look at the document. . did you have a do you have a reaction to why there might not have been, in a sense, a protest to what was going to be false testimony that was going to be provided? no, sir, because the goal is to stay on message. just limit the relationship whatsoever with russia. it was short, there s no russian contacts and no russian collusion and no russian deals. that s the message. that s the same message that existed well before my need to come and testify. so it s an example of where this idea, this mentality of you toe the line whatever the storyline or the narrative of the day or the month or the year is going to be. you toe that line whether it results in false testimony or
incorrigible liar and that you are lying here today. i can t think of anything you have to gain at this point from lying. i mean, they talk about book deals and other things that you want to do, but i see a lot more that you could lose by telling the truth today given the threats and other things that have been made against you and your family. so that s how i m interpreting it and of course, you brought out do you means with you, as well, to bolster the credibility of your testimony. i did want to go back to an earlier line of questioning regarding the preparation of your testimony before you came before the intelligence committee. you talked about a meeting at the white house where the testimony was being reviewed, and i think you said that it was
during the call? i don t recall for this one, no, sir. is there anyone else the committee should talk to about the president s knowledge of the wic wikileaks e-mail dump? when he called rhona craft yelled out to mr. trump, roger is on line 1 which is regular practice. that s his assistant? yes. during the news conference on july 27, 2016, then-candidate trump publicly appealed to russia to hack hillary clinton s e-mails and make them public. he stated and i quote, russia, if you re listening, i hope you re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. now going back to mr. stone s phone call to the president, do you recall if mr. trump had knowledge of the wikileaks dump at the time of his direct appeal to russia? i am not. but the call with mr. stone, you believe, was before.
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