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43 was to have the White House Counsel ask the Justice Department to get out that he wasn't under investigation.

Then we gave a heads-up. I think -- I don't think I did it directly. I think my chief of staff did it. Called Mr. Boente and said, "The President just called. Wants to know what happened with that thing." And Mr. Boente's reaction was, in substance, "Oh, God, I was hoping that would go away."

Mr. But that's on the 10th of April.

Mr. I think the 11th of April maybe. I could have the dates wrong.

Mr. Okay, 10th or 11th of April. So, again, you've got another month still on the job. Nothing happened?

Mr. I don't know what happened. I don't remember any further conversations that I was involved in until I was fired on May the 9th.

Mr. Okay.

Mr. Director Comey, I think your counsel has a copy of one of the exhibits to the Cohen sentencing memo that purports to be the notes of Andy McCabe. Do you see that?

Mr. I see the document dated January 24th, 2017.

Mr. That's right. Will you look at the last paragraph with me, kind of the sentence in the middle? "I explained that I thought the quickest way to get this done was to have a conversation between him and the agents only."

Does that change your impression of whether or not the Bureau