What's the White House Council's Function?

The president did not sit down with the white house council before the meeting with comy, at which he asked for loyalty. He doesn't ask mc gan whether that call is a good idea, right? And there's the sequence of things that presumably megan is finding out about only after the fbi director has been removed,. The ship has have saled on a bunch of the conduct in question. So i'am going to be shooting a little bit in the dark, obviousl i cannot be all that precise about what the white house countel these circumstances should have done. But speaking in the mostgen terms at this point, and this is why i originally mentioned the west wing