Trump fired Comey on Tuesday, and the president said in an NBC News exclusive interview on Thursday that he had been planning to do so regardless of what the Department of Justice recommended.
Trump said in an interview this week that he and Comey had dinner a week after his inauguration, and the president described the conversation as Comey asking him to keep him in his job.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will brief the full Senate this week amid controversy over President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey.
That's why, for all of the chatter about Republican members of Congress who expressed concerns over Comey's firing, the statement that may matter the most came from that Committee's Chairman, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley.
The embattled White House spokesman Sean Spicer - who had been off for a few days on Naval Reserve duty - returned to the podium Friday, where he faced a grilling from reporters. But Trump has had a long history of secretly recording meetings in his business, associates told The Washington Post.
Among the group are the current acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, veteran Republican Senator John Cornyn, former federal prosecutor Michael Garcia, former presidential adviser Fran Townsend, Republican former congressman and FBI agent Mike Rogers, and Trey Gowdy, who led a congressional panel that probed the attacks on a United States compound in Benghazi, Libya in 2012.
After Trump chose to fire Comey, he was told by aides that Democrats would likely react positively to the news given the role many believe Comey played in Hillary Clinton's defeat a year ago. McCabe also disputed the White House's claim that the Russian Federation investigation was low priority.
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Swansea will not want to be in this sort of trouble again, that is the challenge now for Clement, but for now they can celebrate. Hull have been in and out of the Premier League in the last seven years, after they were promoted in 2008.
"We've got to address that", said Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings, referring to Trump's behaviour with Comey, including the report that the president asked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation director's loyalty.
Durbin added that Trump's tweet on Friday "could be construed as threatening a witness in this investigation, which is another violation of federal law".
Vice President Mike Pence said the move, which followed the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, was the "right decision at the right time". But he wound up creating new headaches for the White House, including with an apparent threat to Comey.
"Almost all of them are very well-known; they've been vetted over their lifetime, essentially".
"I think, in many ways, our institutions are under assault, both externally - and that's the big news here, is the Russian interference in our election system", Clapper said "I think as well our institutions are under assault internally".
The president insinuated in a tweet last week that he might have recordings of private conversations he held with Comey. There is no set number of finalists that the President has pledged to interview personally.
The letter released by the White House, dated March 8, said the tax returns did not reflect any Trump income from Russian sources, aside from money earned during the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow and the 2008 sale of a Florida estate to a Russian billionaire.
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