>> THANK YOU, WE’LL PROCEED UNDER THE FIVE MINUTES RULE OF
QUESTION.
QUESTION. >> THE PRESIDENT REPEATEDLY
CLAIM YOUR REPORT FOUND OF NO
OBSTRUCTION AND COMPLETE
EXONERATED HIM.
EXONERATED HIM. THAT’S NOT WHAT YOUR REPORT
SAYS, IS IT?
>> KREKCORRECT.
>> KREKCORRECT. THAT’S NOT WHAT THE REPORT SAYS.
>> VOLUME TWO ON THE SCREEN, YOU
WROTE "IF WE HAD CONFIDENCE
AFTER A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION
OF THE FACTS THAT THE PRESIDENT
CLEARLY DID NOT COMMIT
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, WE WOULD
SO STATE, BASED ON THE FACTS WE
ARE UNABLE TO READ THAT
JUDGMENT," DOES THAT SAY THERE
IS NO OBSTRUCTION?
>> NO.
>> NO. >> YOU ARE UNABLE TO CONCLUDE
THE PRESIDENT DID NOT COMMIT
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, IS THAT
CORRECT?
CORRECT? >> AT THE OUT SET DETERMINED
THAT WE -- WHEN IT CAME TO THE
PRESIDENT’S CULPABILITY WE
NEEDED TO GO FORWARD ONLY AFTER
TAKING TO ACCOUNT OF THE OLC
OPINION THAT INDICATED THAT THE
PRESIDENT, A SITTING PRESIDENT
CAN’T BE INDICTED.
>> SO THE REPORT DID NOT
CONCLUDE THAT HE DID NOT COMMIT
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
>> THAT’S CORRECT.
>> WHAT ABOUT TOTAL EXONERATION,
DID YOU ACTUALLY TOTALLY
EXONERATED THE PRESIDENT?
>> NO.
>> NO. YOUR REPORT STATES THAT IT DID
NOT EXONERATE THE PRESIDENT.
>> IT DOES.
>> YOUR INVESTIGATION ACTUALLY
FOUND QUOTE "MULTIPLE ACTS BY
THE PRESIDENT THAT WERE CAPABLE
OF EXERTING LAW ENFORCEMENT
INVESTIGATION INCLUDING THE
RUSSIA INTERFERENCE," IS THAT
CORRECT IN
CORRECT IN CORRECT?
CORRECT? >> CORRECT.
>> CORRECT. >> CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT THAT
FINDINGS MEAN SO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND IT?
>> THE FINDING INDICATES THAT
THE PRESIDENT WAS NOT EXCALPATED
FOR THE ACTS THAT HE COMMITTED.
>> YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT
INCIDENTS WHERE THE PRESIDENT
USED HIS OFFICIAL POWER TO EXERT
UNDO INFLUENCES OVER YOUR
INVESTIGATION, IS THAT RIGHT?
>> THAT’S CORRECT.
>> ON PAGE 7, VOLUME TWO, YOU
WROTE "THE PRESIDENT BECAME
AWARE THAT HIS OWN CONDUCT WAS
BEING INVESTIGATED IN AN
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE INQUIRY,
THE PRESIDENT ENGAGED IN -- AND
EFFORTS IN BOTH PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE TO ENCOURAGE WITNESSES
NOT TO COOPERATE WITH THE
INVESTIGATION," SO PRESIDENT
TRUMP EFFORT TO EXERT UNDOING
UNDOING -- AFTER HE’S AWARE THAT
HE’S BEING INVESTIGATED?
>> I STICK WITH THE LANGUAGE
THAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU.
>> WHICH IS?
>> ON PAGE 7, VOLUME 2.
>> IS IT CORRECT THAT UCONN
COLLUDED
COLLUDED YOU CONCLUDED THAT --PS.
>> CAN YOU REPETE THE QUESTION?
>> IS IT CORRECT THAT YOU
YOU CONCLUDED, IF THE PRESIDENT
COMMITTED THE CRIME, YOU COULD
NOT STATE THAT IN YOUR REPORT
HERE TODAY?
HERE TODAY? >> I WOULD SAY -- THE STATEMENT
WOULD BE YOU WOULD NOT INDICT
BECAUSE UNDER OLC OPINION, A
SITTING PRESIDENT CAN’T BE
INDICTED.
INDICTED. >> YOU COULD NOT STATE THAT