Third, the President’s sense of urgency and repeated requests to McGahn to take immediate action on a weekend—“You gotta do this.
Third, the President’s sense of urgency and repeated requests to McGahn to take immediate action on a weekend—“ You gotta do this. You gotta call Rod.”—support McGahn’s recollection that the President wanted the Department of Justice to take action to remove the Special Counsel. Had the President instead sought only to have the Department of Justice re-examine asserted conflicts to evaluate whether they posed an ethical bar, it would have been unnecessary to set the process in motion on a Saturday and to make repeated calls to McGahn.
