To his left, Trump just nodded. "It's clear Trump didn't do anything wrong".
Though some are privately concerned, and frustration is regularly voiced about the president's undisciplined administration and the distractions he creates, Republicans have scant incentive to abandon him now.
Outraged Democrats argued that Comey had laid out all the elements of an obstruction of justice case, even as Democratic leaders tried to tamp down calls for impeachment coming from some liberals, including some members of Congress. Chances that Republicans themselves would initiate or even consider impeachment proceedings were zero, and that will change only if the Justice Department special counsel on the case, Robert Mueller, delivers a verdict they can not ignore whenever his investigation concludes.
Standing with the president of Romania, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation partner, Trump at last confirmed his commitment to the alliance's mutual defense pact, Article 5, uttering words he deliberately did not say when he spoke at NATO's gathering in Belgium last month.
The Russia investigation is now being handled by a high-powered special prosecutor.
During a news conference with the President of Romania on Friday, the Washington Times' Dave Boyer asked Trump how the President was "vindicated" by Comey's testimony - as he claimed on Twitter on Friday morning - given that Comey's testimony boiled down to "his word against your word".
"It appears that Bob Mueller is recruiting the smartest and most seasoned professionals who have a long track record of independence and excellence", added Bharara.
And former acting U.S. solicitor general Neal Katyal, who is a partner at Hogan Lovells and one of the lead attorneys for Hawaii in the travel ban lawsuit against Trump, agrees that the choice of Dreeben is telling. "If he is telling the truth, that means the president has lied about it and that is a further indication he may not be fit to be president of the United States".
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"It had been characterized one way, but we had some reason to believe that wasn't the case", Franken said on MSNBC. His most recent book is "The Devil's Pleasure Palace". During the 12 years he led the Federal Bureau of Investigation, agents knew never to wear anything but a suit, white shirt and a tie, or risk being sent away.
But a case for obstruction of justice may be building. Since there's no law against a private citizen sharing unclassified information with a reporter, there's no potential violation of the law to investigate.
A spokesperson for Mueller declined to comment. The President started gesticulating. He essentially called the president a liar and revealed that Trump demanded "loyalty" in exchange for the job.
A source tells CNN that Jay Sekulow and Michael Bowe, another attorney at Kasowitz's firm, have joined the defense team.
Trump then went on to talk about recordings of these conversations, in response to a questions, that he had first suggested in a tweet after firing Comey.
Mr Comey said Russian Federation did interfere with the election in a "sophisticated" manner, and it was an issue beyond party politics. Trump said that this was not true either. The president also said that he never asked the former FBI director to pledge his "loyalty" over the investigation, a major part of what Comey said during his testimony.
On Friday, Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski criticized Comey as not "man enough" for having leaked the memo via his friend rather than doing it himself.
"It's important for us in the West to understand that we're facing an adversary who wishes for his own reasons to do us harm", said Daniel Fried, a career diplomat who oversaw sanctions imposed on Russian Federation before retiring this year.
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