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Volume 1, 193. He lied three times. Why didnt you charge him with a crime . I cant get into internal deliberations as to what or would not be you charged a lot of people from making false statements. Lets remember this. In 2016 the fbi did something they probably havent done before. They spied on two american citizens associated with the president ial campaign. George papadopoulos and carter page. Was carter page who then went to the g the fisa court. With mr. Papadopoulos they didnt go to the c...

We have to hear from other witnesses who testified to mueller but we need to hear and the american people need to hear their testimony directly. this is blocked and were going to court to unblock it. >> chairman nadler says committee lawyers will be in court tomorrow, tomorrow seeking to enforce their subpoena of don mcgahn as a witness, his name appears in the mueller report more than 500 times and several committee members asked robert mueller was don mcgahn yesterday. >> your investigation fo...

To him. we have to hear from other witnesses who testified to mueller but we need to hear and the american people need to hear their testimony directly. this is blocked and were going to court to unblock it. >> chairman nadler says committee lawyers will be in court tomorrow, tomorrow seeking to enforce their subpoena of don mcgahn as a witness, his name appears in the mueller report more than 500 times and several committee members asked robert mueller was don mcgahn yesterday. >> your investig...

Going all the way back to the 60s when you served in vietnam. because i have a seat on the intelligence committee ill have questions later and because of our limited time i will ask to enter this letter into >> without objection. >> i yield to my colleague from california, mr. liu. >> thank you, director mueller, for your long history of service to our country, including your service as a marine, where you earned a bronze star. id like to turn to the elements of obstruction of justice as applied...

Refusal to deny "the new york times" report about the president trying to fire you, correct? >> correct. >> in fact, the presidents counsel was so alarmed by the prospect of the presidents meeting with mcgahn that he called his counsel and said that mcgahn could not resign no matter what happened in the oval office that day. correct? >> correct. >> so its accurate to say that the president knew that he was asking mcgahn to deny facts that mcgahn quote, had repeatedly said said were accurate, unq...

You quoted the part where he said we need some kind of heads up for the sake of protecting our interests. but you omitted the part where he said without giving up any confidential information. >> im not going to go further in terms of discussing -- >> lets go on. you extensively discuss activities with paul manafort. you describe him as quote, a russian ukrainian political consultant and long-time employee of paul manafort assessed by the fbi to have ties to russian intelligence. again, thats al...

Meant there? >> i just believe -- as it appears in the report. >> so its fair to say that the president tried to protect himself by asking staff to falsify records relevant to an ongoing investigation? >> i would say thats generally a summary. >> would you say that that action -- the president tried to hamper the investigation by asking staff to falsify records relevant to your investigation? >> i have to refer you to the report if i could for review of that -- that episode. >> thank you. also t...

>> that would be evidence of an obstructive act because it would naturally obstruct their investigation, correct? >> correct. >> okay. lets turn now to the second element of the crime of obstruction of justice, which requires a nexus to an official proceeding. again, page 97 of volume two. you wrote, quote, by the time the presidents initial one-on-one meeting with lewandowski, existence of a grand jury investigation supervised by the special counsel was public knowledge. thats in the report, co...

>> and that was starting with -- >> substantial evidence. >> indicates that the presidents -- >> if you could read that first sentence? >> im happy to have you read it. >> okay. ill read it then. >> you wrote, quote, substantial evidence indicates that the presidents effort to have sessions limit the scope of the special counsels investigation into future election interference was to prevent further investigative scrutiny of the president and his campaigns conduct, end quote. thats in the report...

President knew that he should not have directed don mcgahn to fire the special counsel, correct? >> and where do you have that quote? >> page 90, volume two. theres evidence that the president knew he should not have made those calls to mcgahn, closed quote. >> i see that, yes. thats accurate. >> the investigation also found substantial evidence that president trump repeatedly urgeled mcgahn to dispute that he was having the special counsel terminated, correct? >> correct. >> the investigation f...