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John Dowd, former attorney to President Trump:
It was Mueller's suggestion that we ought to engage and that we ought to work together. We said fine, get us the document list and ask for your witnesses. Ty Cobb and Jay and I provided them. He said he wouldn't let any grass grow. In every meeting and communication we had, we stressed how important it was to note that his inquiry was a great burden on the president and interfered with the president's ability to lead this country particularly in foreign affairs. Mueller said he took that very seriously. On and on he gave us his word that he would do it. Late last year, when he had completed the 37 witnesses, I asked him: did you have any problem with those witnesses? They were all well-represented, all well-prepared. He said no. Did anyone lie to you? No. Documents: we gave you 1.4 million, but more importantly we gave you the most intimate notes of the communications and deliberations of the president. No president in history has ever done anything like that. Are we missing anything? Are there any missing documents? No. Are you satisfied with everything you've got? Yes. What's the president's exposure? [Mueller responded:] The president's exposure is as a witness/subject. So he's not a target, correct? Correct. So he's got no exposure. At that point we said, well why don't we just decline? Mueller said well, we'd like to get back to you on that, but we think we need to talk to the president. I raised the **** issue which we had briefed thoroughly. Jay's people did a magnificent job on the briefing on all of those issues. I asked, what do you not know that we haven't given you, that only the president knows? Mueller could never answer that question, Sean. That's when I saw a stall going on, and I just lost complete faith in [the Mueller probe]. We had shaken hands. He's the one that said, "John, we'll engage." We said, we're not going to raise conflicts. We're not going to raise the legality of the order. We're not going to fool with all this nonsense. Let's get the job done. This president wants the job done. By the way, this president gets the credit. He's the one that said, give it to him.
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