Former FBI Director James Comey said he could not assess whether President Donald Trump’s request for Comey to drop an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn amounted to obstruction of justice.
“I don’t think it’s for me to say whether the conversation I had with the President was an effort to obstruct,” Comey said when asked if Trump had obstructed justice. “I took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning, but that’s a conclusion I’m sure the special counsel will work towards to try and understand what the intention was there and whether that’s an offense.”
