he then paused and said that s what i want. honest loyalty. comey notes it is possible he and mr. trump had very different interpretations of what honesty, honest loyalty meant. but he says he wanted to end an awkward moment. after that meeting president trump cross as big line according to comey. during a meeting in the oval office on february 14, the president tells him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go. to letting the former national security adviser michael flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. i had understood the president to be requesting that we drop any investigations of flynn in question, false statements about his conversations with the russian ambassador in december. here s comey s explanation. the fbi leadership team agreed with me that it was important not to ineffect the investigative team with the president s request which we did not intend to abide.
now, this makes it three white house officials who apparently tried to talk sessions out of the decision that he did ultimately make to recuse himself and i just want to read the response from sean spicer very quickly here because i think it s important. he said for eight months the narrative was that i was out of the loop and now i am part of it? i don t think so. so sean spicer denying that he did anything other than call sessions about aen cofor instance call. he did not say he was part of an effort to pressure sessions not to recuse himself in this case. all right. abby, thank you. so cnn political commentators with us now as well as washington examiner reporter and former u.s. attorney michael moore. thank you all for being here. i want to start with you michael on that note about what s going on with sessions. if it s true, did president trump cross any legal line here? you know, i think we get a lot closer to an obstruction case when we hear that the president tried to con