But if you put aside -- and I'm not going to defend someone leaking something -- that one of the possibilities you mentioned is this was taken and put aside for the special prosecutor, the other possibility is very alarming.
Lockhart discusses the implications of leaking information related to a special prosecutor.
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The administration has known this for as many as 17 months, that these explosives were missing. They had no intention of sharing that information with the American public before the election.
I think Don McGahn feels like the wild card here. Thirty hours, never debrief by the White House counsel, the new White House counsel. That's what I think they're worried about.
He has undermined institutions purposefully since he's taken office, even when he was running.
But the political question is the optics of the President of the United States tying the courts up for the next year or two to cope himself from going in and telling the truth to the prosecutor are very bad political optics.