DEAN: This just in. Emmet Flood, the lawyer who has been serving as White House special counsel with a focus on the Mueller investigation, will be leaving in two weeks. President Trump announced the move in a tweet just moments ago, saying, "Emmet Flood, who came to the White House to help me with the Mueller report, will be leaving service on June 14th. He has done an outstanding job. No collusion, no obstruction, case closed. Emmet is my friend, and I thank him for the great job he has done." CNN White House reporter, Sarah Westwood, joining us now. Sarah, of course, the Mueller report not ruling on obstruction there, but what more can you tell us about Emmet Flood's departure?</s>SARAH WESTWOOD, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Jessica, Emmet Flood was brought on to be the White House's top lawyer representing President Trump for the Russia investigation. He succeeded Ty Cobb in that role. He came on last summer. So as the Russia investigation has wound down, he really hasn't had much of a role. He has had less and less to do. And a source tells our colleague, Jeremy Diamond, that President Trump and Emmet Flood met in the Oval Office yesterday to discuss Flood's exit. That was widely expected. Though, at one point, President Trump had considered Flood to potentially be his White House counsel to replace outgoing White House counsel, Don McGahn. But, ultimately, President Trump put Pat Cipollone in that role. So Cipollone has been handling the White House's responses or nonresponses to congressional oversight attempts to House Democrats requesting documents and testimony from the White House. There had been questions, according to sources, that potentially Emmet Flood would stay on to maybe help with some of those inquiries, especially if it led to impeachment proceedings, but that hasn't happened yet. And sources say Flood has expressed a desire to return to the private sector, much like Robert Mueller -- Jessica?</s>DEAN: Sarah Westwood, from the White House. Thanks so much. Coming up, we hear from the witness who took this heartbreaking photo at the scene of the Virginia Beach mass shooting.
Trump Announces White House Special Counsel Emmet Flood to Leave Post