[4끊어말하기] Comey details ( ) and ( ) meetings with ( )  

Comey details (          ) and (          ) meetings with (          )



In a sweeping opening (          )

released ahead of his (          )

to the Senate (          ),

former FBI Director (          ) detailed

a series of (          ) with (          )

in which he says

(          ) left

him feeling uncomfortable and "concerned,"

pressed

him for (          )

pushed

him to clear (          )'s name

and drop (          )

into former national security adviser (          ).

In (          ),

Comey painted

a cringe-worthy (          ) of his meetings and calls 

with the newly-minted (          ) -- [(화폐를)주조하다]

closed-door meetings, private dinners and phone calls

in which he says

(          ) harped

on (          ) of Flynn and the Russia investigation.

 

(          ) left

him

in an "awkward silence" with (          )

at one point

and drove

him to beseech (          ) Sessions [간청하다]

not to allow "any further direct (          )

between the President and me."

What (          ) and (          ) discussed

has become a matter of intense (          )

after (          ) surfaced

last month

that Trump asked

(          ) to put the brakes

on the Flynn (          ) , allegations

contained in (          )

that was described to (          ).

 

 

The alleged request raised

the specter of (          ) of justice,

but the White House denied

(          ) .

Read Comey's prepared (          )

Trump's (          )

for firing Comey

in (          )

have also come

under (          ). [sc 정밀조사]

 

Initially, (          ) referred

to a letter from (          )

citing Comey's botched (          ) of the Clinton investigation, [bo 실패한]

but he later said

he was thinking about (          )

when he decided to fire (          ).

And Trump's (          )

in his letter firing Comey

that the FBI director assured

him (          ) times

that he was not under (          )

also became a point of contention. [co 다툼]

 

(          ) were skeptical,  [as 연상] [sk 의심스러운]

but (          ) is set to testify tomorrow

that (          ) did offer

those (          )

(though it's unclear

if (          ) was referring to (          )

as he states

at (          )).

“The President is pleased

that Mr. Comey has finally publicly confirmed

his private reports

that the President was not under investigation

in any Russian probe,"

 

Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz said

in a statement.

 

"The President feels

completely and totally

vindicated. [정당성을 입증하다]

 

He is eager to continue

to move forward

with his agenda.”

Here's a look

at what Comey is expected

to say in his testimony Thursday:

"Loyalty"

In one notable exchange,
 

Comey described

a private dinner

at the White House on Jan. 27

when Trump turned to his future as FBI director.

"A few moments later,
 

the President said,

'I need loyalty,

I expect loyalty,'"

the statement reads.

 

"I didn’t move, speak, or change

my facial expression

in any way

during the awkward silence

that followed.

 

We simply looked at each other

in silence."

 

When Trump returned to the top

at the end of the dinner,

Comey only promised "honesty."

"He paused and then said,
 

'That’s what I want, honest loyalty,'"

the statement said.

"I paused, and then said,

'You will get that

from me.'"

During a May 12 press briefing,
 

Press Secretary Sean Spicer denied

that Trump had asked Comey

for loyalty.

"No," Spicer said

when asked if "the President implore him [간청하다]

to pledge his loyalty to the President."

 

Comey also detailed

his version of a Feb. 14 meeting,

where he says

Trump asked him

to drop any investigation

into former national security adviser Mike Flynn

after dismissing other advisers,

as well as the attorney general,

from the Oval Office.

Some have suggested
 

that obstruction of justice may apply to Trump

because of his request to Comey

about Flynn,

but the White House has denied

that the president tried to block the probe.

"The president has never asked
 

Mr. Comey or anyone else

to end any investigation,

including any investigation

involving General Flynn,"

the White House statement from May

said.

In Comey's statement,

he details Trump's alleged closed-door efforts

to get him to look the other way.

“I hope
 

you can see your way clear

to letting this go,

to letting Flynn go.

He is a good guy.

 

I hope

you can let this go.”

Trump said,

according to the prepared statement

from Comey.

Trump's alleged request
 

to Comey --

first reported

last month after sources described

a memo Comey wrote

about the matter --

came a day after Flynn had resigned.

 

Comey,

who said he agreed

Flynn was a "good guy,"

writes in his statement

that he did not tell Trump

he would let the Flynn investigation go.

"I had understood the President
 

to be requesting

that we drop any investigation of Flynn

in connection with false statements

about his conversations

with the Russian ambassador

in December,"

the statement said.

 

"I did not understand

the President to be talking

about the broader investigation

into Russia or possible links

to his campaign.

 

I could be wrong,

but I took him to be focusing

on what had just happened

with Flynn’s departure and the controversy

around his account of his phone calls.

 

Regardless,

it was very concerning,

given the FBI’s role

as an independent investigative agency."

In the wake of news of the Comey memo
 

last month,

some questioned

why Comey didn't bring

the matter forward

at the time.

 

Comey's testimony appears to address

that matter.

"The FBI leadership team agreed with me
 

that it was important

not to infect the investigative team

with the President’s request,

which we did not intend to abide,"

Comey's statement said.

 

"We also concluded

that, given that it was a one-on-one conversation,

there was nothing available to corroborate my account." [확증하다]

The former FBI director said
 

the leadership team concluded

"it made little sense"

to report Trump's request

about Flynn to Sessions,

who was expected to recuse himself

in the Russia probe,

or the acting deputy attorney general,

who was not going to be

in the role long,

Comey wrote.

"After discussing the matter,
 

we decided

to keep it very closely held,

resolving to figure out

what to do with it down the road

as our investigation progressed,"

the statement read.

When asked om May 18
 

if he had "in any way, shape or form" asked Comey

to back off the Flynn investigation,

Trump said "No. No. Next question."

Shutting down communication with Trump 

Shortly after his Feb. 14 meeting with Trump,
 

however, Comey had an in-person meeting

with Sessions and

"implore[d] the Attorney General

to prevent any future direct communication

between the President and me."

Comey also said
 

that when he mentioned to Sessions

that he thought

it was "inappropriate" for the president

to dismiss the AG

from the room

but keep the FBI director behind,

Sessions "did not reply."

"For the reasons
 

discussed above,

I did not mention

that the President broached [운을 떼다]

the FBI’s potential investigation of General Flynn,"

he wrote.

3 assurances

Trump was not under investigation

During the interactions,
 

Comey assured

Trump three times

that he was not "personally" the subject of a counter-intelligence investigation,

a fact that Trump allegedly requested he "get out,"

according to Comey's prepared remarks.

 

The former FBI director's first encounter with Trump was

in Jan. 6

when Trump was president-elect,

for an intelligence briefing

on the "salacious and unverified" dossier [조서]

when Trump was president-elect.

 

"That was true;

we did not have

an open counter-intelligence case

on him,"

Comey's testimony reads.

 

Comey's testimony continues,

"During our one-on-one meeting

at Trump Tower,

based on President-elect Trump’s reaction

to the [Jan 6] briefing

and without him directly asking the question,

I offered that assurance."

The remarks indicate
 

Comey gave

Trump similar assurances

during a dinner on Jan. 27

and a March 30 phone call.

"Cloud" hanging
 

over the presidency

 

Over a March 30 phone call,

Trump told Comey

that the Russia investigation --

which had plagued the new administration for months --

was a "cloud"

that was impairing his ability

to do his job as president.

"He asked
 

what we could do

to 'lift the cloud.'"

Comey writes.

According to Comey,

Trump pushed him

to find a way to publicly make known

that the FBI isn't investigating him.

"I told him

I would see what we could do,

and that we would do our investigative work well

and as quickly as we could,"

Comey's testimony states.

Comey then called

Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente

for guidance.

On April 11 -- the last time Comey spoke to Trump --

the president called Comey,

wanting to know

what Comey had done

to meet his request

that he "get out"

that Trump is not personally under investigation,

Comey's statement said.

Comey informed Trump

that the White House counsel, Don McGahn, should notify

the Justice Department

to make the request.

"He said

he would do that and added,

'Because I have been very loyal to you, very loyal;

we had that thing you know.'

 

I did not reply or ask him

what he meant

by 'that thing,'"

Comey writes.

Trump ultimately made the decision

to fire Comey on May 9,

an unexpected decision

by Trump

that Democrats decried

and some Republicans questioned.

The president later admitted

in an interview with NBC

that he was thinking of the Russia investigation

when he made up his mind

to fire Comey.

 

 

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