johnforbes wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 8:18 am
But Mueller admitted that NOTHING impeded his investigation, and he got tremendous cooperation from the W House.
COHEN: Wasn't Attorney General Sessions following the rules and professional advice of the Department of Justice Ethics folks when he recused himself from the investigation?
MUELLER: Yes.
COHEN: And yet, the president repeatedly expressed his displeasure at Sessions' decision to follow those ethics rules, to recuse himself from oversight of that investigation. Is that not correct?
MUELLER: That's accurate, based on what is written in the report.
COHEN: And the president's reaction to the recusal, as noted in the report, Mr. Bannon recalled that the president was mad, as mad as Bannon had ever seen him, and he screamed at McGahn about how weak Sessions was. Do you recall that from the report?
MUELLER: That's in the report, yes.
COHEN:Despite knowing that Attorney General Sessions was supposed to be in -- was not supposed to be involved in the investigation, the president still tried to get the attorney general to un-recuse himself after you were appointed special counsel. Is that correct?
MUELLER: Yes.
COHEN: In fact, your investigation found that at some point after your appointment, quote, "the president called Sessions at his home and asked if he would un-recuse himself." Is that not true?
MUELLER: It's true.
COHEN: Now, that wasn't the first time the president had asked Sessions to un-recuse himself, was it?
MUELLER: I know there were at least two occasions.
COHEN: And one of them was with Flynn, and one of them was when Sessions and McGahn flew to Mar-a-Lago to meet with the president. Sessions recalled that the president pulled him aside to speak alone and suggested he should do this un-recusal act, correct?
MUELLER: Correct.