CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin doubled down on his claim that President Trump obstructed justice when he asked former FBI Director James Comey to let go of the probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

“I think it’s even clearer this is an obstruction of justice,” Toobin told CNN’s “New Day” Friday after hearing Comey’s testimony.

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“When you look particularly at that Feb. 14 meeting in the Oval Office, where he shoos everyone out of the Oval Office, which is what prosecutors call consciousness of guilt, and then asked the FBI director to drop the investigation of Michael Flynn, that to me is just a classic obstruction of justice in the mold of Watergate,” he said.

Toobin’s comments come a day after Comey delivered blockbuster testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he confirmed having a February meeting alone with the president, where Trump asked him to drop the investigation into Flynn.

“And if you have any doubt about that, when Comey declines to drop the investigation, what happens? He gets fired because of that,” he continued.

Toobin originally tweeted on Wednesday that Comey’s testimony established Trump had obstructed justice after he released his released his opening testimony to the public.