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To the accused, for bbiforbidde doing anything regarding the mueller report. mr. lewandowski tried to meet with the former ag. when that failed he tried to pass the buck to mr. dearborn, all while telling the president he would follow through on the presidents orders. so that is what we want to try to learn more about today. as we learned with special counsel mueller, witness testimony is critical to any investigation. but the white house does not want us or the american people to hear the story...

>> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you, press. >> thank you. >> all right. so just a few words there from president trump, exchanging some pleasantries with the french president emmanuel macron, talking about the u.s. hosting next year for the group of seven meeting and weather and all of that. but of course they have some very serious topics to cover over the next three days. this was just a working lunch, a greeting between the u.s. president and the president of the host country. ...

Its full article 1 powers, including a constitutional power of the utmost gravity, recommendation of articles of impeachment. that duty falls in the first instance to the house committee on the judiciary, close quote. as i said, that was from the court filing today. we take that responsibility seriously. no one can be above the law, not even president trump. well now take some questions. >> so half of the members up here -- >> let me just say as we take questions, you can ask members of the comm...

Go, to letting flynn go. hes a good guy, and i hope you can let it go, close quote. page 40, volume two. >> accurate. >> what did comey understand the president to be asking? >> im not going to get into what was in mr. comeys mind. >> comey understood this to be a direction because of the presidents position and the circumstances of the one-to-one meeting, page 40, volume two. >> i understand its in the report. i support it as being in the report. >> thank you, sir. even though the president pub...

You found substantial evidence that the catalyst for the presidents firing of comey was comeys, open quote, unwillingness to publicly state that the president was not personally under investigation. >> im not going to delve more into the details of what happened. if its in the report, then i support it because its already been reviewed and appropriately appears in the report. >> and thats page 75, volume two. in fact, the very next day, the president told the russian foreign minister, open quote...

Knocking out mueller would be another fact to claim obstruction of justice. >> generally so, yes. >> in other words, the white house counsel told the president that if he tried to remove you, that that could be another basis to allege that the president was obstructing justice, correct? >> that is generally correct, yes. >> now, i would like to review what happened after the president was warned about obstructing justice. on tuesday, jun -- >> do you have the citation for that? >> yes, volume tw...

Write-up of it in the report. >> didnt the president say on page 116, if he doesnt write a letter maybe ill have to get rid of him end quote. >> yes. >> did porter deliver that threat? >> i again refer you to the discussion thats found on page 115. >> okay. but the president still didnt give up, did he? the president told mcgahn directly to deny that the president told him to have you fired. can you tell me exactly what happened? >> i cant beyond whats in the report. >> well on page 116, it says...

What mr. ratcliffe said. even the president is innocent until proven guilty. my time is up. >> the gentleman from tennessee. >> thank you, mr. chair. first i would just like to restate that mr. nadler said about your career. it is a model of rectitude and i thank you. based upon your investigation, how did president trump react to your appointment as special counsel? >> i send you the report where that is stated. >> there is a quote from page 78 of your report volume 2 which reads when sessions ...

>> i cant answer that question. >> well, on page 89 in your report volume 2 you said, and i quote, substantial evidence indicates that the presidents attempts to remove the special counsel were linked to the special counsels oversight of investigations that involved the presidents conduct and most immediately to reports that the president was being investigated for potential obstruction of justice, close quote. director mueller, you found evidence, as you lay out in your report, that the preside...

York times" reported that, quote, the president had ordered mcgahn to have the department of justice fire you. is that correct? >> correct. >> and that story related to the events you already testified about here today, the presidents calls to mcgahn to have you removed, correct? >> correct. >> after the news broke, did the president go on tv and deny the story? >> do not know. >> in fact, the president said, quote, fake news, folks, fake news, a typical "new york times" fake story, end quote, c...