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saying publicly that Flynn had not talked about that because Flynn had told him that.

Mr. Comey. Our concern was -- and Mr. Gowdy asked me about the Logan Act. That was not my focus, as I recall, at the time; that I gather there was a statute that prohibited private citizens and all that but that it wasn't something that had been prosecuted in 100 years, and so that was not our focus.

Our focus was it appeared that the National Security Advisor was lying to the Vice President about his communications with the Russians, and that made no sense to us, and we wanted to understand what is happening here.

Mr. Jordan. But my point is you knew his conversation -- you knew what his conversation was with the Russian Ambassador. And I'm asking, on its face, was there anything in that conversation that was wrong?

Mr. Comey. And I hesitate only with "wrong." I think a Department of Justice prosecutor might say, on its face, it was problematic under the Logan Act because of private citizens negotiating and all that business. That was not my focus at the time, as I recall.

Mr. Jordan. The day before you sent two agents over to interview General Flynn, there's a story in The Washington Post.

Maybe we can give the Director a copy of that story. Can we get a copy of that?

And I just want to read the first sentence in the story.