became aware of emails exchanged during the campaign arranging a meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and a Russian 663 attorney. As described in Volume I, Section IV.A.5, supra, the emails stated that the “Crown [P]rosecutor of Russia” had offered “to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia” as part of “Russia and its government’s 664 support for Mr. Trump.” Trump Jr. responded, “[I]f it’s what you say I love 665 it,” and he, Kushner, and Manafort met with the Russian attorney and several 666 other Russian individuals at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016. At the meeting, the Russian attorney claimed that funds derived from illegal activities in Russia were provided to Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, and the Russian attorney then spoke about the Magnitsky Act, a 2012 U.S. statute that imposed financial and travel sanctions on Russian officials and that had resulted in a retaliatory ban 667 in Russia on U.S. adoptions of Russian children. According to written answers submitted by the President in response to questions from this Office, the President had no recollection of learning of the meeting or the emails setting it up at the time the meeting occurred or at any 668 other time before the election. The Trump Campaign had previously received a document request from SSCI that called for the production of various information, including, “[a] list and a description of all meetings” between any “individual affiliated with the Trump campaign” and “any individual formally or informally affiliated with the Russian government or Russian business interests which took place between 669 June 16, 2015, and 12 pm on January 20, 2017,” and associated records. Trump Organization attorneys became aware of the June 9 meeting no later than the first week of June 2017, when they began interviewing the meeting participants, and the Trump Organization attorneys provided the emails setting 670 up the meeting to the President’s personal counsel. Mark Corallo, who had been hired as a spokesman for the President’s personal legal team, recalled that 671 he learned about the June 9 meeting around June 21 or 22, 2017. Priebus recalled learning about the June 9 meeting from Fox News host Sean Hannity in 672 late June 2017. Priebus notified one of the President’s personal attorneys, 673 who told Priebus he was already working on it. By late June, several advisors

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