258 McFarland 12/22/17 302, at 17. 259 McFarland 12/22/17 302, at 17. 260 KTMF_00000048 (McFarland 2/26/17 Memorandum for the Record); McFarland 12/22/17 302, at 17. 261 KTMF_00000048 (McFarland 2/26/17 Memorandum for the Record); see McFarland 12/22/17 302, at 17. 262 McFarland 12/22/17 302, at 17; KTMF_00000048 (McFarland 2/26/17 Memorandum for the Record). 263 Priebus 1/18/18 302, at 9. 264 Priebus 1/18/18 302, at 9; Flynn 1/19/18 302, at 9. 265 Priebus 1/18/18 302, at 9-10. 266 @realDonaldTrump 3/31/17 (7:04 a.m. ET) Tweet; see Shane Harris at al., Mike Flynn Offers to Testify in Exchange for Immunity, Wall Street Journal (Mar. 30, 2017). 267 McFarland 12/22/17 302, at 18. 268 Excerpts From The Times’s Interview With Trump, New York Times (July 19, 2017). Hicks recalled that the President told her he had never asked Comey to stay behind in his office. Hicks 12/8/17 302, at 12. 269 In a statement on May 16, 2017, the White House said: “While the President has repeatedly expressed his view that General Flynn is a decent man who served and protected our country, the President has never asked Mr. Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn. . . . This is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the President and Mr. Comey.” See Michael S. Schmidt, Comey Memorandum Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation, New York Times (May 16, 2017) (quoting White House statement); @realDonaldTrump 12/3/17 (6:15 a.m. ET) Tweet (“I never asked Comey to stop investigating Flynn. Just more Fake News covering another Comey lie!”). 270 Priebus recalled that the President acknowledged telling Comey that Flynn was a good guy and he hoped “everything worked out for him.” Priebus 10/13/17 302, at 19. McGahn recalled that the President denied saying to Comey that he hoped Comey would let Flynn go, but added that he was “allowed to hope.” The President told McGahn he did not think he had crossed any lines. McGahn 12/14/17 302, at 8. 271 Rybicki 11/21/18 302, at 4; McCabe 8/17/17 302, at 13-14. 272 See Priebus 10/13/17 302, at 18; Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 6. 273 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 1; Hunt 2/1/18 302, at 3. 274 E.g., Adam Entous et al., Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did