724 few people had access to it and said “it will never get out.” Corallo took contemporaneous notes of the call that say: “Also mention existence of doc. 725 Hope says ‘only a few people have it. It will never get out.”’ Hicks later told investigators that she had no memory of making that comment and had always believed the emails would eventually be leaked, but she might have been channeling the President on the phone call because it was clear to her throughout her conversations with the President that he did not think the emails would 726 leak. On July 11, 2017, Trump Jr. posted redacted images of the emails setting up the June 9 meeting on Twitter; the New York Times reported that he did so “[a]fter being told that The Times was about to publish the content of the 727 emails.” Later that day, the media reported that the President had been personally involved in preparing Trump Jr.’s initial statement to the New York Times that had claimed the meeting “primarily” concerned “a program about the 728 adoption of Russian children.” Over the next several days, the President’s personal counsel repeatedly and inaccurately denied that the President played 729 any role in drafting Trump Jr.’s statement. After consulting with the President on the issue, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told the media that the President “certainly didn’t dictate” the statement, but that “he 730 weighed in, offered suggestions like any father would do.” Several months later, the President’s personal counsel stated in a private communication to the Special Counsel’s Office that “the President dictated a short but accurate response to the New York Times article on behalf of his son, Donald Trump, 731 Jr.” The President later told the press that it was “irrelevant” whether he dictated the statement and said, “It’s a statement to the New York Times. . . . 732 That’s not a statement to a high tribunal of judges.” On July 12, 2017, the Special Counsel’s Office Grand Jury█ Trump Jr. Grand Jury█ related to the June 9 meeting and those who attended the June 9 733 meeting. On July 19, 2017, the President had his follow-up meeting with Lewandowski and then met with reporters for the New York Times. In addition to criticizing Sessions in his Times interview, the President addressed the June 9, 2016 meeting and said he “didn’t know anything about the meeting” at the