674 recalled receiving media inquiries that could relate to the June 9 meeting. 2. The President Directs Communications Staff Not to Publicly Disclose Information About the June 9 Meeting Communications advisors Hope Hicks and Josh Raffel recalled discussing with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump that the emails were damaging and would 675 inevitably be leaked. Hicks and Raffel advised that the best strategy was to 676 proactively release the emails to the press. On or about June 22, 2017, Hicks attended a meeting in the White House residence with the President, Kushner, 677 and Ivanka Trump. According to Hicks, Kushner said that he wanted to fill the President in on something that had been discovered in the documents he was to provide to the congressional committees involving a meeting with him, 678 Manafort, and Trump Jr. Kushner brought a folder of documents to the meeting and tried to show them to the President, but the President stopped Kushner and said he did not want to know about it, shutting the conversation 679 down. On June 28, 2017, Hicks viewed the emails at Kushner’s attorney’s 680 office. She recalled being shocked by the emails because they looked “really 681 bad.” The next day, Hicks spoke privately with the President to mention her concern about the emails, which she understood were soon going to be shared 682 with Congress. The President seemed upset because too many people knew about the emails and he told Hicks that just one lawyer should deal with the 683 matter. The President indicated that he did not think the emails would leak, 684 but said they would leak if everyone had access to them. Later that day, Hicks, Kushner, and Ivanka Trump went together to talk to 685 the President. Hicks recalled that Kushner told the President the June 9 meeting was not a big deal and was about Russian adoption, but that emails 686 existed setting up the meeting. Hicks said she wanted to get in front of the story and have Trump Jr. release the emails as part of an interview with “softball 687 questions.” The President said he did not want to know about it and they 688 should not go to the press. Hicks warned the President that the emails were “really bad” and the story would be “massive” when it broke, but the President