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Comey Corrects Rubio: I Promised To Be ‘Honestly Loyal,’ Not ‘Loyally Honest’ (VIDEO)

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., center, speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesd... Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., center, speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Seated with Burr from left, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. The nation's intelligence chiefs, facing questions from Congress one day before former FBI Director James Comey provides his first public account of the events leading up to his firing, declined to describe conversations with President Donald Trump but said they had not been directed to do anything they considered illegal or felt pressured to do so. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) MORE LESS
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June 8, 2017 11:09 a.m.
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In questioning fired FBI Director James Comey, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) got the order of two crucial words mixed up. Comey wrote in his opening statement, released yesterday, that he had gotten out of a conversation in which President Donald Trump asked for his loyalty first by promising only “honesty,” and eventually by pledging “honest loyalty.”

“He asked for your loyalty,” Rubio asked. “And you said you would be loyally honest.” 

“Honestly loyal,” Comey corrected him.

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