FULL HEARING: James #Comey Explosive TESTIMONY at Senate Intelligence
Sen. Marco Rubio asks fired FBI director James Comey about his Oval Office meeting with President Trump, where the president allegedly told him he "hoped" he could have the FBI go easy on fired national security adviser Mike Flynn, and his other interactions with the president during the investigation into the 2016 election.
RUBIO: Now, on a number of occasions here, you bring up -- let's talk (ph) now about the general Russia investigation, OK? In page 6 of your testimony, you say -- the first thing you say is, he asked what we could do to, quote/unquote, "lift the cloud," the general Russia investigation.
And you responded that we were investigating the matter as quickly as we could and that there would be great benefit, if we didn't find anything, to having done the work well. And he agreed. He reemphasized the problems it was causing him, but he agreed
