President Donald Trump plans to hire Emmet Flood, a Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment, to replace retiring White House lawyer Ty Cobb, the New York Times reported Wednesday. Cobb has taken the lead in dealing with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Flood was the lead lawyer in the White House Counsel's Office during George W. Bush's second term, and, in private practice, represented former Vice President Dick Cheney. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon: "For several weeks Ty Cobb has been discussing his retirement and last week he let Chief of Staff [John] Kelly know he would retire at the end of this month."