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The investigation. Is that right . Thats correct. And you have a citation . Page seven, volume two. Thank you. One of these witnesses was michael cohen, the president s personal lawyer, who ultimately pled guilty to Campaign Violations based on secret hush money payments to two women the president knew and also to lying to congress about the hope for a 1 billion trump tower deal. After the fbi searched cohens home, the president called him up personally, he said to check in, and told him to, quo...

Correct. You found in your investigation july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack Hillary Clintons email for the first time they did about five hours later, correct . Thats correct. You found august 2 that mr. Manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence, mr. Kilimnik, gave him internal Campaign Strategy where russia was intending to do a misinformation campaign. Im not certain of the tie. The fact of the meeting yes, that is accurate. Your investigation as i understand it ...

And is that why you didnt do the interview? >> no, there is a balance how much evidence you have to satisfy the last element against how much time are you willing to spend in the courts litigating the interview of the president. the reason we didnt do the interview because of the length of time it would take to resolve the issues attending to that. >> joining our discussion now is sean patrick maloney of new york. congressman, thank you for asking the question that i wanted to ask but it was suc...

Evidence of the presidents intent to obstruct justice is and is that why you didnt do the interview? >> no, there is a balance how much evidence you have to satisfy the last element against how much time are you willing to spend in the courts litigating the interview of the president. the reason we didnt do the interview because of the length of time it would take to resolve the issues attending to that. >> joining our discussion now is sean patrick maloney of new york. congressman, thank you fo...

In, and made him answer some tough questions. i think we will always wish that had happened. but the directors point is worth listening to. he said, page 13, volume ii, and look at appendix c to the whole report. he said very clearly, they believe there was sufficient and substantial evidence of the presidents intent. and so i think what hes trying to say is we already had it. >> you know, its interesting, though, what mueller is saying about subpoenaing the president in time is sort of the same...

>> the expectation was if we did subpoena the president, he would fight the president and we would be in the midst of the investigation for a substantial period of time. >> right. but as we sit here, youve never had an opportunity to ask the president in person questions under oath, so obviously that must have been a difficult decision. and youre right, appendix c lays that out and indeed, i believe you described the in-person interview as vital. thats your word. and, of course, to be clear you ...

Report. were going to put it up on a slide, i think. according to deputy campaign manager rick gates, in the summer of 2016, he and candidate trump were on the way to an airport shortly after wikileaks released its first set of stolen emails. and gates told your investigators that candidate trump was on a phone call, and when the call ended, trump told gates that more releases of damaging information would be coming, end quote. do you recall that from the report? >> if its in the report, i suppo...

Appendix c, specifically c-13, states as much. according to page 100 of volume two of your report, your investigation found that hope hicks, the presidents communications director, in june of 2017 was shown emails that set up the trump tower meeting, and she told your office that she was, quote, shocked by the emails, because they looked, quote, really bad. true? >> do you have the citation? >> sure. page 100 of volume two. while youre flipping to that page, director mueller, i will tell you acc...

Of the investigation. >> was that -- >> i was going to say, the expectation was if we did subpoena for the president, he would fight it and we would be in the midst of the investigation for a substantial period of time. >> as we sit here, you never had an opportunity to ask the president in person questions under oath. so obviously that must have been a difficult decision. youre right, appendix c lays that out. you described the in-person interview as vital, your word and you made clear you had ...