Former FBI director James Comey said in an interview with NBC News airing Wednesday evening that he thought President Trump potentially obstructed justice when he admitted on the network that he was thinking about Russia when he axed him.

The network’s Lester Holt recreated the timeline of Comey’s firing.

“You go before the Senate Judiciary Committee, you talk about a lot of things, the Clinton email server, but you declined to answer questions specifically about evidence of collusion at that point,” Holt said to Comey.

“A couple days later you’re fired. A few days after that I sit down with President Trump, he says, ‘When I decided to just do it’ – talking about firing you – ‘I said to myself I said, “You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story.”‘ What did you think when you heard that?” asked Holt.

Comey replied: “I thought, that’s potentially obstruction of justice, and I hope somebody is gonna look at that.”

“Again the president appears to be saying, I don’t know what’s in his head, which is why I can’t reach the conclusion. What he appears to be saying is, ‘I got rid of this guy to shut down an investigation that threatened me,’ ” he said.

Special counsel Robert Mueller has cleared trump of colluding with Russia but made no conclusion about obstruction.

The interview will air on “Nightly News.”