Mueller: I know there were at least two occasions.

WATCH: What is happening now in the 2020 election? And Carrie Johnson, she is the Justice Department correspondent for NPR. When interviewed by the special counsel, however, Sanders admitted that was not the case. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn.: 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. And the special counsel's report says they amped up after the president himself realized he was under investigation. Read Nov 06 He said that the matters they were investigating were of paramount importance, and that, when a subject of an investigation obstructs it or lies to an investigator, that that strikes at the heart of the government's effort to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable. "They would amount to obstructive acts only if the President, by taking these actions, sought to withhold information from or mislead congressional investigators or the Special Counsel.". Louie Gohmert, R-Texas: Director Mueller, I'd like to get back to your findings covering June of 2017.

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." They couldn't get to people like Donald Trump Jr.

: OK. Let's look at an event described on page 18 of Volume 2 of your report. Robert Mueller: I think what we have in our report reflects it was about that length. Why the AP has not declared a winner in Pennsylvania, WATCH: Georgia secretary of state says 61,000 ballots are waiting to be counted. According to Deputy Campaign Manager Rick Gates, in the summer of 2016, he and Candidate Trump were on the way to the airport shortly after WikiLeaks released its first set of stolen e-mails. Judge Jeanine gets into heated argument with Juan over Goya boycott - … 7. Is that right?

And regarding the second call, you wrote, and I quote, "McGahn recalled that the President was more direct, saying something like call Rod, tell Rod that Mueller has conflicts and can't be Special -- can't be the Special Counsel. Here's the relevant line in the report: "The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President's corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law. 6. Mueller: If it's from the report, it is correct. We dive back into some of the key points now with John Carlin. You have been following this investigation for the last few years. Correct? Mueller: Also true in the basis for — and part of the basis for that plea that he entered (ph) for lying to this entity.

She meets in the Trump Tower. Bass: Did the president's personal lawyer do something the following day in responses to that news report?

Carrie Johnson with NPR, covering the Justice Department, John Carlin, thank you both. And, number two, I think he carefully placed in this report the facts that match up with his report. And you have the special counsel saying, we were not able to prove a broader conspiracy. Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Gates recalled that the meeting was attended by Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Paul Manafort, Hope Hicks, and, joining late, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.".

And that's what I want to come back to, I mean, on the obstruction question. Don McGahn was one of the central witnesses in this investigation. Now, on page 77 of Volume 2, your report also stated, quote, "In addition some witnesses said that Trump privately sought information about future WikiLeaks releases," end quote. But there may come a time where he becomes an important witness in any kind of congressional inquiry moving forward.

Pressed by reporters to support this assertion, Sanders said the White House had heard from "countless members of the FBI.".

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So you get the sense that they didn't get everything they wanted to know. Mueller's report concludes that it "did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in the election interference activities.".

Washington (CNN)The Justice Department released the redacted version of the report from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Investigators could not prove Trump Jr. or the other campaign officials at the meeting "willfully" violated the law. And then they found numerous individuals who didn't tell them the truth about what was occurring. And, finally, Carrie, as we hear the reports from Congress that Democrats are not there yet in terms of launching an impeachment inquiry, but there's more and more of a drumbeat in that direction, what is the Justice Department's posture about that? "The President told Hicks to say only that Trump Jr. took a brief meeting and it was about Russian adoption," the report reads. We know he met with the special counsel team for 30 hours or more. Scanlon: Now, in Appendix C, where the president did answer some written questions, he said, quote, "I do not recall discussing WikiLeaks with him, nor do I recall being aware of Mr. Stone having discussed WikiLeaks with individuals associated with my campaign," end quote. Subscribe to ‘Here's the Deal,’ our politics newsletter.

With Mueller testifying on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, here are the most important takeaways from Mueller's report — in his own words. Special counsel Robert Mueller made it clear in his Wednesday statement that he wants his team’s lengthy report to speak for itself. That is clearly laying out, there's a nexus.

The special counsel provides a constitutional justification for its own investigation, but also points out that Congress can also apply obstruction laws in investigating and impeaching a sitting president. Isn't that correct? And then in your report you wrote about multiple calls from the president to White House counsel Don McGahn.

"Michael Flynn -- who would later serve as national security adviser in the Trump Administration -- recalled that Trump made the request repeatedly, and Flynn subsequently contacted multiple people in an effort to obtain the emails," the report says. 4. Isn't that correct? Furthermore, Mueller makes it clear his investigators would have said there was no obstruction if they could demonstrate it: "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.". The other Trump officials at the meeting were Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and campaign chair Paul Manafort, who agreed to meet with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. And you said in your report on page 90 of Volume 2, and I quote, "news of the obstruction investigation prompted the President to call McGahn and seek to have the Special Counsel removed," close quote. Mr Mueller made that clear.

Was it corrupt? But he used his short time, nine minutes or so, in front of the cameras and the eyes of the world, to make a few key points. Key Moments From Mueller’s Capitol Hill Testimony. Robert Mueller: It's in the report as stated. Robert Mueller made clear that he wants the report to speak for itself. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. They tried to shut the investigation down. This is the first time we have heard publicly from the special counsel. Trump privately and repeatedly "asked individuals affiliated with his campaign to find the deleted Clinton emails," the report says. Justice Alito orders Pennsylvania officials to separate ballots that arrived after Election Day. Is that not true?

And this is important in terms of the statement that Mr. Mueller made today. He doesn't want to testify to Congress. "The Office ultimately concluded that, even if the principal legal questions were resolved favorably to the government, a prosecution would encounter difficulties proving that Campaign officials or individuals connected to the Campaign willfully violated the law.".

Trump directed McGahn to call Rosenstein and tell him Mueller "had conflicts of interest and must be removed.". Mueller: I'd refer you to the coverage of this in the report. You know, he used his words carefully.

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Jiachuan Wu is a national interactive journalist for NBC News.

RELATED: Mueller declined to prosecute Donald Trump Jr. appointed Robert Mueller to investigate Russian interference. Even though these efforts at obstruction were not successful, they were very serious. The party line in this case was that the deal ended in January 2016, in other words they were saying that the deal ended in January 2016 before the Republican primaries. That's what we have in the report with regard to that particular issue. He thought carefully about every word that was in this statement today. It's possible that parts of the House could decide to try to vote — the full House could try to vote the attorney general in contempt of the House. Is that correct? Doug Collins, R-Ga.: Is it true the evidence gathered during your investigation did not establish that the president was involved in the underlying crime related to Russian election interference as stated in Volume 1, page 7? Anna Brand is a senior editor for news projects at NBC News and oversees the Data Graphics team. As you said, it is his testimony.

There was a bombshell article that reported that the president of the United States was personally under investigation for obstruction of justice. Shields and Brooks on election results, national divisions, Read The attorney general, Bill Barr, has been in conflict with some Democrats, in the House in particular. Please check your inbox to confirm. Here's what those sections of the report say. Sessions recalled that the president pulled him aside to speak alone and suggested he should do this un-recusal act, correct? Two, that there's a nexus. McGahn, for now, at the instruction of the White House and his own view, is that he's not going to testify. That's where things stand right now. "[T]he investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts...". The Justice Department released the redacted version of the report from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Why was the person trying to block your investigation?

Mueller: I will leave the answer to our report. Do you recall that from the report?

Carrie, we have gone back and looked at the Mueller report at a couple of points.

Thank you. And, John Carlin, as somebody who has worked very closely with Robert Mueller in years past, what did you make of how he came across today? And just quickly, Carrie, we don't have time to read — read all of these sections that we picked out from the report. ... (R-WI) tried to score points on why Mueller investigated Trump in the first place if he was never going to indict the President. So, I encourage people to listen to the full statement. We've highlighted some of those questions and the parts of his report the former special counsel was referring to. And then, John Carlin, coming back to the Russia — the investigation — the part of this that started the whole investigation in the first place, was there any collusion, cooperation, conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians? Read He doesn't name Congress, but that's Congress.