OF HOURS.
HERE'S THE DEEPER LOOK.
FROM ARE THE FIRST OF JIM 
COMEY'S NINE ONE-ON-ONE 
INTERACTIONS WITH PRESIDENT 
TRUMP TO THE LAST, LESS THAN A 
MONTH BEFORE HIS FIRING, 
TESTIMONY THAT LAYS OUT A STORY 
OF LOYALTY PLEDGES, POTENTIALLY 
DAMNING REQUESTS AND A PRESIDENT
INFEWER AID BY THE FBI 
DIRECTOR'S REFUSAL TO SAY 
PUBLICLY HE WASN'T UNDER 
INVESTIGATION. 
>> DURING THE PHONE CALL HE SAID
IT AND THEN DURING ANOTHER PHONE
CALL HE SAID, IT SO HE SAID IT 
ONCE AT DINNER AND THEN HE SAID 
IT TWICE DURING PHONE CALLS. 
>> DID YOU CALL HIM?
>> IN ONE CASE I CALLED HIM AND 
ONE CASE HE CALLED ME. 
>> AND DID YOU ASK AM I UNDER 
INVESTIGATION?
>> I ASKED HIM, YES.
I SAID IF IT'S POSSIBLE, WOULD 
YOU LET ME KNOW AM I UNDER 
INVESTIGATION, AND HE SAID YOU 
ARE NOT UNDER INVESTIGATION.
>> Reporter: COMEY DESCRIBING AN
OVAL OFFICE MEETING WITH 
MR. TRUMP AND OTHER 
COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICIALS WHERE
ALL BUT COMEY WERE DISMISSED.
I WANT TO TALK ABOUT MICHAEL 
FLYNN, COMEY QUOTES THE 
PRESIDENT AS SAYING, REFERRING 
TO HIS RECENTLY FIRED NATIONAL 
SECURITY ADVISER.
I HOPE YOU CAN SEE YOUR WAY 
CLEAR TO LETTING THIS GO, TO 
LETTING FLYNN GO, COMEY SAYS 
TRUMP TOLD HIM.
HE'S A GOOD GUY.
I HOPE YOU CAN LET THIS GO.
COMEY GOES ON TO SAY HE PREPARED
AN UNCLASSIFIED MEMO OF THAT 
CONVERSATION, UNDERSTANDING THAT
THE PRESIDENT WAS REQUESTING HE 
DROP ANY PROBE INTO FLYNN.
HE SHARED THAT ASSESSMENT WITH 
HIS FBI LEADERSHIP TEAM BUT 
DECLINED TO SHARE IT WITH 
ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS 
ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT SESSIONS 
WOULD SOON BE RECUSED.
WHILE THOSE DETAILS WERE KEPT 
CLOSE, COMEY SAYS THE NEXT TIME 
HE SPOKE TO SESSIONS, QUOTE, I 
TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO IMPLORE 
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO PREVENT 
ANY FUTURE DIRECT COMMUNICATION 
BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND ME, 
BUT COMEY ALSO CONFIRMING THAT 
JUST AS PRESIDENT TRUMP WROTE IN
HIS LETTER FIRING THE FBI 
DIRECTOR, HE HAD IN FACT FIRST 
INFORMED THE PRESIDENT-ELECT ON 
JANUARY 6th HE WASN'T THE TARGET
OF A COUNTERINTELLIGENCE 
INVESTIGATION.
IT WAS A POINT THAT BASED ON 
COMEY'S RECOUNTING AIDED TRUMP 
AND DOMINATED MUCH OF THEIR 
INTERACTIONS AFTER TRUMP ASOUMD 
OFFICE.
TRUMP, STRESSING THE CLOUD OF 
THE RUSSIA PROBE AS, QUOTE, 
INTERFERING WITH HIS ABILITY TO 
MAKE DEALS FOR THE COUNTRY, 
COMEY RECOUNTED.
TRUMP TELLING COMEY AT ONE POINT
WE NEED TO GET THAT FACT OUT.
AND ANOTHER SAYING EXPLICITLY HE
HOPED I COULD FIND A WAY TO GET 
OUT THAT HE WASN'T BEING 
INVESTIGATED.
COMEY IN HIS TESTIMONY MAKING 
CLEAR ONE OF THE PRIMARY REASONS
HE WOULD NOT SAY TRUMP WASN'T 
BEING INVESTIGATED PUBLICLY.
