When former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, 2017, he reiterated what he had documented in his contemporaneous notes – that the president encouraged him to shut down the investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
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On Sunday's "This Week," Rudy Giuliani, the president's lawyer, appeared to acknowledge Comey's account may be true but also argued it was not a big deal.
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After host George Stephanopoulos said to Giuliani that Comey says he took Trump's remark as direction, Giuliani responded that he was also told, "Can you give the man a break?" many times as a prosecutor.
"He didn't direct him to do that," Giuliani said. "What he said was, can you, can you ..."
"Comey says he took it as direction," Stephanopoulos interjected.
"Well, that's okay. He could have taken it that way, but by that time he had been fired," Giuliani responded. "He said a lot of other things, some of which has turned out to be untrue. The reality is, as a prosecutor, I was told that many times, 'can you give the man a break,' either by his lawyers, by his relatives, by his friends. You take that into consideration. But you know that doesn't determine not going forward with it."
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Trump has denied discussing Flynn with Comey. During a May 2017 news conference, Trump said when asked if he had urged Comey to ease up on the Flynn investigation, "no, no," and then said, "next question."
Giuliani seems to say Trump asked Comey to give Michael Flynn 'a break' (CNN)
Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation (NYT)