respects. bret: i want to take a listen at some of the questioning, specific issues you mentioned. did the president at any time ask you to stop the fbi investigation into russian involvement in the 2016 u.s. elections? not to my understanding. did any individual working for this administration, including the justice department, ask you to stop the russian investigation? no. this is the president speaking. i hope you can see your way to letting this go, letting flynn go. you don t know anyone who s been charged for hoping something. i don t. why didn t you say this is wrong? i cannot discuss it. great question. did you tell the white house counsel is not an appropriate request. someone needs to tell the president he can t do these things? i didn t. in the moment didn t come to my mind. bret: do you think there is an obstruction of justice case here? i think there s evidence that
go, letting flynn go. he s a good guy, i hope you can do this and let this go. was it similar to what the president said on 60 minutes about the clintons? that he didn t want to hurt them? he was basically saying he wanted to let them go. comey apparently didn t want to hurt the clintons either. factoring the campaign, he felt it was necessary to come out and announce the fbi s findings about hillary clinton. comey laid out that clinton had secret special access program and classified information on her unsecured server that we believe 99% certainty was hacke hacked. after all that, he treated clinton with kid gloves. you may remember this in july of last year. looking back at our investigations into the mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts.
a report that concluded hacking had taken place, quote, to help president elect trump s election chances. weeks later mr. trump lavished praise on then f.b.i. director comey. he has become more famous than me. behind closed doors, things soon took a turn. reports surfaced of a meeting between the president and comey in which mr. trump asked comey to drop the investigation into mike flynn who had submitted his rest ignition as national security advisor. a comey memo recalled the president telling him i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. in march testimony comey confirmed the f.b.i. was investigating the russian government s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian
that comey worked for? admits there was confusion about that part of the conversation. there s also a glaring double a standard here. unlike with president trump, james comey didn t write memos about his conversation with president obama. i said this weeks ago. i think that s because comey is planning on writing a novel or a tell-all book or working for msnbc and following rachel maddow every night. he is a perfect black helicopter conspiracy theorist himself. james comey did not require think of this. hillary clinton was not put under oath when she was interviewed about her server. or that a complete transcript of that interview was set to be created. why not? why wasn t that done? look at what happened to michaeh flynn. the guy was tarred and feathered by the press one trump allegedly said i could hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, letting flynn go. he s a good guy, i hope you can do this and let this go.
document their consideration, pulling out a laptop away from trump tower. he finds himself dining with the president-elect in the green room. he writes, my instincts tell me my first one-on-one met the dinner was in part an effort for me to ask for my job and ask for some patronage. the president said, i need loyalty. i expect loyalty. didn t move, speak or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. we simply looked at each other in silence. comey says later he pledged his honesty to the president. february 14th the president held comey jk over in the oval office. during that conversation comey says the president told him, i hope you can see your way to letting this go, letting flynn go. he s a good guy. i hope can you let this go. i replied only that he is a good guy. it was after this meeting that comey says he confront the jeff