are told that in total it amounted to about thirty hours of testimony donald trump tweeting at the time when these reports became public that in fact he had nothing to hide and he even advised allowed i believe the word he used allowed the special counsel to consent to those interviews and participate in those interviews but certainly it is curious

mcgann is cooperating with robert mueller's russian meddling investigation. he tweeted he isn't a john dean type rat. dean was the white house counsel for president nixon during watergate. >>> the developments in washington, will come up next on "nightly news." tune in after this newscast at 5:30. >>> happening tonight a different vigil in memory of a woman found dead hours after her release from almeida county's santa rita jail. jessica st. louis was released last month around 1:30 a.m., more than 30 miles from her home with nothing but a b.a.r.t. ticket. she couldn't use it until the trains started running in the morning. she was found dead of an overdose. state senator nancy skinner is leading a no candlelight call f people are released from jails. that vigil starts at 9:00 p.m. at the santa rita jail in dublin. >>> a fund-raiser is taking place tomorrow to help the family of a fallen chp officer. dutch brothers coffee is donating $1 from every drink sold to benefit the grist family. officer kurt grist was killed on i-80 in fairfield earlier month. he was

donald trump for his part pushed back on those reports saying in fact that he had quote allowed don mcgann to testify and in fact that he has nothing to hide and kimberly who might replace him. well this is also very interesting and i'll tell you why we have these congressional elections coming up in november very important because they could determine which party controls the house of representatives and of democrats when it historically the pendulum goes back and forth that would mean potentially that they would call for impeachment hearings against donald trump this may be on the minds of the president because rumor to replace dom again is a man by the name of emmett flood and the reason that name is interesting is the fact that he represented president bill clinton during his impeachment proceedings back in the one nine hundred ninety s. committee out there live from washington d.c. kimberly thank you well the fifty thousand people have been forced from their homes and sent to me in march after possible burst flooding times in villages government officials say the swat shown that dam s

mcgann is cooperating with robert mueller's russia meddling investigation. the president tweeting mcgann isn't a john dean type rat. dean, the white house counsel for president nixon during watergate. mr. trump's current lawyers says mueller and his investigators have nothing on the president. >> this whole mcgann thing leaked from them. if they had some kind of evidence that there was collusion or there was obstruction, don't you think it have been leaked? they leak everything else. >> reporter: giuliani believes mcgann is a strong witness for the president despite everything mcgann said to mueller. he allowed mcgann and others to testify, since he has nothing to hide. according to the "new york time times", mcgann has spoken with mueller's investigators at least three times, about 30 hours' worth of voluntary interviews. jennifer johnson, nbc news, washington. >>> continuing coverage of the developments in washington, d.c., coming up on "nightly news." tune in at 5:30 here on nbc bay area. >>> a fund-raiser is taking place tomorrow to help the family of a

mcgann and the president i've been hearing about this since even last fall so part of me wonders what took them so long but i think this is the natural course of events here when you're dealing with someone like president trompe someone who doesn't mind changing horses midstream we've seen that with the onset of rudy giuliani coming onto his legal team and i think don began it was more of the the old school washington d.c. type of attorney that president trump thought he needed in the beginning but now i think president trump is starting to see as his poll numbers continue to rise as he continues to explain this investigation to the american people that he actually needs to win in the court of public opinion as well and that's why you see him bringing on people like rudy giuliani and people like don began heading out the door brian g.o.p. leaders publicly expressing concern he was seen as someone who could stop the presidency from firing robert muller what do you make of this ryan well i commend him for trying to put as positive a spin on this as possible but the fact is larry this is

mcgann a brilliant legal mind but now he's leaving the white house adding to speculation that another member of trump's inner circle is turning against him a lot of affection for done until the movie and probably the private sector maybe a great change here and will be very well but he's. done an excellent job but it's been rumored that mcgann had been threatening to leave for weeks after getting pushed back for advising trump not to fire special counsel robert muller who's heading up the probe into possible collusion and russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election trump is reportedly furious mcgann is cooperating with muller giving thirty hours of testimony to the special counsel's team. that. he follows a string of close friends and advisers that are now reportedly cooperating with the investigation those include his long time personal attorney michael cohen who pled guilty last week to campaign finance violations they also include alan weisel burke chief financial officer of the trump organization and longtime friend david packer who was involved in hush money payments

mcgann plans to go to the private sector and that he is not concerned about what don mcgann told bob mueller. hiring.employers are announcement the on life go and we will ring you information that is more pressing. caroline: fascinating stuff. we are one hour from the close of trading. >> the bulls in charge for a fourth day in a row. the nasdaq solid to impressive gains. nasdaq putting in an all-time high. comments through the trade agreement, investors feeling good. bloomberg and the take a look at what is happening. of the 11 sectors trading higher on bottom of a telecom in real estate. a bit of a defensive second your. consumer discretionary, tag and energy. tech was the top sector. the consumer discretionary sector year, let's take a look at those tech movers. inle and microsoft putting new highs. paypal up 2.1%. the company is more than them. takebet is one of the calls on the day. target, 15%.rice that is not all. up 3.2%. brian raising his price target. liking thef the call margins story. trading higher this as it was up graded at deutsche bank on sentiment. we have the deal,

president trump says counsel don mcgann will depart this fall, what it means for the president's ability to fight the mueller probe. david: we got u.s. gdp growth numbers and heard from the canadian foreign minis