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FBI Director James Comey comments on President Trump's tweets during his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee._  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Apr 12, 2017 6:31 PM UTC  FBI Director James Comey testifies during for a House Intelligence Committee hearing in Longworth Building on Russian interference with the 2016 election on March 20, 2017. FBI Director James Comey testifies during for a House Intelligence Committee hearing in Longworth Building on Russian interference with the 2016 election on March 20, 2017. Tom Williams—Getty Images  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Apr 12, 2017 6:31 PM UTC President Donald Trump said Wednesday that it is not too late to ask [FBI Director James Comey ](http://time.com/4707021/comey-hearing-gravamen-watergate/)to step aside from his position, although he acknowledged he has “confidence” in him. “It’s not too late, but, you know, I have confidence in him. We’ll see what happens,” [Trump](http://time.com/4712153/climate-change-deniers-donald-trump-epa-global-warming/) told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo. “You know, it’s going to be interesting.” Bartiromo had asked Trump directly if it was a mistake that he hadn’t asked Comey to step aside at the beginning of his presidency, and if it was too late to change course. Comey acknowledged in a Congressional testimony on March 20 that the [FBI is investigating](http://time.com/4706646/fbi-russia-james-comey-testimony/) Russian meddling in the 2016 election along with possible links to the Trump campaign. [Former President Barack Obama](http://time.com/4702883/barack-obama-2017-ncaa-bracket/) appointed him to a ten year term as FBI Director in 2013. Trump also invoked [Comey’s press conference](https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system) in July 2016 where he said Hillary Clinton would not be indicted for her use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State, although he said she and her colleagues “were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.” “Don’t forget, when Jim Comey came out, he saved [Hillary Clinton,”](http://motto.time.com/4731503/hillary-clinton-medgar-evans-cuny-commencement/) Trump told Bartiromo. “People don’t realize that.” “When he was reading those charges, she was guilty on every charge,” Trump continued. “And then he said, she was essentially OK. But he — she wasn’t OK, because she was guilty on every charge.” Trump did praise Comey, however, when he announced [he was re-opening the probe](http://time.com/4549527/hillary-clinton-emails-fbi-reopen/) into Clinton’s email server in October of 2016. ## Transcript Thanks to the modern technology that's in front of me right here, I've got a tweet from the President an hour ago saying the NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence the electoral process. So that's not quite accurate that tweet. I'm sorry I haven't been following anybody on twitter while I've been sitting here. I can read it to you it says the NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral The electoral process. This tweet has gone out to millions of Americans. 16. 1 million, to be exact. Is the tweet, as I read it to, the NSA and FBI tell congress that Russia did not influence the electoral process, is that accurate? [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Well It's hard for me to react to it, let me just tell you what we understand that the state of, what we've said is. We've offered no opinion, have no view, have no information on potential impact, because it's never something that we looked at. Okay. So it's not too far of a logical leap to conclude that your, that the assertion that you have told the Congress That there was no influence on the electoral process is not quite right. Right, it wasn't, it certainly wasn't our attention to say that today because we don't have any information on that subject. I mean, that's not something that was look at. 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