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The president still directed her to say the meeting was only about russian adoption, correct? >> yes. >> despite knowing that to be untrue. thank you, director mueller. i yield back the balance of my time. >> mr. mueller, you've been asked a lot of questions here today. to be frank, you've performed as most of us expected. you've stuck closely to your report, and you have declined to answer many of our questions on both sides. as the closer for the republican side, i know you're glad to get to the close, i want to summarize the highlights of what we have heard and what we know. you spent two y...

Clause c-2 a much broader interpretation. first, reading it in isolation, all-encompassing provision, prohibiting any act. second, your analysis of this statute to apply this -- proposes to apply this sweeping prohibition to lawful acts by public officials if those acts influence a proceeding. so mr. mueller, i'd ask you, in analyzing the obstruction, you state that you recognize the department of justice and courts have not definitively resolved these issues, correct? >> correct. >> you'd agree that not everyone in the justice department agreed with your legal theory of the obstruction of jus...

President intended to encourage manafort to not cooperate with the government. it is clear that the president both publicly and privately discouraged mr. manafort's cooperation or flipping while also dangling the promise of a pardon if he stayed loyal and did not share what he knew about the president. anyone else who did these things would be prosecuted for them. we must ensure that no one is above the law. i thank you for being here, director mueller. i yield back. >> gentleman from pennsylvania. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. mueller, i'm over here. i'm sorry. mr. mueller, are you familiar...

Since nobody but lawyers reads footnotes, are you concerned the american public took the embedded news stories -- >> time of the gentlelady is expired. >> can mr. mueller answer the question? >> no, we're running short on time. i said the gentlelady from washington. >> thank you. direct to be mueller, let's turn to the fifth of the obstruction episodes in your report. that's the evidence of whether president trump engaged in witness tampering with trump campaign chairman paul manafort, whose foreign ties were critical to your investigation into russia's interference in our elections. this star...

You found substantial evidence that the catalyst for the president's firing of comey was comey's, open quote, unwillingness to publicly state that the president was not personally under investigation. >> i'm not going to delve more into the details of what happened. if it's in the report, then i support it because it's already been reviewed and appropriately appears in the report. >> and that's page 75, volume two. in fact, the very next day, the president told the russian foreign minister, open quote, i just fired the head of the fbi. he was crazy, a real nut job. i face great pressure becaus...