Cooling trade winds, and the crystal blue caribbean sea. Nonstop flights are available from most major airports. More information for your vacation planning is available at aruba. Com. And now, bbc world news. This is bbc world news america. Im jane obrien. Former fbi director gets his dealings with President Trump. He said he wanted to set the record straight following inspiring. Administration chose to defame me, and one from it, the fbi. Those were life, plain and simple. Jane the trump team fires back at the president s personal lawyer to mr. Trump never demanded loyalty, fbi director. In the voting is over and the counting is underway in the u. K. We have the first exit polls in the british general election. Jane welcome to world news america. Can i, there are major events playing on both sides of the atlantic. In a moment, it will get to the testimony of james comey. In the u. K. , the voting is over and the general election and the exit poll by all the major broadcasters has bee
Im frances rivera. All eyes on former fbi director james comeys high profile testimony with headlines across the country detailing his allegations against President Trump. Reaction was mixed. More conservative media rallied around the president criticizing comeys performance. Nbc news received new information about attorney general jeff sessions, a source says after his public testimony comey privately told senators about a possible third interaction between sessions and russian officials. Sources also tell us that this month President Trump soninlaw Jared Kushner is expected to meet with and provide documents to members of the Senate Intelligence committee as it conducts its russia investigation. Hallie jackson has more on the block buster hearing. Reporter commanding a spotlight entirely his, james comey turned it on to the president , describing donald trump as not truthful and not credible. I was honestly concerned he might lie about our meeting. Reporter memos provided the basis o
The president never in form 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. As the president publicly stated the next day, he did say to mr. Comey, quote, general flynn is a good guy. He has been through a lot, closed quote, and also, quote, asked how general flynn is doing, closed quote. Admiral rogers testified today that the president never, quote, directed him to do anything illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate, closed quote, and never, never, quote, pressured him to do so, closed quote. Director coats said the same thing. The president likewise never pressured mr. Comey. 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. Of course, the office of the president is entitled to expect loyalty from those who are serving the administration and from before t
He might lie about the nature o our meeting and so i thought it really important to document. Comeys testimony rocks washington. Any reaction . Thank you very much. Do you think he told the truth . The president never directed or suggested that mr. Comey stopped investigating anyone. Somebody asked me did it bother me that he called the president a liar. Jim comey probably perjured himself. We now know hes the leaker. He fired the head of the fbi who was leading the investigation. What in the hell did he think was going to happen. He fell pain. He was hurt. He was the guy who got dumped. Hes basically running d. C. Comey is saying comey dont play that. It officially hung resulted hung parliament. Heartsstopping in illinois as a pair of balloons got tangled up. A mama bear giving her cubs a little climbing lesson. Oh, my god. He scores. Total abomination by the penguins. And all that matters do you believe donald trump colluded with russia . Thats a question i dont think i should answer
Shortly after the hearings, President Trumps personal attorney responded to the testimony from former fbi director james comey by getting a brief statement to the media. Mr. Kasowitz ladies and gentlemen, i am marc kasowitz. President trumps personal lawyer. Contrary to numerous false press accounts leading up to todays hearing, mr. Comey has now finally confirmed publicly what he repeatedly told the President Trump privately. That is that the president was not under investigation as part of any probe into russian interference. The president mr. Comey also admitted that there is no evidence that a single vote changed as a result of any russian interference. Mr. Comeys testimony also makes clear that the president never sought to impede the investigation into attempted russian interference in the 2016 election. And in fact, according to mr. Comey, the president told mr. Comey, quote, it would be good to find out in that investigation if there were some satellite associates of his who di