The liberal media was all abuzz Wednesday when news broke that President Trump was, once again, shaking up his legal team. Trump lawyer Ty Cobb was retiring and the President was bringing on Clinton impeachment lawyer Emmet Flood. With the switch came predictions that the President was looking for a bloody fight with the special counsel. And with the hype that seemed like it belonged to a major boxing match, NBC Nightly News appeared to be eagerly looking forward to it.

With the new contender appearing in Trump’s corner, anchor Lester Holt began the segment by sizing up team Trump. “Ty Cobb is out and a new heavy hitter who acted as Bill Clinton's impeachment lawyer is in. It comes amid signs the Trump team is shifting tactics preparing for a battle and a potential confrontation over a subpoena,” he announced. But he was no Michael Buffer.

NBC Chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson started her report by noting the hiring of Flood meant “new signs of a more aggressive chapter” in their battle with the special counsel. “His hiring seen as a signal the President may rely more heavily on executive privilege, which could shut down certain questions from Robert Mueller.”

“So what happens if both sides cannot come to an agreement,” she asked rhetorically. She explained that the President could, in fact, be subpoenaed and recalled the ones who were (Jefferson, Nixon, and Clinton). She then went down the list of exciting options they could witness in the potential upcoming bout:

Option one, testify and answer questions, like the president said he would be willing to do last summer. (…) Option two, plead the fifth and answer no questions. A maneuver he's blasted before. (…) Option three, fight the subpoena. That would open up a legal battle that could go all the way to the Supreme Court. Then there’s option four, ignore the subpoena, which would put the President in uncharted territory.

It was clear which route they were hoping for because Jackson brought on a former assistant U.S. Attorney who stated that “[t]he likelihood of some kind of subpoena coming into play is becoming more and more real.” “It's not just the legal component. There’s also a political piece of this that comes into play if the President does say, decide to fight a subpoena. He may face political fallout, especially with the midterms just around the corner,” Jackson added as she was wrapping up her report.

But that wasn’t the end of their subpoena battle fantasy because they actually had a second segment set aside to go over it some more. “We could be entering as we heard, uncharted territory. What happens if Mueller issues a subpoena and the President simply refuses or ignores it,” Holt asked NBC Justice correspondent Pete Williams.

Although he thought “that scenario seem[ed] very farfetched,” Williams humored his colleague by explaining how “if he ignores it, Mueller could go to court for an order to compel him to obey the subpoena and if he still ignores it, he could be found in contempt of court and fined.”

After talking about how such fights had turned out in the past, Williams concluded that it was a no-win situation for President Trump. “So nobody can be sure how this would turn out but that doesn't seem like there is much reason for the White House to be optimistic that it would win such a fight.”

For an organization that’s supposed to just report the news, they were obviously pulling for a particular scenario that would be good for their side.

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read: