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“We both sought out this meeting,” said Wilson-Raybould.

“I need everybody to stop talking to me about SNC, because I have made up my mind,” she told Butts.

The Dec. 18 meeting between Wilson-Raybould, her chief of staff, Butts and Telford

We don’t know a lot about the meeting between Wilson-Raybould, her chief of staff Jessica Prince, Butts and Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford. Wernick’s testimony offered no insight into it, as he said he wasn’t present and therefore couldn’t shed any light on what transpired.

What Wilson-Raybould said:

Prince was “urgently summoned to the meeting.”

“There is no solution here that does not involve some interference,” Butts told Prince.

Prince told Wilson-Raybould that PMO staff was going to “kick the tires” on legal advice.

The Dec. 19 phone call between Wilson-Raybould and Wernick

Just weeks before the cabinet shuffle that saw Wilson-Raybould moved to Veteran Affairs, Wernick called her to provide what he called “context” surrounding her decision on SNC-Lavalin. At committee, Wernick said he told Wilson-Raybould that Trudeau and other ministers were “quite anxious” about the potential impact of a criminal conviction, but Wernick insisted it did not amount to undue pressure on the attorney general.

What Wilson-Raybould said:

Wilson-Raybould said she took the call from home, by herself.

Wernick told her Trudeau wants to be able to say he “tried everything he can within the legitimate toolbox.” Wernick said Trudeau doesn’t want to do anything “outside the box of what is legal and proper.”

Wilson-Raybould said Wernick told her that “I think (the prime minister) is gonna find a way to get it done one way or another. So, he is in that kinda mood and I wanted you to be aware of that.”

Wilson-Raybould reiterated that the clerk was “treading on dangerous ground here” by trying to influence an independent decision of the attorney general. “This all screams of that,” said Wilson-Raybould.

“I said I was having thoughts of the Saturday Night Massacre,” said Wilson-Raybould, a reference to former United States President Richard Nixon’s move to fire a special prosecutor which led to cascading resignations in his attorney general’s office.

— with files from the Canadian Press