President Donald Trump's outside counsel will file a leak complaint regarding former FBI Director James Comey's leaked memos with the Department of Justice, a source close to the outside legal team tells NBC News.
Under oath on Thursday, Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he consciously decided to make the memo detailing Trump's request unclassified. Comey sat before the microphone less than five months into Donald Trump's first term.
The attorney also denied Comey's statement that Trump, at a White House dinner, told the then-FBI director "I need loyalty, I expect loyalty", and that Trump asked him in an Oval Office meeting to drop an Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
TRUMP: 100 percent. I didn't say "under oath", I hardly know the man, I'm not gonna say "I want you to pledge allegiance", who would do that, who would ask a man to pledge allegiance under oath?
But Trump repeatedly refused to say whether or not he'd secretly recorded his conversations with Comey, as he suggested in a tweet.
"Well, I'll tell you about that maybe sometime in the very near future".
Detailing one-on-one talks with a sitting president - which under normal circumstances are private - Comey said he took painstaking notes for fear Trump might "lie" about the unusual encounters.
The president and his lawyer have both said that the testimony served primarily as vindication that he - President Trump - wasn't being investigated for collusion with Russian Federation during the election.
He said he would also welcome news of tapes of his conversations with Trump, saying, "Lordy, I hope there are tapes".
"I didn't say that", Trump said Friday.
But, Comey testified, Trump did not ask him to drop the FBI's broader investigation into Russian Federation meddling in the 2016 election and whether Trump's campaign helped.
Karl, it seems, is one of those Fake News Network Killers-"Remember how nice you used to be before I ran?"
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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. Dianne Feinstein of California asked, "Why didn't you stop and say, 'Mr".
But he left aside scathing testimony by Comey, whom he fired in early May, that Trump had tried to derail a probe into onetime national security advisor Michael Flynn - at best, a political miscalculation by a tradition-shredding president, and at worst, a criminal obstruction of justice. Trump tweeted on May 12. Comey also bluntly accused the White House of spreading "lies, plain and simple".
"I think he's proven himself to be a liar in all of this".
After staying off Twitter during Comey's testimony on Thursday, Trump began Friday with a sharp critique of the man he fired last month.
Comey also revealed that he'd orchestrated the public release of information about his private conversations with the president in an effort to further the investigation.
Comey's testimony, at a hugely anticipated hearing that captured the country's attention, provided a gripping account of his interactions with Trump and underscored the discord that had soured their relationship.
"You and I are friends: "Hey, I hope this happens, but you've got to do your job".
Other key moments include the "tapes" tweet, and a tweet accusing President Obama of ordering an illegal wiretap of Trump Tower during the presidential campaign. Today was a big corner piece in the puzzle of the Trump presidency, but the full picture has yet to come into focus.
"It's a great question", Comey replied.
MARTIN: So what exactly from James Comey's testimony made the case?
Burr asked Comey about that Thursday.
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