Mcgahn in a sentence

In early 2018, the press reported that the President had directed McGahn to have the Special Counsel removed in June 2017 and that McGahn had threatened to resign rather than carry out the order.

The Democrats will point to a handful of episodes reviewed by Mueller, including Trump's directions to White House Counsel Donald McGahn to have Mueller removed and, once that was made public, orders from Trump to McGahn to deny it happened.

The President then directed Porter to tell McGahn to create a record to make clear that the President never directed McGahn to fire the Special Counsel.

Earlier this month, sources close to the White House said McGahn was likely to leave his White House post after Kavanaugh’s confirmation — with McGahn hoping to first notch a second successful Supreme Court nomination.

When Don McGahn, who was counsel at the time, didn’t do that and Sessions ended up appointing special counsel Robert Mueller, Trump went bananas.

And that would be McGahn's legacy.

But Justice Department lawyers argued McGahn left his post before the July Trump phone call with the Ukrainian president that is at the heart of the impeachment articles.

But McGahn is essentially there and saying, Look, these prosecutors need to hear from me everything first, because I don't think I did anything wrong.

But time is getting short if the House hopes to have McGahn or other officials testify before November’s elections.

Don McGahn sits behind Donald Trump at the White House in June 2018.

First, Trump did fire people in relation to the Russia investigation, including former FBI Director James Comeytried to fire former special counsel Robert Mueller but was thwarted by then-White House counsel Don McGahn.

He also says impeachment could be back on the table if McGahn’s testimony reveals evidence of criminal obstruction of justice or other potential high crimes.

He pointed out that if Mr. McGahn did show up but Mr. Trump then invoked executive privilege to block him from answering specific questions, the same matter would end up right back in court.

In addition, it considered the McGahn dispute in tandem with another legal fight between the House and the Trump administration: a suit seeking to block officials from spending money on Trump’s border wall project.

In interviews with Mueller's team, McGahn described being called at home by the president on the night of June 17, 2017, and being directed to call the Justice Department and say Mueller had conflicts of interest and should be removed.

President Donald Trump scored a major legal victory on Friday when a federal appeals court overturned a lower court's ruling that required former White House counsel Don McGahn answer congressional subpoenas.

Separately, emails and other records obtained by ProPublica show Chacona had frequent, friendly interactions on matters professional and personal with McGahn.

The case against Mr. McGahn was only the first of several brought last year against the executive branch by House Democrats seeking to enforce their subpoenas.

The Democratic-dominated court was broadly skeptical of Trump administration arguments that judges have no role to play in the dispute over a subpoena for McGahn’s testimony that was issued a year ago by a House committee.

The House sought McGahn’s testimony last May, but the White House asserted that he was “absolutely immune” from complying with a congressional investigation and ordered him not to appear.