A Republican member of the Senate Intelligence committee says Congress should obtain any tapes that President Donald Trump might have of his conversations with the man he fired as Federal Bureau of Investigation director - James Comey.
News said Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz will file a complaint with the Justice Department and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
During more than two hours of testimony, Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee he believed Trump had directed him to drop an FBI probe into the Republican president's former national security adviser Michael Flynn as part of the broader Russian Federation investigation.
Kasowitz disputed those points and attacked Comey for leaking "privileged communications" to the media.
And legal experts have questioned whether Comey's leak broke any law.
These developments come after Comey testified that Trump asked him to drop an investigation into former national security advisor Michael Flynn.
Trump fired Comey in May, saying "this Russian Federation thing" was on his mind when he chose to dismiss the head of the nation's top law enforcement agency while Comey was leading its probe into Russia's alleged meddling in last year's election. The Washington Post reported that the president asked Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to urge Comey to lay off Flynn and that he asked Coats and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers to publicly say there was no evidence that his campaign colluded with the Russians. He also recused himself from the FBI's investigation into Russia's election meddling.
"I'll tell you about that maybe in the very near future", he said.
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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.
"I'll tell you about it over a very short period of time", Trump told reporters.
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. The President likewise never pressured Mr. Comey.
Several Republican politicians also criticised Mr Comey for disclosing memos he had written in the aftermath of his private conversations with Mr Trump, calling that action "inappropriate".
It is extraordinary that the truth is prevented from coming out into the open, though it can be explained by the fact that the American mainstream media is so rabidly and nonsensically anti-Trump - who was elected democratically.
Standing with Iohannis, 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. "And we are supposed to believe this will be an objective, unbiased investigation?" I'm not going to say I want you to pledge allegiance. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is in for sharp questioning on Tuesday by senators on the Senate intelligence committee.
Comey's testimony, based in part on a review of memos he wrote - "I added that I was not "reliable" in the way politicians use that word, but he could always count on me to tell him the truth".
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