would not be legal >> you said, sir, you never did anything other than that was completely legal and you said so because if you delivered that message that told the attorney general to instruct the special counsel to limit the investigation to exclude the president, that would not be legal. isn't that correct, sir? >> mr. burke, i didn't have the privilege of going to harvard law cool and i'm not an attorney so what i know is i didn't think at the time that the president asked me to deliver a message, that anything was illegal about it i didn't have the privilege to go to harvard law. so if you're telling me that in your opinion that would have been illegal, that's your opinion, too, but i never assumed that, didn't think about it at the time and haven't thought about now. >> why didn't you deliver the message the president asked you to deliver unless you didn't deliver it because you knew it was improper to deliver? >> mr. berke, it wasn't a priority >> it sure reads like a priority in the mueller report. throughout the day corwin lewandowski refused to answer multiple questions about his conversations with anyone working in the white house