The committee has scheduled a Wednesday vote to recommend a contempt citation to the full House. “That’s what he is doing, every single day he is just, like, taunting, taunting, taunting. director; attempts to fire Mr. Mueller; and the president’s effort to have Mr. McGahn write a false document recanting what he told investigators. In the days after the report was released, Mr. Trump’s defense lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani sought to discredit Mr. McGahn and questioned his credibility as a witness. The attacks irritated Mr. McGahn, and Mr. Burck privately warned the White House that Mr. Giuliani’s gambit would likely boomerang on the president and only enhance the House’s argument that Mr. McGahn needed to testify, according to two people familiar with the discussions.

Source: New York Times May 07, 2019 15:12 UTC