And when Republicans asked why he had not told the president he was out of line for asking Mr. Comey to<br />“see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Mr. Comey said perhaps he should have.<br />Comey Bluntly Raises Possibility of Trump Obstruction and Condemns His ‘Lies’ -<br />By MATT APUZZO and EMMARIE HUETTEMANJUNE 8, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — James B. Comey, the recently fired F. B.I.<br />Though Mr. Comey told Mr. Trump three times that he was not under investigation, he said others at the F. B.I.<br />director, said Thursday in an extraordinary Senate hearing<br />that he believed President Trump had tried to derail an investigation into his national security adviser, and accused the president of lying and defaming him and the F. B.I.<br />And he said Mr. Trump had lied — a word that is often soft-pedaled in Washington — when<br />he justified the firing by saying Mr. Comey had lost the confidence of an F. B.I.
