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Weve got to look at for eight months e were doing this so i think following procedures is something you have to look at time is expired if he wishes. He doesnt wish. Good morning. The president who had no role in the white house asked you to deliver that message to Attorney General Sessions the president could have picked up the phone himself at any time and called the Attorney General. The president also had a full staff of executive employees right down the hall. So this made me wonder if the president thought what he was doing was legal why didnt he just pick up the phone and call the Attor...

Recognized >> thank you, mr. chair. it's been made clear here you're not an employee and you admitted you have no w2, no card, nothing. you were not an employee and you r were a policeman at one time, so you know something about the law and about following the law. didn't you think it was a little strange the president would sit down with you one-on-one and ask you to do something that you knew was against law did that strike you as strange >> i disagree with the premise of your question >> you weren't a policeman >> i didn't this president asked me to go anything illegal. >> you didn't think ...

Correct? >> if that's what's in the report >> you told sessions you wanted to meet in person rather than on the phone. you could have just read the message from the president over the phone, but you knew it would make it harder to persuade sessions so you wanted to meet with him in person correct? >> if that's what the report states, yes >> so the tournl works at the department of justice, but you told the special counsel you didn't want to meet in the department of justice because you knew if new you went into a public building, there's a public log of the visit and you specifically told the ...

Contacts, which i don't recall having >> thank you i yield back gentleman yields back. the gentleman from florida >> thank you, mr. chairman i just want to follow up with mr. johnson. the mueller report says one months later, a month after your june 19th meeting after you return ed from vacation, the president met again followed up on the request to have sessions limit the scope of the russia investigation. just to clarify that he did do that but i want to go back to the meeting on june 119th. the president asked you to write down word for word the script he wants the attorney general of the u...

He dick katated to you a messag give sessions. have you been the secretary for the president. >> many times. >> oh, we got your qualifications now l you were a secretary could it, ask you outside of white house channels and that's what mueller wrote, this was outside of white house channels. could have been he asked you to get the message to sessions because he thought you would do whatever he asked even if it was illegal or immoral, just like your former boss who said you were an ifrmentor. "usa today" said your background is largely as a trump guy, not as much a strategist, not a campaign ma...