on October 18, 2017, the President tweeted, “Wow, FBI confirms report that James Comey drafted letter exonerating Crooked Hillary Clinton long before investigation was complete. Many people not interviewed, including Clinton herself. Comey stated under oath that he didn’t do this-obviously a fix? Where is 755 Justice Dept?” On October 29, 2017, the President tweeted that there was “ANGER & UNITY” over a “lack of investigation” of Clinton arid “the Comey 756 fix,” and concluded: “DO SOMETHING!” On December 6, 2017, five days after Flynn pleaded guilty to lying about his contacts with the Russian government, the President asked to speak with 757 Sessions in the Oval Office at the end of a cabinet meeting. During that Oval Office meeting, which Porter attended, the President again suggested that Sessions could “unrecuse,” which Porter linked to taking back supervision of the 758 Russia investigation and directing an investigation of Hillary Clinton. According to contemporaneous notes taken by Porter, the President said, “I don’t know if you could un-recuse yourself. You’d be a hero. Not telling you to do anything. Dershowitz says POTUS can get involved. Can order AG to investigate. I don’t want to get involved. I’m not going to get involved. I’m not going to do anything or direct you to do anything. I just want to be treated 759 fairly.” According to Porter’s notes, Sessions responded, “We are taking steps; whole new leadership team. Professionals; will operate according to the 760 law.” Sessions also said, “I never saw anything that was improper,” which Porter thought was noteworthy because it did not fit with the previous discussion 761 about Clinton. Porter understood Sessions to be reassuring the President that 762 he was on the President’s team. At the end of December, the President told the New York Times it was “too 763 bad” that Sessions had recused himself from the Russia investigation. When asked whether Holder had been a more loyal Attorney General to President Obama than Sessions was to him, the President said, “I don’t want to get into loyalty, but I will tell you that, I will say this: Holder protected President Obama. Totally protected him. When you look at the things that they did, and Holder 764 protected the president. And I have great respect for that, I’ll be honest.” Later in January, the President brought up the idea of replacing Sessions and told 765 Porter that he wanted to “clean house” at the Department of Justice. In a meeting in the White House residence that Porter attended on January 27, 2018,