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Him through this committee for eight months. So i think following proceed sure is something that you have to look at because your idea is not really point of order. The time has expired. If he wishes. He doesnt wish. Good morning, mr mr. Lewandowski. Im questioning you right now. Thank you. The president asked you who had no role at all in the white house to deliver that message to Attorney General sessions. The president could have just picked up the phone himself at any time and called the Att...

Office? >> i suppose i could have, but i chose -- i wanted to have a discussion with jeff, as we have had so many occasions before that. >> exactly. >> never inside the department of justice. >> not only did sessions know it was wrong and sessions cancelled his meeting with you, if you were good friends, why would he have bothered to cancel it? did he call you to reschedule it? >> that would be a question for jeff sessions. >> after you testified, and you testified earlier after the inauguration...

Essentially? i mean, it was a very important message you were delivering from the president. it was a message that could certainly be viewed as completely inappropriate, considering that you were not even an employee of the white house. youre a private citizen, youre delivering a citizen to the attorney general to limit the investigation. so if you didnt think you were doing anything wrong, then why would it matter that there was a public log? >> i wanted to have the opportunity to speak with je...

Wrong. thats what he wanted you to deliver to attorney general jeff sessions, correct? >> i believe thats an accurate representation. >> and he wanted you to deliver it to jeff so that jeff could say it to the people, right? >> i believe so. >> and you felt kind of squeamish, like that fish that youre trying to be right now, being scaled. you felt squeamish about delivering that message, correct? >> no, sir. >> well, why didnt you -- why did it take you so long and you never even delivered it. >...

Wanted jeff to say it, correct? >> i believe the mueller report accurately depicts that. >> and mr. lewandowski, weve projected on the screen the message that the president dictated to you that he wanted you to deliver to the attorney general. its on the screen. id like for you to read the first two sentences, if you would entertain that. >> as director mueller stated when asked to read from the report, and i quote, i would be happy to have you read it, congressman. >> would you prefer for me to...

To meet in person rather than on the phone. you could have just read the message from the president over the phone, but you knew it would make it harder to persuade sessions to do what you wanted, so you wanted to meet with him in person, correct? >> if thats what the report states, yes. >> so the attorney general works at the department of justice, but you told the special counsel that you didnt want to meet in the department of justice because you knew if he went into a government building, th...

Write this down, isnt that correct? >> thats accurate. >> and it was just you and the president in that meeting, correct? >> it was. >> and you knew that you needed to write down as fast as possible what the president was telling you so that you could make sure to capture the content of what he was telling you correctly, correct? >> i dont know that speed of writing was a criteria, but i tried to capture it to the best of my ability, congressman. >> thank you, sir. he dictated to you exactly wha...