Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr pushed back against anonymous allegations in a New York Times report alleging President Donald Trump asked former FBI director James Comey to shut down an investigation into embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn



Burr said: "Somebody is going to have to do more than just have anonymous sources on this one for me to believe that there’s something there."



Sen. Burr (R-N.C.) told PBS NewsHour’s Lisa Desjardins Tuesday night that "the director of the FBI shared more information with Mr. Warner and myself than any director has ever shared" but he never shared anything about the allegations in the Times article.



"I think something as material as that, probably would have been something he would have shared, had it happened," Burr said. "But, given that we were the last to meet with him before his departure, the last thing I think Director Comey was thinking about Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock when we met with him was that the next day he was going to get fired."