612 understood what the President wanted Sessions to do. Lewandowski wanted to pass the message to Sessions in person rather than 613 over the phone. He did not want to meet at the Department of Justice because he did not want a public log of his visit and did not want Sessions to have an advantage over him by meeting on what Lewandowski described as Sessions’s 614 turf. Lewandowski called Sessions and arranged a meeting for the following evening at Lewandowski’s office, but Sessions had to cancel due to a last minute 615 conflict. Shortly thereafter, Lewandowski left Washington, D.C., without having had an opportunity to meet with Sessions to convey the President’s 616 message. Lewandowski stored the notes in a safe at his home, which he 617 stated was his standard procedure with sensitive items. 2. The President Follows Up with Lewandowski Following his June meeting with the President, Lewandowski contacted Rick Dearborn, then a senior White House official, and asked if Dearborn could 618 pass a message to Sessions. Dearborn agreed without knowing what the message was, and Lewandowski later confirmed that Dearborn would meet with 619 Sessions for dinner in late July and could deliver the message then. Lewandowski recalled thinking that the President had asked him to pass the message because the President knew Lewandowski could be trusted, but Lewandowski believed Dearborn would be a better messenger because he had a longstanding relationship with Sessions and because Dearborn was in the 620 government while Lewandowski was not. On July 19, 2017, the President again met with Lewandowski alone in the 621 Oval Office. In the preceding days, as described in Volume II, Section II.G, infra, emails and other information about the June 9, 2016 meeting between several Russians and Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort had been publicly disclosed. In the July 19 meeting with Lewandowski, the President 622 raised his previous request and asked if Lewandowski had talked to Sessions. 623 Lewandowski told the President that the message would be delivered soon. Lewandowski recalled that the President told him that if Sessions did not meet 624 with him, Lewandowski should tell Sessions he was fired.