NEW: The White House will instruct former White House counsel Donald McGahn not to comply with a subpoena from House Democrats for documents related to the Mueller investigation, according to press secretary Sarah Sanders.
The White House will instruct former White House counsel Donald McGahn not to comply with a subpoena from House Democrats for documents related to the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, according to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.
McGahn was a central figure in the Mueller report who cooperated extensively with the special counsel’s probe, meeting with his team at least three times and questioned more extensively than any other member of the White House staff who went in for an interview. The deadline for McGahn to produce documents to the committee is Tuesday and Democrats have requested McGahn testify before the committee later this month.
ABC News previously reported that McGahn was among the White House staffers who were against any notion of President Trump’s firing of special counsel Mueller last June when the president wanted to do just that, a source said.
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