>> the president said i never -- i never said anything about flynn. comey said that he told me to see if i would give him a break basically. so we have three defenses to that under article ii of the constitution you can't question why the president has the power to say something. what he was saying is justifiable. he didn't say you must or have to. he said consider it. number three, he never said it. >> that is rudy giuliani's latest response to questions about now the infamous meeting of president trump and now fired fbi director, james comey. over the weekend giuliani backtracked that the president did in fact ask comey to stop investigating michael flynn and his ties to russia. this was giuliani on cnn sunday. >> i want to be clear what happened in that conversation