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Question. >> gentleman from florida. >> director mueller i'd like to get back to your findings covering june of 2017. there was a bauchombshell artic that the president of the united states was personally under investigation for obstruction of justice. and you said in your report on page 90, volume 2 and i quote, news of the obstruction investigation prompted the president to call mcgahn and seek to have the special counsel removed, closed quote. and then in your report you wrote about multiple calls from the president to white house counsel don mcgahn. and regarding the second call you wrote ...

Now, a few questions on page 103 of volume 2 of your report when discussing the june 2016 trump tower meeting you referenced, quote, the firm that produced steel reporting, unquote, the name of that firm was fusion gps, is that correct? >> and you're on page 103? >> 103, that's correct, volume 2. when you talk about the firm that produced the steele reporting, the name of the firm that produced that is fusion gps, is that correct? >> i'm not familiar with that. >> it's not a trick question. it was fusion gps. now, fusion gps produced the opposition research document widely known as the steele ...

>> yes. >> and yet the president repeatedly expressed his disploegser to recuse himself from oversight of that investigation? is that not correct? >> that's accurate based on what's written in the report. >> and the president's reaction to the recusal as noted in the report, mr. bannon recalled that the president was mad -- was mad as bannon had ever seen him and he screamed at mcgahn about how weak sessions was. do you recall that from the report? >> that's in the report, yes. >> despite knowing attorney general sessions were nauz supposed to be involved n investigation the president still tr...

>> i send you back to the report. >> okay. well on page 113, it says, quote, the president then directed porter to tell mcgahn to create a record, to make it clear that the president never directed mcgahn to fire you. end quote. is that correct? >> that is as it's stated in the report. >> and you found, quote, the president said he wanted mcgahn to write a letter to the file for our records. correct? >> correct. >> and to be clear the president is asking his white house counsel don mcgahn to create a record that mcgahn believed to be untrue while you were in the midst of investigating the pres...

>> i can't answer that question. >> well, on page 89 in your report in volume 23 you said and i quote, substantial evidence indicates that the president's attempt to remove the special counsel were linked to the special counsel's oversight of investigations that involve the president's conduct. and most immediately to reports that the president was being investigated for potential obstruction of justice, closed quote. director mueller, you found evidence as you lay out in your report that the president wanted to fire you because you were investigating him for obstruction of justice, isn't that...