Donald Trump calls Comey 'leaker', ready to respond under oath

President Donald Trump's counsel has just two weeks to hand over, if they exist at all, recorded "tapes" of conversations Trump had with fired Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey to the House panel probing alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Dismissing key parts of Comey's damning testimony while claiming others as a win for the president, Kasowitz also suggested Comey may face prosecution.

Meanwhile, legislators continued their push to access Comey's memos. He is a good guy.

Comey's detailed and vivid recollections of his one-on-one conversations with Trump were revealed in seven pages of prepared testimony released Wednesday, the day before his appearance before the Senate intelligence committee.

"I would be glad to tell him exactly what I just told you, Jon", Trump responded.

Comey added to the committee, "And my judgment was I needed to get that out into the public square". And he acknowledged doing so with the hope of triggering the appointment of a special counsel - an effort that was indeed successful in forcing the hand of the Justice Department.

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But the ex-FBI director also will validate Trump's assertion that he was not personally a target of the federal counterintelligence investigation into possible campaign collusion with Russian Federation.

"In his written opening statement, Comey recounted how at a White House dinner in January shortly after Trump assumed power, the president told him, "'I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.' I didn't move, speak or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. A special counsel was appointed the following week.

"These were unclassified notes made by Comey himself". The weight such an oath - with all its legal consequences - lends to Comey's words should be apparent to everyone.

However, Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor, said Comey's decision to leak the memo was "deeply troubling from a professional and ethical standpoint".

"Lordy, I hope there are tapes", he said.

Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, disagreed. "He's new at government", Mr Ryan said.

"I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting and so I thought it really important to document", Mr Comey said. "He's being totally above board about it, and if anybody wants to say that's wrong, he is standing by his actions". Even Comey's boss, the attorney general, was kicked out.

But after stepping away from the Capitol Hill spotlight, where he's always seemed comfortable, the 56-year-old veteran lawman now confronts the same question long faced by Washington officials after their government service.

He defied FBI norms by making public pronouncements about the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, including during the campaign's final days, drawing the ire of those who believe he tipped the electoral scales to Trump. CNN had the top spot among adults between the ages of 25 and 54 and came in a close third with 3.05 million viewers.

That he would have another star turn came with little surprise, according to Tobe Berkovitz, a political media consultant who now teaches at Boston University. Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday that he had turned over his copy to Mueller, although he said that his friend, Columbia Law School Professor Daniel C. Richman, might still have the memos and that he would encourage him to release them.