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4/19/2018
l returned the president‘s call this morning at 8.26 am EDT We spoke for about four minutes; He said he was following up to see it‘l did what he had asked last time -— gealngxzut that he personally is not under investigation. l replied that! had passod the reqnesl in the Acting AG and had not heard back {mm him. He spoke for a bit aboiit why itwas so important. He is trying to do work for the country, visit with l'ormgn leadcis, and any cloud. even a little cloud gets in the way oi‘that. They keep bringing up the Russia thing as an excuse for [05mg the election, [ explained that Diana Bonnie was now the acting AG on this after Jefi' Sessions (caused himself, He said maybe he would have his people reach out to Dana lsaid thntt at was the way to handle it -- he should have the White House Counsel call the A ring Attorney General and make the reqivesl He said that was what he would dui He then added, "Because I have been very loyal in you. very layal, we had that hing, you know,” i did nut reply, or ask him what he meant by "that thing.” lnsnind I said again that the way to handle it was to have the White House Counsel cal Diana Boeme He said that‘s what he would win.
He then switched topics and h: an in talk about E tand its leader, saying Obame did ‘I like the guy He mentioned the Co in church bombings and how horrible they were. He said that three Americans hdd been killed by an Egyptian soldier and the Egyptian lender had raised it with him, I inlermptcd to say that l thou ht he meant
and an incident in Jordan He agreed and said had told
him he wanted to hiring the soldier to ustice< uickl but that the FBI was in some m asi.n tie... on deli: . He Shah H 1 replied than would dig into it but iii... i... not believe it to be truethat the FBI was delaying a Jordanian prosecution in fact, we were working veiryi closely with the American famil la‘l and had told them ith we warmed the Jordanians to bringiuslicc and if they did not We would try in bring the killer to the United Stat. He asked me la follow up and make snreihm we were working well with the Jordanians and helping them quickly bring the killer to justice. I told him ‘I would, lie then said Lhml was doing a great job and wished
me well. The call ended
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