Special Counsel removed, the President met one-on-one in the Oval Office with 603 his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Senior White House advisors described Lewandowski as a “devotee” of the President and said the 604 relationship between the President and Lewandowski was “close.” During the June 19 meeting, Lewandowski recalled that, after some small talk, the President brought up Sessions and criticized his recusal from the Russia 605, investigation. The President told Lewandowski that Sessions was weak and that if the President had known about the likelihood of recusal in advance, he 606 would not have appointed Sessions. The President then asked Lewandowski 607 to deliver a message to Sessions and said “write this down.” This was the first time the President had asked Lewandowski to take dictation, and Lewandowski wrote as fast as possible to make sure he captured the content 608 correctly. The President directed that Sessions should give a speech publicly announcing: I know that I recused myself from certain things having to do with specific areas. But our POTUS . . . is being treated very unfairly. He shouldn’t have a Special Prosecutor/Counsel b/c he hasn’t done anything wrong. I was on the campaign w/ him for nine months, there were no Russians involved with him. I know it for a fact b/c I was there. He didn’t do anything wrong except he ran the greatest 609 campaign in American history. The dictated message went on to state that Sessions would meet with the Special Counsel to limit his jurisdiction to future election interference: Now a group of people want to subvert the Constitution of the United States. I am going to meet with the Special Prosecutor to explain this is very unfair and let the Special Prosecutor move forward with investigating election meddling for future elections so that nothing can 610 happen in future elections. The President said that if Sessions delivered that statement he would be the 611 “most popular guy in the country.” Lewandowski told the President he