“I have to tell you, I respect the fact that Director Comey was able to come back after what he did,” he said. Trump begins by asking Comey if he wanted to stay on as FBI director, a question he’d asked before. According to Comey, Trump asks him to “see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. His testimony apparently triggers fury by Trump and the president’s final decision to fire the FBI director. Schmidt reports that people who’d seen the letter said that the first line mentioned the Russia investigation.

Source: Washington Post January 05, 2018 18:33 UTC