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At the fbi and what was their response? >> well, the fbi during one of the two conversations, i'm not remembering exactly. i think the first, my chief of staff was sitting in front of me and we heard my end of the conversation because the president's call was a surprise. and i discussed the listing the cloud in the request with the senior leadership team who in typically and i'm thinking all these circumstance, was the deputy director, my chief of staff the general count sell, the deputy director's chief counsel and i think in a number of circumstances the number three in the fbi and a few of ...

You big, you are strong. i know the oval office and i know what happens to people when they walk in. there is a certain amount of intimidation. why didn't you stop and say, mr. president, this is wrong, i cannot discuss this with you? >> that's a fair question. maybe if i were stronger, i would have. i was so stunned by the conversation that i just took it in and the only thing i could think to say, because i was playing in my mind to remember every word he said, i was playing in my mind, what should my response be. that's why i very carefully chose the words. i seen the tweet about tapes. i h...

They did it with overwhelming technical efforts and it was an active measures campaign driven from the top of that government. there is no does on that. it is a high competence judgment of the entire intelligence community and the members of this committee have seen the intelligence. it's not a close call. >> that happened. that's about as unfake as you can possibly get and it is very, very serious, which is why it's so refreshing to see a bipartisan focus on that. because this is about america, not any particular party. >> so that was a pos tile act against the russian against the country? >>...

An unreported contact with the russian, which is an offense and if press accounts are right, there might have been discrepancys between facts and his fbi testimony. in your estimation, was general flynn at that time in serious legal jeopardy and, in addition to that, do you sense that the president was trying to obstruct justice or just seek for a way for mike flynn to save face given he had already been fired? >> general flynn at that point in time was in jeellegal jeopar. there was an open criminal investigation in his connection with the russian contacts and the contacts, themselves. so tha...

President talks to me. in the room, why didn't we raise the specific -- it was of investigative interest to us to try and figure out so what just happened with the president's request, so i would not have wanted to alert the white house that it had happened until we fixed out, what are we going to do with this veckively. >> your testimony was that you went to attorney general sessions and said, don't ever leave me alone with him again. are you saying that you also told him that he had made a request that you let it go with regard to part of the investigation of michael flynn? >> no, i specific...