Mr Trump denied having asked for Mr Comey's loyalty or for an inquiry into his former national security adviser to be dropped.
Trump was also asked about Comey's testimony and the supposed tapes the following day during his joint press conference with the president of Romania. "I will tell you about it over a very short period of time", Trump said, twice declining to elaborate. Trump, during a May 25 speech in Brussels, refused to affirm his commitment to Article 5, though he praised the alliance's quick response to the 9/11 attacks ― the only time in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation history Article 5 has been invoked.
The Committee requested the documents by June 23.
US President Donald Trump punched back Friday against James Comey, accusing the ousted Federal Bureau of Investigation director of lying about their private conversations - and saying he is "100 percent" willing to testify under oath. Trump refused to say definitively if his private conversations with Comey were taped.
While the president affirmed the U.S.'s commitment to Article 5, he did not answer whether or not he would move the U.S.to defend a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally if the attack came from Russian Federation. "I can definitely say the president is not a liar", White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday, before calling the question "insulting". But he said the USA would abide by its treaty obligations. It was a forceful endorsement of this week's move by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to cut off ties to Qatar, but a very different message from the one delivered just an hour before by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Trump's commitment to Article 5 came as a great relief to NATO's members from Eastern Europe, who are all greatly concerned with an increasingly aggressive Russian policy of expansionism that saw President Vladimir Putin's forces march into the Ukraine in 2014.
The president ducked twice when asked whether he had recorded his chats with Comey, as he had once suggested.
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Former FBI Director James Comey's Senate hearing has served only to intensify Sen. The GOP still needs Donald Trump if it has any hope of accomplishing its legislative agenda and winning elections, and it's going to take more than James Comey's testimony to shake them.
It all underscored what's become a hardening dynamic of the Trump presidency: Republicans on Capitol Hill and off are mostly sticking with the president despite the mounting scandals and seemingly endless crises that surround him.
Pundits and legal experts were divided about whether Trump's actions rose to the level of obstruction of justice, a potentially impeachable offense.
On Friday, the National Law Journal reported that Mueller had enlisted Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Michael Dreeben, one of the most highly respected lawyers in the Justice Department, to work part time on the special counsel team.
Richard Burr, the Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, and Sen.
"You're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer, don't worry", Trump said.
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