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Person has been charged for obstruction of justice or for that matter any other criminal offense where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome? >> i don't know well enough to answer. the reason i keep saying his words is i took it as a direction. he's the president of the united states, with me alone, saying i hope this i took it as this is what he wants me to do. i didn't know pay back, that's the way i took it. >> you may have took it as a direction. he said i hope. >> those were his exact words, correct. >> you don't know anyone that's been charged for hoping something, is that a fai...

With me as president? i was pretty rough on him on the campaign trail? >> he was rough on mccabe? >> by hus accounts, he said he was rough on mcraib kab and his wife. i assured him, andy is a total pro. no issue at all. you got to know the fooeb people of the fbi. >> so the president says, remember i never brought up the mccabe thing because you said he was a good guy. did you perceive that to be a statement that i took care of you, something, because you told me he was a good guy, so now, i'm asking you potentially for something in return? is that how you perceived it? >> i wasn't sure to mak...

Attorney general to leave the oval office so that he could privately ask director comey, again, quote to see a way clear to letting flynn go. >> that is a statement that director comey interpret as a request that he drop the investigation connected to general flynn's false statement itself. think about i. the president of the united states asking the fbi director to drop an ongoing investigation. after that, the president called the fbi director on two additional occasions, march 30th and april 11th and asked him, again, quote to lift the cloud on the russian investigation. now director comey ...

True. is that a fair statement? >> in the main, it was not true. again, all of you know this, the american people don't, the challenge, and i'm not picking on reporters, about writing stories about classified information the people talking about it often don't really know what's going on and those of us know what's been on are not talking about it and we don't call the press oto say, hey, you got that thing wrong about the sensitive topic. we have to leave it there. it mentioned the chairman the nonsense around what influenced me to make the july 5th statement. nonsense, but i can't go explain...

Campaign trail. >> rough on mccabe? >> by his own account, he said he was rough on mccabe and mrs. mccabe on the campaign trail. how is he going to be? i shared with the president, andy is a pro. no issue at all. you have to know people of the fbi. they're not -- >> so the president turns to you and says, remember, i never brought up the mccabe thing because you said he was a good guy, did you perceive that to be a statement that, i took care of you. i didn't do something because you told me he was a good guy. so i'm asking you potentially for something in return. is that how you perceived it?...