II.C. The President's Reaction to Public Confirmation of the FBI's Russia Investigation (Mueller Report)
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Dan Williams
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🗓️ 4 May 2019
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Summary
Part 3 of 12 from Section II. Factual Results of the Obstruction Investigation. This subsection of Volume 2, pages 48-62, documents the days following the confirmation of the FBI's investigation into Russian interference and the President's reaction and the importance he placed on getting the word out that he wasn't personally under investigation.
The President's Reaction to Public Confirmation of the FBI's Russia Investigation (0:10)
- Attorney General Sessions Recuses From the Russia Investigation (1:02)
- FBI Director Comey Publicly Confirms the Existence of the Russia Investigation in Testimony Before HPSCI (6:26)
- The President Asks Intelligence Community Leaders to Make Public Statements that he had No Connection to Russia (11:43)
- The President Asks Comey to "Lift the Cloud" Created by the Russia Investigation (16:42)
Analysis (20:15)
- Obstructive act (20:28)
- Nexus to a proceeding (21:50)
- Intent (22:26)
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| 0:35.5 | Welcome to the Mueller Report audio. |
| 0:38.8 | Section 2C. |
| 0:40.8 | The President's reaction to public confirmation of the FBI's Russia investigation. |
| 0:46.8 | Overview |
| 0:47.3 | In early March 2017, the President learned that Sessions was considering recusing from the Russia investigation and tried to |
| 0:55.4 | prevent the recusal. After Sessions announced his recusal on March 2, the president expressed |
| 1:01.1 | anger at Sessions for the decision, and then privately asked Sessions to unrecuse. On March 20, |
| 1:08.4 | 2017, Komi publicly disclosed the existence of the FBI's Russia investigation. |
| 1:14.3 | In the days that followed, the president contacted Comey and other intelligence agency leaders |
| 1:19.5 | and asked them to push back publicly on the suggestion that the president had any connection |
| 1:24.1 | to the Russian election interference effort in order to lift the cloud of the ongoing investigation. |
| 1:30.5 | Evidence. Subsection 1. Attorney General Sessions recuses from the Russia investigation. |
| 1:37.5 | In late February 2017, the Department of Justice began an internal analysis of whether Sessions should recuse from the Russia investigation based on his role in the 2016 Trump campaign. |
| 1:49.7 | On March 1, 2017, the press reported that, in his January confirmation hearing to become Attorney General, Senator Sessions had not disclosed two meetings he had with Russian Ambassador Kisliak before the presidential election, |
| 2:03.3 | leading to congressional calls for sessions to recuse or for a special counsel to investigate Russia's interference in the presidential election. |
| 2:11.4 | Also on March 1, the president called Comey and said he wanted to check in and see how Comey was doing. |
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