II.H. The President's Further Efforts to Have the Attorney General Take Over the Investigation (Mueller Report)
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🗓️ 4 May 2019
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Summary
Part 8 of 12 from Section II. Factual Results of the Obstruction Investigation. This subsection of Volume 2, pages 107-113, provides additional evidence regarding the President's efforts to have Jeff Sessions unrecuse and take over the Russia investigation.
The President's Further Efforts to Have the Attorney General Take Over the Investigation (0:08)
- The President Again Seeks to Have Sessions Reverse his Recusal (0:31)
- Additional Efforts to Have Sessions Unrecuse or Direct Investigations Covered by his Recusal (3:16)
Analysis (9:00)
- Obstructive act (9:14)
- Nexus to a proceeding (10:51)
- Intent (11:27)
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| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the Mueller Report audio. |
| 0:23.4 | Section 2H. |
| 0:25.1 | The President's further efforts to have the Attorney General take over the investigation. |
| 0:30.4 | Overview. |
| 0:31.6 | From summer 2017 through 2018, the President attempted to have Attorney General Sessions reverse his recusal, |
| 0:39.4 | take control of the special counsel's investigation, and order an investigation of Hillary Clinton. |
| 0:45.4 | Evidence |
| 0:45.9 | Subsection 1. The president again seeks to have Sessions reverse his recusal. |
| 0:52.6 | After returning Sessions' resignation letter at the end of May |
| 0:55.8 | 2017, but before the President's July 19, 2017 New York Times interview, in which he publicly |
| 1:02.0 | criticized Sessions for recusing from the Russia investigation, the President took additional |
| 1:06.4 | steps to have Sessions reverse his recusal. In particular, at some point after the May 17, 2017 appointment of the special counsel, Sessions recalled, the president called him at home and asked if Sessions would unrecuse himself. |
| 1:19.6 | According to Sessions, the president asked him to reverse his recusal so that Sessions could direct the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute Hillary Clinton. |
| 1:28.6 | And the gist of the conversation was that the president wanted Sessions to unrecuse from all of it, |
| 1:33.8 | including the special counsel's Russia investigation. |
| 1:36.7 | Sessions listened but did not respond, and he did not reverse his recusal or order an investigation of Clinton. |
| 1:43.5 | In early July 2017, the president asked |
| 1:46.9 | staff secretary Rob Porter what he thought of Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand. |
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