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Meeting was a russian attorney who advocated for the repeal of the magnitsky act. she had been working with glenn simpson and fusion gps since at least early 2014, are you aware of that? >> outside my purview. >> you didnt meanings that or her connections to glenn simpson and fusion gps in your report at all. nbc news reported the following. russian lawyer says she first received a supposedly incriminating information she brought to trump tower describing alleged tax evasion and donation to demo...

Silly and not real conflicts, isnt that true? >> i refer to the report on that episode. >> well, page 85 of volume 2 speaks to that. and also director mueller doj ethics officials confirmed that you had no conflicts that would prevent you from serving as special counsel, isnt that correct? >> thats correct. >> but despite don mcgahn and the department of justice guidance, around may 23, 2017, the president quote prodded mcgahn to complain to deputy attorney general rosenstein about these suppose...

Report right now? >> not when i read it. >> you change your answer to yes then. >> no, no. if you look at the language -- >> im reading your report, sir, its a yes or no answer. page 180, volume 1. from your report. >> correct. i leave it with the report. >> so the report says yes theyre synonymous. we can put to bed the collusion and conspiracy. one last question as were going through. did you look into other countries investigated in the russian interference into our election. were other count...

Data to further its sweeping and systematic interference in the presidential election? >> thats a little bit out of our path. >> fair enough. did your investigation find the russian government perceived it would benefit from one of the candidates winning? >> yes. >> and which candidate would that be? >> well, it would be trump. >> correct. >> the president. >> the trump campaign wasnt exactly are -- reluctant to take russian help. >> thats correct. >> was the investigations determination -- what...

Witness. and 1512c2 talks about tampering with the record of as joe biden described the statute as being debated on the senate floor, he called this a statute criminalizing document sh reading and there is nothing in your report that alleges that the president destroyed any evidence. so what i have to ask you and what i think people are working around in this hearing is let me lay a little foundation. the ethical rules require that a prosecutor have a reasonable probability of conviction to brin...

Votes in midwestern states months before that meeting manafort had caused internal data to be shared and the sharing continued for some period of time after their august meeting, isnt that correct? >> accurate. >> your investigation found that manafort briefed the russians on the state of the trump campaign and manaforts plan to win the election and that was the campaigns message. internal polling data and discussion of battleground states which manafort identified as michigan, wisconsin, pennsy...

>> the gentleman lady from alabama. >> you just said in response to two different lines of questioning that you would refer as it relates to this firing discussion that i would refer you to the report and the way it was characterized in the report. importantly, the president never said fire mueller or in the investigation. one doesnt necessitate the other. mcgahn in fact did not resign he stuck around for a year and a half. on march 24 barr said he received the special counsels report and not un...

That on -- page 85, volume 2, that on saturday, june 17th, 2017, the president called mcgahn at home to have the special counsel removed. now, did the president call don mcgahn more than once that day? >> well, -- >> i think it was two calls. on page 85 of your report you wrote, quote, on the first call, mcgahn recalled that the president said something like quote youve got to do this. you have to call rod, correct? >> correct. >> your investigation and report found that don mcgahn was perturbed...

Them? >> whatever was said will appear in the report. >> it is. it says on page 87 priebus recalled that mcgahn said that the president asked him to do crazy expletive. in other words, crazy stuff. the white house counsel thought that the presidents request was completely out of bounds. he said the president asked him to do something crazy. it was wrong. and he was prepared to resign over it. now, these are extraordinarily troubling events but you found white house counsel mcgahn to be a credibl...

Discussion after what happened after the production of our report. >> had the attorney general asked you provide a redacted version of the report? >> we worked on redacted versions together. >> did he ask you for a version with the grand jury material was separated? >> not going to get into details. >> is it your belief an unredacted version of the report could be released to congress on the public. >> thats not within my purview. >> rule 6e material. why didnt you take a similar action so congr...