Don't ever leave me alone with him again.

It's fundamental to the operation of our government that the FBI be insulated from this kind of political pressure.

The President never should have cleared the room, and he never should have asked you, as you reported, to let it go.

I think the point you're making is, if they had similar conversations about the investigation, as Mr. Comey reported, that certainly goes to buttress his position.

We know from the public record, I mean, the president cited Jeff Sessions recommendation in his letter firing Comey.

Let's find out if there were tapes and if there were, let's have them.

I think that's very important for the American people to understand, that this is very much a forward-looking investigation in terms of how do we understand what they did and how do we prevent it.

That tells me that the president knew what he was going to be discussing had some extraordinary significance.

Putin is not a Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not a Democrat.

I don't think Putin is a Republican or a Democrat. He's an opportunist.

Well, my sense is, if he recused himself, he should have recused himself and not had anything to do with that decision.

This isn't somebody in a powerful position. This is the president of the United States in the Oval Office with you alone.

He has a great deal of credibility, as we've heard in this hearings.

I would have to say it's quite preliminary. I mean, we're interviewing witnesses.

For months the president has been dismissing the whole matter as a hoax and a fake and a witch-hunt, and those kinds of things.

Yes. We have unprecedented access to intelligence documents.

I think it's important to make this distinction. Our committee is looking at the facts of what happened and trying to figure out how to prevent this from happening again.

I believe that the Fourth Amendment imposes a warrant requirement in between that step, which is not present in the present process.