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36 Mr. By explaining to him the reason that I was doing it and explaining that it was unverified, that it wasn't something that we were investigating, and then, once the conversation, in my judgment, started to go off the rails, by then telling him we were not investigating him personally.

Mr. Okay.

Can you go to the memo No. 2, the one that's, I think, dated the 28th, January 28th, 2017, I think recounting your conversations at dinner with the President from the day before, the 27th. And I want to go to page 4 of that.

Again, this is where Mr. Gowdy was, in some ways, earlier, but I kind of want to -- I just want to try to understand this.

When did the White House learn that you had actually interviewed -- so your conversation with the President -- you have dinner with the President on the 27th of January. The 24th is the day -- 3 days earlier is when Mr. Flynn is interviewed by two agents.

When did the White House actually then learn that General Flynn had been interviewed by the FBI?

Mr. I don't know. It's hard because I don't know what you mean by "the White House." My recollection is that the Deputy Attorney General went over on the 25th and, I think, on the 26th and spoke to the White House Counsel. My recollection is that this -- that he had been interviewed came up then. But I don't know whether people knew about it the day we interviewed