From ThinkProgress:
In his written testimony, released Wednesday, Comey writes that during a meeting the president the day after Flynn’s firing, Trump indirectly asked him to quash the Flynn probe, telling him, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
With regard to that incident, Senate Intelligence Committee chair Richard Burr (R-NC) asked Comey if he thought “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.”
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Comey then suggested that the question of whether Trump obstructed justice is part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
“I don’t think it is for me to say whether the conversation I had with the president was an effort to obstruct,” Comey said. “I took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning, but that’s a conclusion I’m sure the special counsel will work toward: to try and understand what the intention was there and whether that’s an offense.”
(my bold)
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Thank the Lordy.
One wonders if Trump will soon invite Mueller over for an intimate dinner.
12:00 EST — Comey reiterates this after Sen. Manchin asks if Comey thinks a certain exchange amounted to obstruction of justice. Comey replied, “that is for Robert Mueller to decide."