Collins said she believed Comey did tell the truth in his testimony, in which he recounted his conversation with Trump about Flynn, but she also allowed for the possibility "there was a misinterpretation".
Chuck Schumer, responding to Trump's statement Friday that he would "100 percent" speak under oath about the Comey affair, said he would like the president to testify in public before the Senate. Comey said he had hoped releasing the information via the media would prompt the appointment of a special counsel to handle the Russian Federation probe, a ploy that ultimately proved successful.
"I think the main point that people should be focusing on... is that you have, you have uncontroverted from someone who was under oath that on at least one occasion, the president of the United States cleared a room of his vice president and his attorney general, and told his director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he should essentially drop a case against his former national security adviser", Bharara said. Trump says on Twitter, "Totally illegal?"
Sen. Susan Collins of ME says Trump had a chance to settle the matter when he held a news conference Friday at the White House, but didn't.
U.S. correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking Trump rejects those allegations.
Man threatens to blow up outbound Melbourne plane
In a statement , Malaysia Airlines said following the incident, all passengers had safely disembarked the aircraft. Travellers were only ten minutes into their journey when a mentally-ill passenger stated that he had a bomb .
"Comey testified last week that the President, in a private conversation with Comey, asked the FBI boss to let go the agency's investigation into Mike Flynn, Trump's ousted national security adviser".
Comey said he believed Trump fired him because of the Russian Federation investigation, and Trump himself cited "this Russian Federation thing" as a motivating factor for his decision to sack Comey during an interview with broadcaster NBC that aired last month.
Comey was leading the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election when Trump fired him last month.
Sessions has recused himself from a federal investigation into contacts between Russia and the Trump campaign after acknowledging that he had met twice a year ago with the Russian ambassador to the US. Comey "leaking his own memos to manipulate the system is exactly why people dislike the swamp", said Trump ally Newt Gingrich. During his campaign, Trump often said it was time to "drain the swamp" in Washington of corrupt and self-dealing insiders.
He added that if the special counsel leading the investigation into Russian Federation meddling in the USA election and possible ties to Trump associates "has got evidence of collusion, bring it forward". But I can't imagine that that issue is going to arise. Schumer spoke on CBS' "Face the Nation". More seriously, former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer voiced the growing concern among Trump allies that the president is digging himself into a legal hole, offering this advice to the president:"You have not been vindicated. Stop talking. You're heading into a giant perjury trap", Fleischer wrote on Twitter Sunday morning.
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