"I want that thing to be absolutely done properly", Trump said of the investigation, though - despite the intelligence community's conclusions - three times he qualified Russia's involvement with "if".
The Trump administration has said Comey's firing was unrelated to the Russian Federation investigation.
Everything the White House has said about the President's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey has been wrong. McCabe told senators he could not comment on conversations between Comey and the president.
Trump's advisers have repeatedly tried to downplay the Russia-election matter, with Sanders saying Wednesday the FBI was "doing a whole lot more than the Russian Federation investigation".
Some Democratic senators said they believed the reports to be true, although a Justice Department spokeswoman rejected them as "totally false".
"We had a very nice dinner at the White House very early on".
"He's a showboat", Trump alleged in an interview with NBC's Lester Holt.
Said Trump: "In one case I asked him..."
Mr Trump also revealed to NBC News it was his decision to sack Mr Comey.
"I was going to fire regardless of recommendation", Trump told Holt. He said: "'You are not under investigation'".
That's far different that the White House's initial account in the hours after Comey's firing.
"He's a showboat. He's a grandstander".
New Orleans school warns parents of Confederate statue removal
He wants to question the papers that he says show that City Park and not the city of New Orleans , owns the Beauregard monument. The Liberty Place monument was taken down without advance notice in the dead of night by workers in masks and body armor.
The president told Holt, "The FBI has been in turmoil".
He went on to detail the occasions when Comey told him he was in the clear.
Despite the memo, the Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing anonymous White House sources, that Rosenstein had threatened to resign over the fact he had been depicted by the administration as a "prime mover of the decision to fire Comey".
One big problem, an official with direct knowledge of the matter told NBC News, was that there long had been no deputy attorney general to organize and coordinate the prosecutorial response. By Wednesday afternoon, the officials, like Trump, were saying he had in fact been considering ousting the Federal Bureau of Investigation director for months because of a lack of confidence in his ability to lead the agency.
Mr Rosenstein reportedly made his threat unless the White House conveyed that the decision began with the president, according to U.S. media.
"I'm not aware of his threatening to resign", White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
USA intelligence agencies concluded in a January report that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an effort to disrupt the election that included hacking into Democratic Party emails and leaking them, with the aim of helping Republican Trump.
"Russia must be laughing up their sleeves watching as the USA tears itself apart over a Democrat EXCUSE for losing the election", Trump tweeted May 11, according to the Examiner.
A day earlier, the committee announced it had issued subpoenas to Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, for documents related to its Russian Federation investigation.
"I want to find out if there was a problem in the election having to do with Russia", Trump said, adding, "If Russia did anything, I want to know that".
Sanders also said that the White House would "love" for the investigation "to be completed so that we can all move on".
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