Jack Reed actually said...

"There have been press reports that the President, in addition to asking you to drop the Flynn investigation..."

"Undermining the very core of our democracy and our elections is not a discrete event."

"the Russian investigation, as you have pointed out, and as all my colleagues have reflected, is one of the most serious hostile acts against this country in our history."

"You've testified that the President asked you to lift the cloud by essentially making public statement that exonerated him..."