http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/336756-comey-will-confirm-trump-asked-him-to-let-flynn-investigation-goComey offers dramatic details of Trump meeting in opening statement
By Katie Bo Williams - 06/07/17 01:55 PM EDT
Fired FBI Director James Comey on Thursday will confirm reports that President Trump pressed him to let go of the bureau’s investigation into former national security advisor Michael Flynn.
Comey on Wednesday released the opening statement of his highly anticipated testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
In an encounter shortly after Flynn’s, Comey's statement says, Trump said he hoped that Comey could "let go" of the investigation.
In another, Comey reports that the president said to him, "I need loyalty. I expect loyalty."
Comey also confirmed Trump's claim that he assured the president personally he was not under investigation.
In a discussion following Comey's March 20 disclosure of the existence of the investigation, Comey will testify, he told the president that he had informed congressional leadership on which individuals were currently under investigation.
"I did not tell the president that the FBI and the Department of Justice had been reluctant to make public statements that we did not have an open case on President Trump for a number of reasons, most importantly because it would create a duty to correct, should that change," Comey plans to say.
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