what about this part After asking Comey to conf

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After asking Comey to confirm that the words were Trump’s precise comments, the following exchange took place:

Risch: He did not direct you to “let it go.”

Comey: Not in his words, no.

Risch: He did not order you to let it go?

Comey: Again, those words are not an order.

Risch: He said, “I hope.” Now like me, you probably did hundreds of cases, maybe thousands of cases charging people with criminal offenses ... Do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice or for that matter any other criminal offense, where they said or thought they “hoped” for an outcome?

Comey: I don’t know well enough to answer, but the reason I keep saying “his words” is, I took it as a direction. I mean, 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.”

Risch: You may have taken it as a direction, but that’s not what he said .

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio later asked Comey to concede a similar point.

“As you perceived it, even though it was a request that he hoped you did away with it, you perceived it as an order, given his position, the setting and some of the circumstances?” Rubio asked.

“Yes,” Comey replied.

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