Trump tweeted on May 12, in response to a New York Times report about Comey's dinner with Trump, that Comey "better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"
Thursday was a big day in Washington, as Senate Republicans unveiled the health-care bill they had been crafting behind closed doors and President Trump tweeted that he does not possess recordings of his conversations with former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James B. Comey after all.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at the Thursday press briefing that President Trump wants to keep working for the best possible health care legislation.
David Martosko, the US political editor of London's Daily Mail, who covered the president's campaign, has also interviewed for senior communications jobs, according to a person familiar with the interviews who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private deliberations.
Over the duration of Mr Trump's first six months as president, Mr Spicer has more routinely favoured off-camera press gaggles, which tend to shorter and more informal, over traditional televised briefings.
'Witch Hunt' Trump confirms he is being investigated over Comey firing
Trump has also told friends and others that a " witch hunt " is being conducted against him. Comey said he believed Trump's advice to be a direction and thus felt uncomfortable by it.
"The nice thing about turning the cameras off sometimes, and I find this, is that it is not 'performance art, ' as you call it, that you end up having, I think sometimes, a more substantive discussion about actual issues", he said.
It was the kind of day when voters might expect to see a White House spokesman answer questions from reporters. "They're not trying to figure out, 'How do I get on TV?"
"There's a lot of them that want to become YouTube stars and ask some snarky question that's already been asked eight times", Spicer said of reporters.
"We continue to follow that and so there is a bit of snarkiness now with the press because, again, I think a lot of them are more focused about getting their clip on air there than they are of actually taking the time to understand an issue", he concluded before Ingraham shifted to other topics. "It's our job to make sure that we are providing updates of what the president is doing and the advances he is making on his agenda", he continued. How do I make - ask some snarky question?' You can actually focus on the substance of the issues.So days in which the President was speaking, we would generally do an off-camera gaggle. "And this is one area that we've done that. And we talked about it literally from the beginning", Spicer explained.
Spicer memorably spent several minutes conferring with another press aide among the bushes outside the White House before insisting upon answering questions in the dark of night, without being filmed.
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