“I’m not going to discuss the specifics of any conversations with the president of the United States,” Rogers said. (Reuters)Instead, both men said they never felt pressure to do anything inappropriate, or, in Coats’ case, to intervene in an ongoing probe. Both men struggled to provide a consistent rationale for why they could not discuss the conversations with Trump. They also pressed Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe on whether he ever discussed with Comey any conversations Trump had with the then-FBI director. Trump reportedly has at various times in private conversations with Comey asked him for a pledge of loyalty and also urged him to drop the probe into Flynn.

Source: Washington Post June 07, 2017 15:20 UTC