the room so he can speak with comey alone. jim comey looks sort of imploringly over his shoulder at the attorney general saying, don t leave me alone with him, please! something terribl is about to happen. he has a premonition. what happens, according to comey, is that trump asks him to back off the investigation of his national security adviser michael flynn, whom he fired a day earlier for lying about his conversations with the russian ambassador. the request raises questions. was trump asking comey to move past the flynn investigation because he was being loyal to flynn or is it because there s something that flynn knows? comey faces a new challenge two weeks later, when the president tweets that president obama had trump s wires tapped in trump tower. i have no information that supports those tweets and we have looked carefully inside the