The Trump-Comey He Said-He Said Is Now Officially On

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Shortly afterwards, a personal lawyer for President Trump returned fire, suggesting the ousted lawman should be prosecuted for leaking "privileged information".

Mr Comey said he spoke with Mr Trump on numerous occasions and said that if the president had recorded those conversations, he hoped the President would make them available. I don't think you did anything wrong. "Who would do that?" MORE: Analysis - Comey goes nuclear in showdown with TrumpHe said that he'd carefully documented his interactions with Trump because he anxious Trump would misrepresent them, and accused the administration of spreading "lies, plain and simple" about the reasons for his firing. I have no idea why Trump created the idea of taped conversations if he didn't have any tapes but I don't understand anything that this president does. He said that the president asked him for "loyalty" during a White House dinner and to lay off former national security advisor Mike Flynn - who is under criminal investigation - imploring Comey to "let this go".

Congressional investigators have asked the White House to provide any recordings or notes of conversations between Donald Trump and former FBI Director James Comey. Karl wanted to know whether Trump agreed with Comey's account of their conversation.

"Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication...and WOW, Comey is a leaker!" the President wrote.

Burr noted that a day before the public hearing with Comey (which was followed by a closed door session), the committee met with Director of National Intelligence Daniel R. Coats, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, National Security Agency Director Admiral Michael Rogers and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in open session.

"If Mueller investigates whether Trump's interactions with Comey - including firing him - constitute obstruction of justice then Rosenstein would have to recuse himself from that matter", she said. "Lordy, I hope there are tapes", Mr Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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Comey said he did not discuss Trump's pressure to drop the probe into Flynn with the attorney general because the Federal Bureau of Investigation leadership team believed Sessions would later recuse himself from the Russian Federation probe, which he did.

"I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting, so I thought it really important to document", he said. The Comey-centered questions emanating from the American press corps alternated with wider-ranging queries from the travelling press.

"It didn't dawn on me originally that there might be corroboration for our conversation".

"It's my judgment that I was sacked because of the Russian Federation investigation", he told senators.

Comey made clear that he'd be more than happy to go to the tape.

"And there would be nothing wrong with it if I did say it, according to everything that I've read today", Trump added, which didn't exactly help his case that he didn't say it. The bad cop was Corey Lewandowski, apparently back in Trump's good graces, dispatched to the morning shows on Friday to explain that Comey was part of "the deep state" that is out to humiliate Trump. "Don't get in the way of an investigation that could actually clear you", Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News on Wednesday.