Sen. Dianne FeinsteinDianne FeinsteinDeputy AG sees no need for special prosecutor on Russian Federation: report Feinstein calls for deputy AG to name special prosecutor or resign Key Senate Democrat wants hearings on Comey firing MORE (Calif.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined that call on Friday evening, arguing that "these investigations are far too important to risk disruption, delay or interference". The announcement comes the same day Mr Trump said he could name a new FBI Director as early as next week.
The White House has said Comey's firing was unrelated to the Russian Federation probe, but in the interview with NBC News on Thursday, Trump said he knew he ran the risk that by firing Comey he would "confuse people" and "lengthen out the investigation" into ties to Russian Federation.
Democrats cast the decision to fire Comey as an effort to obstruct the FBI's probe, a charge the White House has denied.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer later said Mr Trump had nothing more to say on the "tapes" but that the tweet the president had put out was "not a threat" to Mr Comey.
But in an interview on Thursday, Trump said he was planning to fire Comey regardless of what the Justice Department recommended.
Comey again promised his "honesty", but did not pledge loyalty, the Times reported.
A memo from Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was initially used by the White House as a justification for Trump's firing of Comey.
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No date has been set as yet for Mr Comey's public testimony or any announcement of whether the Senate committee would be willing to hold the hearing publicly.
Jeff Mason, the president of the White House Correspondents' Association, said: "Doing away with briefings would reduce accountability, transparency, and the opportunity for Americans to see that, in the USA system, no political figure is above being questioned".
But Mr. Trump told Fox News he would not discuss the possibility his conversations with Comey may have been recorded.
Mr Spicer later said that the president had not asked for a pledge of loyalty. It's not clear yet whether Trump has any recordings of the conversation that took place. It was Trump's first public event outside the White House since Comey's ouster.
The decision is subject to confirmation by the U.S. Senate, where Republicans have a majority. He questioned whether his administration should cancel all future press briefings and, instead, replace them with written responses to questions, "for the sake of accuracy".
Huckabee Sanders isn't the only White House official who has posted tweets about FBI investigations that are very awkward in hindsight.
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