Page 22 - Steele Report News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Votes in midwestern states months before that meeting manafort had caused internal data to be shared and the sharing continued for some period of time after their august meeting, isn't that correct? >> accurate. >> your investigation found that manafort briefed the russians on the state of the trump campaign and manafort's plan to win the election and that was the campaign's message. internal polling data and discussion of battleground states which manafort identified as michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, and minnesota, isn't that correct? >> that's correct. >> did your investigation who reque...

>> the gentleman lady from alabama. >> you just said in response to two different lines of questioning that you would refer as it relates to this firing discussion that i would refer you to the report and the way it was characterized in the report. importantly, the president never said fire mueller or in the investigation. one doesn't necessitate the other. mcgahn in fact did not resign he stuck around for a year and a half. on march 24 barr said he received the special counsel's report and not until april 18th that the attorney general released the report to congress and the public. when you ...

That on -- page 85, volume 2, that on saturday, june 17th, 2017, the president called mcgahn at home to have the special counsel removed. now, did the president call don mcgahn more than once that day? >> well, -- >> i think it was two calls. on page 85 of your report you wrote, quote, on the first call, mcgahn recalled that the president said something like quote you've got to do this. you have to call rod, correct? >> correct. >> your investigation and report found that don mcgahn was perturbed, to use your words, by the president's request to call rod rosenstein to fire him, isn't that corr...

Them? >> whatever was said will appear in the report. >> it is. it says on page 87 priebus recalled that mcgahn said that the president asked him to do crazy expletive. in other words, crazy stuff. the white house counsel thought that the president's request was completely out of bounds. he said the president asked him to do something crazy. it was wrong. and he was prepared to resign over it. now, these are extraordinarily troubling events but you found white house counsel mcgahn to be a credible witness, isn't that correct? >> correct. >> director mueller, the most important question i have ...

Discussion after what happened after the production of our report. >> had the attorney general asked you provide a redacted version of the report? >> we worked on redacted versions together. >> did he ask you for a version with the grand jury material was separated? >> not going to get into details. >> is it your belief an unredacted version of the report could be released to congress on the public. >> that's not within my purview. >> rule 6e material. why didn't you take a similar action so congress could view this material? >> we had a process that we were operating on with the attorney gene...