intervene with the fbi, tell the fbi to back off. and according to "the washington post," that request was made while another senior official was in the room and witnessed it. a man named mike pompeo, who at the time of this alleged incident, was the head of the cia. he's since gone on to become secretary of state. here's how he answered questions about what he saw and heard the day he was in the room, in the white house, when he was the supposed witness to the president trying to enlist the director of national intelligence to kibosh the investigation into his campaign as a complete historical mirror to what nixon got busted for. >> so, director, this account strongly suggests that the president asked you and director coats to interfere with then fbi director comey's investigations into the trump campaign's contacts with russia. what did president trump say to you and director coats in that meeting? >> senator, i'm not going to