He also said that directive, combined with Lynch's unusual Arizona tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton, led him to make his independent announcement regarding the Clinton email probe last July.
"Feinstein: "I can't answer that".
She said the Senate Judiciary Committee should look into that, um, matter, but she also jumped back to talking about the seriousness of the Russian Federation investigation and what President Trump told Comey in their private conversations.
Instead, the senator flummoxed Mr Comey with a question about why "the investigation of anything former secretary Clinton had to do with the campaign is over and we don't have to worry about it any more?".
He also said he believed Attorney General Jeff Sessions's continued oversight of the Russian Federation investigation would be "problematic" and that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch directed him to call the probe into Hillary Clinton's emails a "matter" rather than an investigation.
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Eithier was followed to the stand by Olivia Mosolgo, who was familiar with Carter, having met her when they were in seventh grade. Get what you need today in this early-morning email. "Your Honor, this case is a suicide case".
"And there's only way to know about it, and that's to have the Judiciary Committee take a look at that", Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said.
Trump denied that he had asked Comey for his loyalty, though, adding, "There would be nothing wrong if I did say it".
During Thursday's hearing McCain apparently failed to understand the difference in timescale regarding the two separate investigations and was reminded by Comey that the Clinton email probe is over.
Feinstein said she also believes the committee should hear from officials Comey said he spoke with about his interactions with Trump, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who is now the acting director of the bureau. Graham, South Carolina Republican and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "And again, you look back in hindsight, and you think should I have resisted harder", he explained.
"One hundred percent", Trump said when asked about his willingness to deliver sworn testimony, CNN reported Trump, as saying during a Rose Garden news conference. "But I also know that there's another part of this, and that part should not be given short shrift, and it has to do with the Department of Justice".
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