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about investigations that DOJ was handling? A Well, it depends what the investigation was about. On Epstein, I only remember two conversations I had with the President. Q So could you tell us about those two conversations? A One was when I heard about the suicide, I called him up and said, "You better brace for this," and I told him words to that effect, and I told him about it and told him we were going to be investigating it very vigorously. And the second one, I can't say for sure whether it happened before his suicide, during -- meaning around the time of his arrest or whether it happened after his suicide during the continued developments there. But the topic of Epstein came up in the conversation. Multiple people were there. And, sort of, the news of -- it was commented on being the news of the day. And the President said something to the effect that he had broken off with Epstein long ago and that he had actually pushed him out of Mar-a-Lago. Q Okay. And just to clarify, those were both conversations with President Trump? A Both involved with President Trump, yeah. Those are the only two conversations I can remember where Epstein came up with the President. Q And when you say that you told President Trump who the news of the suicide would affect, what did you mean by that? A Who it would affect? Did I say that? Q I'm sorry. Unless I'm misunderstanding your characterization. A I didn't mean to say that. Q Okay. A I said that I told him that he committed suicide and that he suspected it was apparently suicide. And he had the same reaction I did, which was, "How the hell did that happen, he's in