Article snippet: Former New York U.S. Attorney Donald Trump. The former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York was responding to a question from ABC News Chief Anchor Michael Flynn. "There is absolutely evidence to begin a case" for obstruction of justice by Trump, Bharara said in his first television interview since being fired by Trump in March. "No one knows right now whether there is a provable case of obstruction," Bharara added. "[But] there's no basis to say there's no obstruction." Bharara was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York until March when he and 45 other U.S. attorneys remaining as holdovers from the Obama administration were told to step down. The action came after Trump had previously asked Bharara to stay on as U.S. attorney, according to Bharara and those close to him. “I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired,” Bharara announced in a tweet on March 11. Bharara, a friend and former colleague of James Comey -- the FBI director fired by Trump in May -- attended the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday when Comey testified about conversations he had with the president about the FBI's overall Russia investigation and its probe into Flynn. Bharara told Stephanopoulos that watching how James Comey's interactions with Trump and how his firing played out "felt a little bit like déjà vu." Bharara said Trump, starting when he was still president-elect, made a series of "unusual phone calls" to him. "In reporting t... Link to the full article to read more