From The New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The special counsel in the Russia investigation has learned of two conversations in recent months in which President Trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators, according to three people familiar with the encounters.
In one episode, the president told an aide that the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, should issue a statement denying a New York Times article in January. The article said Mr. McGahn told investigators that the president once asked him to fire the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. Mr. McGahn never released a statement and later had to remind the president that he had indeed asked Mr. McGahn to see that Mr. Mueller was dismissed, the people said.
In the other episode, Mr. Trump asked his former chief of staff, Reince Priebus, how his interview had gone with the special counsel’s investigators and whether they had been “nice,” according to two people familiar with the discussion.
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As Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney, just said on MSNBC, this is probably the worst thing a target of a federal probe could do, especially if they want to appear not guilty. If you are innocent, you don’t care what people talked about.
Maybe SNL’s Michael Che as Lester Holt is right — maybe nothing matters anymore. Let’s hope not! Good luck, Mr. Mueller.
Update 1: 9:06pm EST:
Ari Melber, just now, said on MSNBC (filling in for Rachel), that if this is being leaked by Don McGahn, who had to “remind” the president that indeed he had asked him to fire Mueller, just imagine what else McGahn is telling Mueller that ISN’T being leaked.
MSNBC also just interviewed the defense attorney who represented Bin Laden’s driver, and he said that even that guy behaved more lawfully during his investigation than Trump is currently behaving.