Trump on Comey: "He's a showboat".
"You can't have the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation being judge, jury and prosecutor and I think the president felt, as I think President Obama felt but he couldn't do anything about it and as Loretta Lynch felt, you can't have the Federal Bureau of Investigation director getting out there, that's not his job, he is not speaking for the administration, and more and more Jim Comey was doing and I think it was the main reason and a lot of his statements, I can see why the President feels he came across as self-serving, that he felt nauseous that he elected Donald Trump as president, that type of thing". "I have accepted their recommendation and you are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately". It says that Trump, Rosenstein, and Sessions "discussed reasons for removing" Comey on May 8, followed by written recommendations on May 9.
"Sir, I'm not going to comment".
Making his first public appearance since Comey's firing on Tuesday, McCabe promised to tell the Senate committee if he came under pressure to shut down the investigation into possible links between Trump's associates and Russian Federation during last year's election campaign.
"I'm not going to spend time on the decision or the way it was executed". Don't you see how that's a conflict of interest? Moscow has denied any such interference and the Trump administration denies allegations of collusion with Russian Federation.
The dinner, the president said, was because Comey "wanted to stay on".
"The American people expect a president to act on the recommendations of those within the administration who are charged with oversight".
Trump then started talking like a Mafia boss who just whacked Comey. "My decision", he said, according to the BBC.
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As Jane Arraf has reported , the visit was seen as important to Egypt's Christians - who are a minority in that country. He also attended an global peace conference organized by Al-Azhar, the world's foremost seat of Sunni Islamic learning.
The president told NBC he had personally asked Comey whether he was under investigation - an admission that could expose the president to allegations of interfering with the ongoing FBI probe.
Some of Mr Trump's fellow Republicans called his dismissal of Mr Comey troubling.
His firing was recommended by the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, and the attorney general Jeff Sessions.
Mr Sessions had claimed to recuse himself from the Russian Federation investigation in March after it was revealed he met with the Kremlin's ambassador to the U.S. on at least two occasions and did not disclose those encounters while testifying before a Senate committee at his confirmation hearing.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Rosenstein asked that the White House correct the record about his role in the firing.
The anger behind Mr Trump's decision had been building for months, but a turning point came when Mr Comey refused to preview for top Trump aides his planned testimony to a Senate panel, White House officials said.
May 10, 6:46 pm: The White House provides an official "timeline" of the decision to fire Comey, sent to press via a pool report. The letters cited Comey's bungling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of private email servers. "And we think that we've actually, by removing Director Comey, taken steps to make that happen". "I'm literally in tears right now". Thank you for that gift.
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