personal lawyer denied comey s most damaging accusation. the president never informed or substance directed or suggested that mr. comey stop investigating anyone. friday in a rose garden news conference, the president punched back in what sounded like tweets. know collusion. he s a leaker. willing to testify himself. would you be willing to testify under oath? 100%. reporter: a couple of key points. the meeting is likely to be behind closed door, so there won t be that big tv event that we saw with james comey. comey had wanted to appear in public. sessions would probably prefer not to, and the typical thng per the senate intelligence committee is to do its work behind closed doors. now, that other hearing where he
his father. saying the president told him, quote. the president and his personal attorney denied that happened. listen to what donald trump jr. said during an interview. i want to get back to james comey s testimony. you suggested he didn t tell the truth in everything ed. he did say under oath that you told him to let the flynn or you had you hoped the flynn investigation, you could i didn t say that. sew lied about that? well, i didn t say that. the president never informed or substance, directed or suggested, that mr. comey stop investigating anyone, including the president never suggested that mr. comey, quote, let flynn go, closed quote. when he tells you to do something, guess what. there is no ambiguity in it. there is no, hey, i m hoping.
welcome back. sources now cnn s president trump s attorney planning to file a complaint against fired fbi director james comey. attorney, marc kasowitz focused on comey s testimony that he leaked a memo about his conversation with the president. cnn s tom forman reports. the president never informed or substanced directed or suggested that mr. comey stop investigating anyone. as soon as comey s written opening statements emerged, the source tell cnn the president s attorney was buying cigars and celebrating what he calls vindication for his client. mr. comey has now finally confirmed publicly what he repeatedly told president trump privately, that is, that the president was not under
staff out to talk to me if it was about something else? and, so, that that to me is as an investigator is a very significant fact. but was it an order? i took it as a direction. right. this is the president of the united states with me alone saying i hope this. i took it as this is what he wants me to do. i didn t oh bbey that, but that how i took it. the president denying this interaction took place. the president never in form or in substance directed or suggested that mr. comey stop investigating anyone. while simultaneously celebrating other parts of comey s testimony. mr. comey has now finally confirmed publically what he repeatedly told president trump privately, that is that the president was not under investigation as part of any probe into russian interference. still unclear whether the
suggested that mr. comey stop investigating anyone include the president never suggested that mr. comey, quote, let flynn go, closed quote. the president also never told mr. comey, quote, i need loyalty, i expect loyalty, closed quote. he never said it in form, and he never said it in substance. mr. comey admitted that he leaked to friends of his purported memos of those privileged communications, although mr. comey testified that he only leaked the memos in response to a tweet, the public record reveals that the new york times was quoting from those memos the day before the referenced tweet. we will leave it to the appropriate authorities to determine whether these leaks should be investigated along