Trump tweeted in his first comments since the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday.
President Donald Trump on Friday denied bombshell revelations by former FBI Director James Comey, offering to testify under oath on the matter.
The House intelligence committee sent a letter Friday asking White House counsel Don McGahn whether any tape recordings or memos of Comey's conversations with the president exist now or had existed in the past.
According to James Comey, Trump hoped that the then-FBI director would find a way to drop his investigation of ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn and help blow away "the cloud" concerning the Trump campaign's possible ties to Russian Federation.
Mr Comey accused Mr Trump of firing him to try to undermine the bureau's investigation into possible collusion between his 2016 presidential campaign team and Russian Federation. The statement went on to say that Mr. Trump "feels completely and totally vindicated", and that "he is eager to continue to move forward with his agenda". "I think it's abhorrent conduct", said Shannen Coffin, a former Justice Department official and counsel to Vice President Richard Cheney. When asked if the former Federal Bureau of Investigation director was lying then, the president said, "Well, I didn't say that".
Taking to Twitter, Mr Trump questioned whether Mr Comey's leaking of information to a journalist was illegal. In any other context, involving any other president, Comey's words would be very damaging, perhaps to the point of debilitating.
Trump's lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, phrased it differently, accusing Comey of "unilaterally and surreptitiously" making "unauthorised disclosures to the press of privileged communications with the president".
Former FBI director James Comey is sworn in during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 8, 2017, in Washington.
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Trump also seized on Comey's revelation that he had directed a friend to release memos he'd written documenting his conversations with the president to a reporter. I mean, I will tell you, I didn't say that, ' Trump replied.
"I'll tell you about that maybe sometime in the very near future", Trump told reporters, adding that "you're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer".
Michael Gerhardt, a constitutional law professor at University of North Carolina School of Law, called Trump's actions with Comey "unusual and inappropriate".
"Lordy, I hope there are tapes", Comey said at the hearing. There have also been reports, in the Times and elsewhere, that Trump is furious with Sessions for recusing himself and thus leaving the investigation in more independent hands, and that Sessions offered to resign.
One person who has worked with Trump in the past declared there was "no chance" he had actually taped his conversations with Comey. But several things can be important at the same time, and ranking objectively higher in terms of importance was Comey's testimony that the sitting president might have tried to interfere with an investigation.
Comey confirmed what Trump had said when he fired the FBI director last month: Comey had told the president on three different occasions that he wasn't the target of a criminal investigation.
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert took a deep dig on President Trump saying that he should be "under oath". Later he said Comey wasn't doing a good job.
Were the White House conversations taped?
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