Trump's communications team has scurried in recent days to explain the president's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. "I expect that." Trump also insisted that he didn't collude with Russian Federation, and that he wants the new director to do an investigation to prove that. Comey would also have an opportunity to go on the record and confirm or deny Trump's claim that the he told the president on three separate occasions he wasn't under investigation. Mr. Trump's initial letter gave the impression that he was acting on a recommendation from the Justice Department and that Mr. Comey was sacked for mishandling the investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails.
Trump's comments, which contradicted previous White House statements, further fueled the political and legal furor in Washington over his unceremonious sacking of Comey, who was leading an expanding FBI investigation into whether Trump's advisors cooperated with Russian intelligence agents during the presidential campaign past year.
The president is reported to have asked Comey whether he could be loyal to him during a dinner meeting in February shortly after his inauguration.
Given Trump's dismissal of the Russian Federation controversy, Holt pressed him on whether the FBI's investigation led to Comey's firing. "Now you tell me, you can go through hundreds of thousands of emails in a few days?" .
Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe sidestepped a question during a Senate hearing on Thursday on whether he ever heard Comey tell Trump that the president was not the subject of investigation.
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By Thursday, in his interview with NBC's Lester Holt, Mr. Trump was acknowledging that he made a decision to fire Mr. Comey before soliciting and receiving any recommendations and that the Clinton emails were not his motivation.
On Friday, Trump tweeted what many viewed as a threat to Comey, claiming he would release "tapes" if the ousted director started flapping his gums to the media. Trump said in a string of Twitter posts. She said legal scholars, who she didn't name, saw no issue with the president's inquiries. "I said, 'I'll consider, we'll see what happens'".
"When I chose to just do it [and fire Comey], I said you know, this Russian Federation thing with Trump and Russian Federation is a made up story", Trump said.
However, sources have told Fox News that at least one additional candidate is being interviewed Saturday - Adam Lee, the special agent in charge at the FBI's Richmond office.
A day after Sanders called the FBI's counter-intelligence investigation "probably one of the smallest things that they've got going on their plate", McCabe disagreed, calling it "a highly significant investigation".
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