told him to have you removed ? . and what was the question, sir, if i might? let me go to the next one. the president criticized mcgahn for telling your office about the june 17th, 2017 events when he told mcgahn to have you removed, correct? correct. in other words, the president was criticizing his white house counsel for telling law enforcement officials what he believed to be the truth. i, again, go back to the text of the report. well, let me go a little bit further. would it have been a crime if mr. mcgahn had lied to you about the president ordering him to fire you? i don t want to speculate. okay. is it true that you charged multiple people associated with the president for lying to you during your investigation? that is accurate. the president also complained that his staff were taking notes
sir? let me go to the next one. the president quote criticized mcgahn for telling your office about the june 17th, 2017 events when he told mcgahn to have you removed, correct? correct. in other words, the president was criticizing his white house counsel for telling law enforcement officials what he believed to be the truth. again go back to the text of the report. well, let me go a little bit further. would it have been a crime if mr. mcgahn had lied to you about the president ordering him to fire you? i don t want to speculate. okay. is it true that you charged multiple people associated with the president for lying to you during your investigation? that is accurate. the president also complained that his staff were taking notes during the meeting about firing mcgahn, is that
the special counsel found mr. mcgahn to be, quote, a credible witness with no motive to lie or exaggerate given the position he held in the white house, close quote. that s from the mueller report. the special counsel also found the following quote, substantial evidence indicates that by june 17th, 2017, the president knew his conduct was under investigation by a federal prosecutor who could present any evidence of federal crimes to a grand jury. substantial evidence indicates that the president s attempts to remove the special counsel were linked to the special counsel s oversight of investigations that involved the president s conduct. and most immediately, to reports that the president was being investigated for potential obstruction of justice. substantial evidence indicates that these were all quotes from the report, substantial evidence indicates that in repeatedly urging mcgahn to dispute that he was ordered to have the special
contact with mr. sessions on the matter. days later, the president did exactly the opposite. he summoned mr. mcgahn and mr. sessions to mar-a-lago, where the president again, quote, expressed his anger, unquote. he said he wanted mr. sessions to act as his fixer. he said he wanted mr. sessions to undo his recusal and limit the scope of the investigation. but mr. sessions, too, refused the president s orders. on june 17th, 2017, the president took his displeasure a step further. he called mr. mcgahn at home and directed him to order rod rosenstein to fire robert mueller. mueller has to go, the president barked. call me back when you do it. once again, mr. mcgahn refused. this time, mr. mcgahn felt the president s behavior was so inappropriate that he said he would rather resign than trigger a constitutional crisis.
uncuu unrecuse himself and advised the president not to have any contact with mr. sessions on the matter. days later, the president did exactly the opposite. he summoned mr. mcgahn and mr. sessions to mar-a-lago where the president, again, expressed his anger, unquote. he said he wanted mr. sessions to act as his fixer. he said he wanted mr. sessions to undo his recusal and to limit the scope of the investigation. but mr. sessions, too, refused the president s orders. on june 17th, 2017, the president took his displeasure a step further. he called mr. mcgahn at home and directed him to order rod rosenstein to fire robert mueller. mueller has to go, the president barked, call me back when you do it. once again, mr. mcgahn refused. this time mr. mcgahn felt the president s behavior was so inappropriate that he said he would rather resign than trigger