President Donald Trump said Friday he is willing to testify under oath about his interactions with former FBI Director James Comey and accused the latter of being untruthful during his testimony in Capitol Hill on Thursday.
When asked if he would testify under oath with special counsel Robert Mueller, Trump confirmed he would. The president told him, "I hope you can let this go", and he took it as more than a mere suggestion.
Karl: Mr. President, I want to get back to James Comey's testimony. In that testimony he had already disclosed that Trump demanded his "loyalty" and directly pushed him to "lift the cloud" of investigation by declaring publicly the president was not the target of the FBI probe into his campaign's Russian Federation ties.
Comey recorded details of his meetings with Trump in personal, unclassified memos, and he said he asked a friend to provide the contents to an unnamed reporter with the New York Times.
Comey also said in his written testimony that Trump, in a unusual private encounter near the grandfather clock in the Oval Office, pushed him to end his investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. "I took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning".
Standing with the president of Romania, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation partner, Mr Trump at last confirmed his commitment to the alliance's mutual defence pact, Article 5, uttering words he deliberately did not say when he spoke at Nato's gathering in Belgium last month.
Mr Comey told Congress under oath he believed he was sacked to influence his investigation into the Trump campaign.
Comey said he shared memos of his nine conversations with Trump with investigators for Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russian Federation.
The Republican had turned to social media to hit Comey after the ex-FBI chief testified before the Senate Intelligence committee Thursday and admitted he had leaked some conversations between himself and Trump to the press, via a third party.
The February meeting was one of several one-on-one encounters that Comey said made him feel such intense discomfort that he felt compelled to document them in memos.
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While Trump's staunchest supporters have tried to paint Comey's testimony as vindication for the president, few Republicans who don't work for Trump stepped in to defend the president's version of his contacts with Comey.
Trump made the remarks during a joint news conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at the White House Friday afternoon.
The leaders of the House Russia investigation, Reps.
During nearly three hours of statements Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey described himself as "stunned" by Trump's "very disturbing" and "very concerning" behavior in several of their meetings.
Both the conversation between Trump and Comey about Flynn and the firing itself were obstructive acts, she said. Trump said "no" when asked if he demanded a loyalty pledge from Comey.
That statement stands in stark contrast to Comey's.
"I took it as a direction".
"In my experience of prosecuting cases, when a robber held a gun to somebody's head and said, "I hope you will give me your wallet, ' the word 'hope" was not the most operative word at that moment", said Harris, among those being mentioned as a possible Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. "If the White House's account differs from what we heard today, the American people deserve to hear the president's side of the story in a similar forum - under oath and open to the press".
The former Federal Bureau of Investigation director also said he suspected Trump may have been angling at their private dinner to establish a sense of obligation in Comey for allowing him to stay in his role as Federal Bureau of Investigation chief.
REP. MARK MEADOWS, R-N.C.: I think it was actually a day that vindicated the president, when you have Director Comey three times saying that he wasn't under investigation. She called Comey an "honorable individual".
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