i hope this is the president speaking, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice or for that matter for any other criminal offense where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome? >> i don't know well enough to answer and the reason i keep saying his words is, i took it as a direction. >> right. >> this is the president of the united states, with me alone, saying i hope this. i took it as this is what he wants me to do. >> allegations that trump obstructed justice intensified after former fbi director james comey testified before the senate intelligence committee. comey said he believed trump was directing him to drop the investigation into general mike flynn who just resigned as trump's national security