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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast here to talk about fired FBI director James

Comey's testimony today and a couple other stories in the news this week. I'm Scott Detrello,

I cover Congress for NPR. I'm Carrie Townton, the Justice correspondent. I'm Mara Lias and

National Political correspondent. And I'm Ron Elving, Editor correspondent. And Mara is joining us

from the White House. All right guys, in the words of Vice President Mike Pence today,

it has been a banner week for infrastructure. Excellent. Obviously, James Comey is the news of the day,

the news of the week, maybe the news of the month. Who knows, we'll see, it's still early.

So here's what we're going to do. I'm going to recap it a little bit. We're going to talk about

kind of key moments that jumped out to us. And then we are going to make our way through the

high points of about three hours of super dramatic Senate testimony. Is that sound good?

Absolutely. Sounds great to me. All right, so here's where we are. The former director of the FBI

testified that he believes he was fired because of the way he handled an investigation into

whether President Trump's campaign colluded with Russian operatives. He says Trump pressured him

in the Oval Office to drop an investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

But at the same time, Comey also said that up to the point he was fired, Trump himself was never

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