"I've talked to the president" about that tweet, Spicer said.
He says Comey mentioned that he had been invited to have dinner with Trump and was "uneasy with it".
Mason: Does he think it's appropriate to threaten someone like Mr. Comey not to speak?
Fewer than 48 hours after taking over, McCabe testified in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asserting that Comey's firing by President Donald Trump has had no impact on an ongoing Russian Federation investigation. Comey has not confirmed Trump's account, which concerns the FBI's probe of Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election and allegations of Trump campaign collaboration with the Russians. The ousted director has told associates he was summoned to the White House for a one-on-one dinner with Trump just seven days after the January 20 inauguration, according to the paper.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House spokesperson and daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, denied the report to A.P. and other outlets.
The first line of Mr Trump's letter sacking Mr Comey refers to a memo written by Mr Rosenstein and says: "I have accepted their recommendation". Trump said in a string of Twitter posts on Friday morning.
The White House said Mr Comey was sacked over his handling of the Hillary Clinton email affair, but Democrats have asked, if that is the case, why it took so long.
Duke said the more interesting question is why Trump keeps piling one deception atop another: "Trump knows there are no tapes of his conversations with Comey; that's why he can falsely claim that Comey assured him that he was not under investigation".
Asked whether anyone in the White House had an audio recording of the dinner, as Trump suggested in a tweet earlier on Friday, Spicer said: "I'm not aware of that". "I would find that very inconsistent with what I know of Jim Comey", Clapper told MSNBC, adding it would have been "out of character for him to ask to stay on".
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The president is entering a legally risky area, said Nick Ackerman, an assistant Watergate prosecutor and former assistant USA attorney for NY. Trump said Comey wanted to have the dinner because he wanted to stay on in the job.
Mr Trump also said this week that he alone was responsible for the decision to sack Mr Comey, calling him a "showboat" and "grandstander".
"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", Mr Trump said. Comey declined and said that he would be "honest" with the president.
During the dinner, the president asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation director to pledge loyalty to him, the Times reported. McCabe told a Senate panel it was not "standard practice" to tell an individual whether they are or are not under investigation. "Today, if the president sends a tweet, it's technically a public record". The ousted director himself is said to be confident that his own version of events will come out, possibly in an appearance before Congress, according to an associate who has been in touch with him since his firing Tuesday. Comey found the allegations confounding, according to his associate, and wondered what to make of what he described as unusual thoughts coming from his new boss.
The intelligence community's comments were also twisted by White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway.
"I'm not going to spend time on the decision or the way it was executed". That's far different from the White House's initial account in the hours after Comey's firing.
The No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, Richard Durbin, went further on Friday and said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should appoint an independent special prosecutor to pursue possible criminal charges in relation to Comey's firing, although he did not specify if he meant such charges should be against Trump. "And as a effect, I was not aware of the counterintelligence investigation Director Comey first referred to during his testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee for Intelligence on the 20th of March, and that comports with my public statements".
Appearing at a downtown news conference, U.S. Reps. McCabe characterized the investigation as "highly significant" and assured senators that Comey's firing would not hinder it.
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