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Highlight the importance of the committee's ongoing investigation. our experienced staff is interviewing all relevant parties and some of the most sensitive intelligence in our country's possession. we will establish the facts, separate from rampant speculation and lay them e them o -- out for american speculation. only then we will move forward to put this episode to address. there are several outstanding issues not addressed in your statement i hope you will clear up for the american people today. did the president's request for loyalty, your impression, that the one-on one dinner of january...

Russian investigation, in general? >> yes, sir. >> but the specific ask was that you would tell the american people what you had already told him, told the leaders of congress, both democrat and republicans, that he was not personally under investigation? >> yes, sir. >> in fact, he was asking you to do what you have done here today? >> correct. yes, sir. >> okay. and again at that setting, did you say to the president that it would be inappropriate for to you do so and then talk to the white house counsel and anybody so hopefully they would talk to him and tell him he couldn't do this? >> the...

Clearness of it, but also the fact that you have things that were written down cop temp rainiously when they happened, and you tilely put them in quotes so we know exactly what happened and we're not getting some rendition of it that's in your mind. >> thank you, sir. >> you're so be complimented. >> i had great parents and great teachers who beat that into me. >> that's obvious, sir. the chairman walked you through a number of things that the american people need to know and want to know. number one, obviously, we all know about the active measures that the russians have taken. i think a lot ...

Important statement you just made. then, unlike your dealings with presidents of either parties in your past experience, in every subsequent meeting or conversation with this president, you created a written record. did you feel that you needed to create this written record of these memos, because they might need to be relied on at some future date? >> sure. i created records after conversations that i think i did it after each of our nine conversations. if i didn't, i did it for nearly all of them especially the ones that were substantive. i knew there might come a day when i would need a rec...

To write it down and i got to write it down in a detailed way. >> that's an important statement you just made. my understanding is then again unlike you are dealing with presidents of either parties in your past experience, in every subsequent meeting or conversation with this president, you created a written record. did you feel you needed to create this written ecord, these memos, because they might need to be relied on at some future date? >> sure. i created records of conversations. i think i did it after each of our nine conversations, if i didn't, i did it for nearly all of them, especi...