Investigation that july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack Hillary Clintons email, something for the first time they did five hours later, correct . Correct. And you also found that on august 2nd, mr. Manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence. Mr. Kilimnik gave him internal Campaign Strategy aware that russia was intending to do a misinformation social media campaign. Correct . Not certain of the time. But the fact that that meeting. The meeting took place is accurate. And your investigation as i understand it, also found that in late summer of 2016, the Trump Campaign in fact devised its strategy and messaging around wiki leaks releases of materials that were stolen from the Democratic National committee, correct is it. Is that from the report . Yes, its according to mr. Gates. Yes. Thank you. You also talked earlier about the finding in your investigation that in september and october of 2016, donald trump jr. Had email communications with wiki leaks now ind
about nine months. and you have some hard language for what you thought of those responses. what did you think of those responses, mr. mueller? certainly not as useful as the interview would be. you pointed out and by my count there were more than 30 times where the president said he didn t recall, he didn t remember, no independent correction, no current recollection. i take it by your answer it wasn t as helpful, that s why you used words like incomplete, imprecise, inadequate. is that a fair summary of what you thought of those answers. that is a fair summary. i presume that comes from the report. the president didn t ever claim the 5th amendment, did he? i m not going to talk to that. from what i can tell, sir, at one point it was vital and another another point it wasn t vital. my question to you is, why did it stop being vital. one is that someone told you couldn t do it. but no one told you couldn t subpoena the president, right?
have exposed that, could they not? yes. the presidential candidate was doing business in russia, and saying he wasn t, russians could expose that too, could they not? i leave that to you. well, let s look at dmitri pescov, someone the trump administration was in contact with to make that deal happen. michael cohen had a long conversation on the 230e7b with someone from his office. presumably the russians could record that conversation, could they not? yes. if candidate trump was saying, i have no dealing with the russians but the russians had a tape recording, they could reveal that, correct? yes. that s the stuff of counter intelligence nightmares, is it not? it has to do with the strong counter intelligence and counter intelligence entity. it does indeed. when this was revealed that
director mueller, thank you again for being here today. and before i adjourn, i would like to excuse you and mr. zebley. everyone else please remain seated. so there it is, he showed up this morning at the house judiciary committee hearing around 8:30 a.m. eastern. now, seven hours later wraps up the second round of questioning for the house intelligence. with a break for lunch and a couple other breaks. he basically stuck to his report, 448 pages, he tried not to deviate, he didn t deviate at all, and in the process, jake, he refused to answer a lot of questions, which was his goal today. he wasn t going to get into other issues, even though republicans and democrats repeatedly asked. there were a few characterizations that may have been a little bit outside the scope of the report, you re right, he refused to answer questions again, deferred answers. there was one exchange with