today, i am not going to talk about theoreticals or can you can i could finish, please. sure. anything i ve had with the president of the united states. i ll make the following comment. in the three plus years iave en t director of the national secury agency, to the best of my recollection, i have never been directed to do anything i believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate. to the best of my recollection, during that same period of service, i do not recall ever feeling pressured to do so. but have in your course prior to the incident that we re going to discuss, was it in any regular course where a president would ask you to comment or intervene in any ongoing fbi investigation? not talking about this circumstance but any prior experience with that? i m not going to talk about theoreticals today. let me ask you specifically. did the president, the reports that are out there, ask you in any way, shape or form, to back off or downplay the russia