The high-stakes struggle between President Trump and fired FBI Director James Comey is our top story again tonight.
Sources said that despite being called a liar by the man he fired during yesterday's three-hour Senate intelligence committee grilling, Mr Trump was relieved at the outcome. During the news conference, Trump said he would have more information related to whether tapes exist at a later date.
Mr Kasowitz says President Trump's team will "leave it the appropriate authorities" to determine whether the leak should be investigated. Trump said Friday that he'd be willing to testify under oath "one hundred percent".
Kathleen Clark, an expert in government ethics at the University of Washington Law School, said there are a number of rules that protect the president's conversations with aides, but that none of them apply here.
He told reporters: 'I'll tell you about that maybe sometime in the near future, ' adding cryptically: 'You're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer, don't worry'. "This reminds me of the taping system...that Richard Nixon had - you remember that issue went all the way to the Supreme Court, and the president was ordered to turn over the tapes".
The House intelligence committee has asked White House counsel Don McGahn whether any tape recordings or memos of Mr Comey's conversations with the president exist now or had existed.
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In the congressional hearing, Mr Comey testified that Mr Trump told him on January 26 that he expected loyalty from the Federal Bureau of Investigation director and the next month urged him to drop the probe into Mr Flynn, the president's former security adviser.
At Thursday's hearing, the following statement by Mr. Comey was, in my view, the most devastating evidence that the president obstructed justice in the Flynn investigation. And in a closed-door session that followed, Comey reportedly told senators that Sessions had a third, previously undisclosed interaction with Russia's ambassador to the U.S., CNN reports.
"It was just an excuse, but we were very, very happy, and frankly, James Comey confirmed a lot of what I said, and some of the things that he said just weren't true". Four members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein, had set a Friday deadline for Richman to respond after Comey testified that he gave the memo to him and asked him to anonymously disclose it to the media in an attempt to prompt the naming of a special counsel. "I would be glad to tell him exactly what I just told you".
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.
The ouster came as he oversaw the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
"I think he abused power", said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. But, she said, he was wrong to leak his notes to the public and should have given that document to her panel.
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