"[Trump] is out of control", the former official continued, adding that what the president has done "goes against core American values".
Trump said in an interview with NBC News Thursday that Comey told him once at dinner and twice over the telephone that he wasn't under investigation.
The White House Correspondents' Association responded to the tweets with a statement from President Jeff Mason saying that the briefings "provide substantive and symbolic opportunities for journalists to pose questions to officials at the highest levels of the USA government".
Back in January, when Sean Spicer debuted in his role as White House press secretary, I gave him a total of three weeks on the job before President Trump fired him.
When he testified Monday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, along with ousted Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, Clapper also appeared to cast doubt on the president's interpretation of his comments when he said he "was not aware of the counterintelligence investigation Director Comey first referred to during his testimony before the House intelligence committee on March 20th".
"Relish the opportunity to be an outsider", Trump said.
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CNN said Comey is "not anxious about any tapes" Trump may have, citing an unnamed source familiar with the matter.
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They said that they are also requesting "all documents, memoranda, analyses, emails, and other communications relating to the President's decision to dismiss Director Comey" and asked that McGahn respond to them by May 25.
"There was no evidence that rose to that level, at that time, that found its way in to the intelligence community assessment, which we had pretty high confidence in", the former director of national intelligence said of collusion between Trump campaign aides and Russians, referring also to the USA intelligence assessment that Russia tried to influence the presidential election in favor of Trump. Russian Federation denies the claims and the White House says there was no collusion.
"As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with flawless accuracy!" he tweeted early Friday morning. "Did he order Comey to end the investigation?"
It is likely Mr Comey will be asked about the Russian Federation probe and possibly Mr Trump's claim on Twitter that there were recordings of the pair's conversations, a comment which the president has refused to elaborate upon.
"They've been vetted over their lifetime, essentially, but very well-known, high-respected, really talented people", Trump said.
President Donald Trump's administration offered a few explanations about why FBI Director James Comey was sacked. Trump wrote. "Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future "press briefings" and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???"
-Byron Tau contributed to this article.
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