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York times" reported that, quote, the president had ordered mcgahn to have the department of justice fire you. is that correct? >> correct. >> and that story related to the events you already testified about here today, the president's calls to mcgahn to have you removed, correct? >> correct. >> after the news broke, did the president go on tv and deny the story? >> do not know. >> in fact, the president said, quote, fake news, folks, fake news, a typical "new york times" fake story, end quote, correct? >> correct. >> but your investigation actually found substantial evidence that mcgahn was o...

Supposed to be the attorney general of the united states of america or the con sig larry for the president. >> united states of america. >> the president sought to convince sessions to unrecuse himself so the investigation -- >> i rely on the report. >> restricted the scope of your investigation. >> i'm not going to speculate. if he took over or was attorney general he would have greater latitude in his actions that would enable him to do things that otherwise he could not. >> page 113 you said the president believed an unrecused attorney general would play a protective role and shield the pre...

The battleground states. so while the russians were buying ads and creating propaganda to influence the outcome of the election, they were armed with inside information that they had stolen through hacking from the dnc and that they had been given by the trump campaign chairman mr. manafort. my colleagues will probe the efforts undertaken to keep this information from becoming public, but i think it is important for the american people to understand the gravity of the underlying problem that your report uncovered. with that, mr. chairman, i would yield back. >> general lady. >> good morning, d...

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

>> well, i can't get into it. >> was this letter written and leaked for the express purpose of attempting to change the narrative about the conclusions of your report and was anything in attorney general barr's letter referred to as principal conclusions -- >> the time for -- >> he may answer the question. >> may answer the question. >> was anything in barr's letter dated march 24th inaccurate? ? a i am not going to get into that. >> we're focusing on five obstruction episodes today. i would like to ask you about the second of those five obstruction episodes. it is in the section of your repor...