Questioned about Comey's central claim that Trump told him to lay off Flynn, the president responded: "I didn't say that".
TRUMP: I would be glad to tell him exactly what I just told you.
"I don't think it's for me to say whether the conversation I had with the president was an effort to obstruct". Soon after the news conference, the House Intelligence Committee wrote to the White House to request copies, by June 23, of any recordings - "to the extent they exist now" - of conversations between Comey and Trump.
Key points such as whether Mr Trump implied Mr Comey would keep his job if the "cloud" of the Russian Federation probe lifted, or whether the president asked Mr Comey to drop the investigation into fired NSA Advisor Michael Flynn, remain one man's word against the other.
Trump, though, tweeted in the morning that Comey uttered "so many false statements and lies" - while also claiming "vindication".
"I can definitively say the president is not a liar, and I think it's frankly insulting that question would be asked", spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
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. You have to run up the whole East Coast, and you have to win everything as a Republican, and that's what we did. Earlier Friday, he retweeted a post from Alan Dershowitz, a prominent lawyer and Harvard professor, who said there was "no plausible case" for obstruction of justice and that "we must distinguish crimes from" political "sins".
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Over a fairly short period of time.
Trump would not answer directly when asked if he had recorded his conversations with Comey, though he threatened Comey on Twitter with the prospect of "tapes".
In his first response to Comey's blunt remarks, Trump offered a window into how the White House may try to contain the controversy that has dogged his administration for months - accusations that his campaign team colluded with Moscow to tilt the 2016 election in his favor. In the same answer, he drew attention to the "significant" fact that Trump kicked everyone out of the room before allegedly expressing the "hope"-which was read as a directive-that Comey would let the Flynn investigation "go".
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The DUP is expected to consider a confidence and supply arrangement with the Conservative party rather than a formal coalition. The single reason Mrs May said she called the election was to strengthen her position in negotiating a good Brexit deal .
"That was an excuse by the Democrats, who lost an election they shouldn't have lost", he said.
Comey wanted to prevent the appointment of a special counsel for Hillary Clinton, who was the subject of an FBI investigation, but he wanted to "prompt" the appointment of a special counsel for President Trump, who was not the subject of an FBI investigation.
A Gallup poll conducted in April found that just 36 percent of Americans found Trump "honest and trustworthy" - down from 42 percent in February.
In the wake of Comey's testimony and Trump's rebuttal, the American public has been left with the hard decision. The president rebutted that exchange, saying it made "no sense" because "I hardly know the man".
It's one man's word against another's - one being the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whom many GOP lawmakers have worked with and respect, and the other being the sitting president of the United States.
Trump and his outside attorney, Marc Kasowitz, have zeroed in on this and lambasted Comey for ordering the "leaks".
"It's no secret to anybody that this president is not experienced in the ways of Washington, of how these investigations work", said GOP Sen.
The White House has avoided all questions about whether such tapes exist.
Iohannis offered support for Trump's position Friday, saying to Trump, "I'm very glad that due to your strong leadership North Atlantic Treaty Organisation made a decision to go against terrorism".
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