It's easy to see him taking Comey's nausea comment as an affront.
Trump maintains Comey told him that he was not under investigation, but McCabe suggested under questioning that was highly improbable.
Holt pushed back, noting that in the letter to Comey, Trump wrote that he was acting on a recommendation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Rosenstein.
The White House said Trump is weighing options for replacing Comey, a decision that could have broad implications for the future of the Russian Federation investigation.
Mr Comey informed lawmakers of that request after the Senate intelligence committee, conducting its own investigation, had asked the FBI to speed up its Russian Federation inquiry, the source said.
President Donald Trump's approval with American voters has slipped in recent weeks, including among key groups that helped to fuel his electoral win previous year, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.
Trump, who met Russia's foreign minister at the White House on Wednesday, defended his abrupt firing of Comey from a law-enforcement post he had held since 2013, saying he had not been doing a good job. You know that, I know that.
A day earlier, a White House spokesman had downplayed the importance of the probe, which is being conducted concurrently with the Senate committee's investigation and that of two other congressional panels.
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Warner, the ranking democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he believes Trump would be "better served" if he supported the intelligence community, rather than questioning the integrity of its leaders.
On Capitol Hill, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe strongly disputed the White House's assertion that Comey had been fired in part because he had lost the confidence of the FBI's rank-and-file.
McCabe told senators it is not standard FBI practice to tell someone he or she is or isn't under investigation. "I can tell you also that Director Comey enjoyed broad support within the Federal Bureau of Investigation and still does to this day".
The White House refused Wednesday to provide any evidence or greater detail.
"In fact when I chose to just do it, I said to myself, I said you know, this Russian Federation thing with Trump and Russian Federation is a made-up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won", he said. "You can not stop the men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution".
Imagine an alternate reality in which Comey testified Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, answering questions on the probe he was overseeing into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and any evidence of links to Trump's campaign, instead of puttering in his yard, where reporters saw him the day after he learned he was sacked from an aide who saw it on TV.
At one point during that presser, a reporter asked Huckabee Sanders, "Isn't it true that the President had already chose to fire James Comey, and he asked the Justice Department to put together the rationale for that firing?"
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