Thank you. Volume 2, page 76, correct . Ill leave the answer to our report. So thats a yes . Is it true your investigation did not establish that any members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in election interference activity, volume 1, page 2. Volume 1, page 73 . Yes. Thank you. Although your Report States collusion is not a specific offense and you said that this morning or a term of our in federal criminal law and experience is, in the colloquial context are collusion and experience essentially synonymous terms. Youre going to have to row peat that for me. Collusion is not a specific offense or a term of art in federal criminal law. Conspiracy is. In the colloquial context, collusion and conspiracy are essentially synonymous terms, correct . No. If no on page 180 of volume 1 of your report you wrote collusion is largely synonymous of conspiracy and that crime is set forth in the general conspiracy statute. You said at your May 29th Press Conf
report that on page 85, volume 2 on saturday june 17, 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 about, quote, you ve got to do this, you ve got to call rod, correct? yes. and your investigation found that don mcgan was perturbed to use your words by the president s request to call rod ros ros rosenstein to fire him, isn t that correct? there was a continuous involvement of don mcgahn in
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 correct? there was a continuous colloquy, continuous involvement of don mcgahn
fury and frustration with the russia investigation. why did you take so long? mcgahn became mueller s star witness talking for 30 hours and earning 157 citations in the report, more than any other witness. mcgahn is a central witness and he s telling mueller throughout hours of testimony that he was pushed to the edge to try to help not only defend president trump, but manage the mueller investigation and to wipe the tracks clean whenever there was conduct that was questionable. in volume two on page 85, mueller drops a bomb shell. the president tried to get the special counsel fired. the kind of brazen act that undid richard nixon s presidency. don mcgahn testified after trump learned he was under investigation for obstruction, he called mcgahn at home on saturday, june 17th, and told him mueller has to go. adding, call me back when you do
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.