President Donald Trump said fired FBI Director James Comey lied in his Senate testimony and that he would be willing to testify under oath that he didn't demand a pledge of personal loyalty from Comey. "Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication", Trump wrote, suggesting that Comey had committed perjury.
In an interview Monday on Fox News' "Fox & Friends", Ivanka Trump says political life still surprises her and that "there is a level of viciousness I was not expecting". Thursday night, the network was forced to issue a correction after it reported-for two days straight-that once under oath, Comey would dispute the President's claims that Comey had assured him he was not under FBI investigation.
Comey delivered scathing remarks about the president on Thursday at a congressional hearing and testified that Trump had asked him to drop a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into former aide Michael Flynn and his alleged ties to Russian Federation.
For the past month, Trump and his aides have repeatedly stonewalled on whether the president actually routinely had his White House conversations recorded - a practice that ended amid the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
We knew that already - Mr Comey leaked details of the meetings several weeks ago - and Committee Republicans sought on Thursday to paint it as an innocent exchange: "I hope" was not an instruction, they said.
The former FBI director also appeared to confirm Trump's statements that, on three occasions, Comey told the president he was not personally under investigation with regard to Russian Federation.
Senator James Risch (R-ID) questioned Comey early in the hearing about the possibility of obstruction of justice regarding the investigation of General Michael Flynn.
The team is also expected to file a submission with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Columbia Law School's website became overburdened after Comey said he had asked a good friend who is a professor there to leak memos from his meeting with Trump to the media.
In the hearing Thursday, Comey said he woke up "in the middle of the night on Monday night", May 15, "because it didn't dawn on me originally, there might be corroboration, a tape".
In his testimony to Congress on Thursday, Mr Comey laid bare on Capitol Hill months of distrust of the president, asserting that Mr Trump had fired him to interfere with the probe of Russia's ties to the Trump campaign.
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Risch: You may have taken it as a direction, but that's not what he said.
"No I didn't say that", Trump insisted.
"I hardly know the man", Trump said.
Under oath, the former Federal Bureau of Investigation director also told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the president had asked him during a one-one dinner at the White House to pledge loyalty.
Comey's calm demeanour and the release in advance of his written statement belie the seriousness of what has been alleged.
Trump's aides have dodged questions about whether conversations relevant to the Russian Federation investigation have been recorded, and so did the president, in series of teases. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
"In his oral testimony, he made it clearer that he believed Trump was trying to obstruct justice". Mr Comey was leading that probe.
Former FBI Director James Comey told senators in a closed hearing this afternoon that Attorney General Jeff Sessions may have had a third interaction with Russia's ambassador to the United States, according to people familiar with the briefing.
"Comey is going to dispute the president on this point if he's asked about it by senators, and we have to assume that he will be", Borger told one panel.
Then, in what many seem to consider the hearing's most important moment, Comey admitted that Trump's sentence was not an explicit order.
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