The white house firing back. I can say that the president is not a liar, it is insulting that that would be asked. The president feels vindicated. We learned. Did you show copy of your memo to memo to anyone outside of the department of justice . Yes, i thought that might prompt the appointment of the special counsel. And where we go from here. Do you believe this is the obstruction of justice . The cloud over this administration has just gotten a whole lot darker. They will lie, they will obstruct. We will not back down from doing what is right. Lab reports from the white house and capitol hill, export analysis and breaking news changes everything. All on this midnight addition of special report. Bret this is approximate i news alert, 5 00 a. M. In london, and this is where we begin tonight with breaking news across the pond in the u. K. The sun is coming up right now over there, and it may be the dawn of a very new day in british politics. Prime minister theresa mays big political gamble to force a quick collection looks like it has backfired spectacularly as votes are still being counted at this hour, and her conservative party looks to be far worse than where they were supposed to be. Live early friday morning in london. Good morning. Good morning, brett. However, the final vote tally shakes out, it is concluded that theresa may made a miscalculation calling for the special election seven weeks ago. The idea was to enhance the majority that she and her conservative tory party held in parliament. The exit poll says that they will remain the largest party, but not retain the majority. Official numbers role in all incoming and theresa may hold onto her own seat, with 11 days to go before the brexit negotiations were said to begin, there is a solid chance we are looking at a Hung Parliament. At this time, more than anything else, this country needs a period of stability. Hand it is on their earthy indication that the conservative party has won the most seats, probably the most votes. Then it will be incumbent on us to ensure that we have that period of stability. That is exactly what we will do. Know one thing underestimated was the passion that remains in the antiestablishment vote. That votes went to Jeremy Corbyn and his labour party. Both the exit poll and official results show labor making big gains, not enough for a majority. I am very proud of the results coming in all over the country tonight. People voting for hope, voting for hope for the future. Now the austerity that he is the hostility of police. This is where the terror attacks come into play. Although he was not a supporter of security forces, the campaign was stopped twice due to bloodshed. It became very convenient for him to criticize budget tightening, you cannot protect the public on the cheap, he said. Theresa may thought this would be a one issue election, brexit and only brexit. A candidate lacked the sizzle on the campaign trail. She refused a debate. Some people say she took it all for granted, no it is shaping up as a major upset. The pound is losing value. Reporters are questioning the Prime Minister. If she will resign, it is anybodys guess how you move forward with brexit. Bret live in london, mike, thank you, lets talk about the british election. Steve hilton is a former advisor to debbie cameron, and also the host of the next revolution right here on fox news channel. He joins us from deer valley, utah. Good evening, steve, tell us what you think it is amazing to see. A big story globally. It is an amazing outcome in many ways, bret. This result is more surprising, more shocking than the brexit boat itself last year. That took the whole world by surprise. The reason for that is that Jeremy Corbyn that mike was just telling us about, the labour party leader, he was written off as a complete joke. A totally unelectable. Now of course, he has not been elected. Looks like we are still going to see a conservative government without an overhaul majority, probably doing a deal with one of the smaller parties to get through the legislation, but Jeremy Corbyn, the joe candidate in the eyes of the establishment had so much support. And deprives theresa may of the big majority that she wanted. Another example of how this popular sentiment is sweeping across the world. People wanted to say, we have had enough of the establishment. And in this case, it was the populist of the left, Jeremy Corbyn that seem to benefit. Bret he sort of has a Bernie Sanders type of caste to him, and the british kind of way. Give people the fish politics 101 wide theresa may called for this quick election, what she was hoping to do and what it means that she comes up short of the majority in the u. K. The last regular election was 2015, David Cameron was a tory leader. He became Prime Minister with a small majority. That was unexpected. The brexit vote happened last year, he was on the losing losing sight of that. He resigned in a messy post brexit exit. Theresa may was the only one left standing. And she took the reins as Prime Minister. She felt that actually going into the brexit negotiation that the small majority is not enough. She wanted to strengthen her hand. She looked at the opinion poll that suggested that she was 20, 30 points ahead of the labour party. And if she called an election, or right to do, she would get a landslide. A big majority that would not only give her strength in the present negotiations, but on a personal mandate that had nothing to do with brexit. Now that she has not got that, and a lot of things, not only increased her majority, but lost it. I think there were serious questions on whether she can stay on as Prime Minister. What you are likely to see in the next few days is a lot of pressure from inside her party to stand aside, and we may see in the next few days someone like Boris Johnson or michael go or david davis, one of the leading figures in the party actually become one of the new leaders of potentially Prime Minister. We do not know if that is going to happen. But i would not be surprised to see her stand out in the next few days. Bret Boris Johnson, the minister who has an interesting look at himself he has been in the uss. In between the call for the election and the election itself, two terrorist attacks. Also some interaction between our president , President Trump and the london mayor, do you think that that had anything into this dynamic as the election was coming forward . I think with the trumpmayor of london thing, not really. But the terror attacks, yes, i do. And you have to remember that there is a huge amount of anger in the u. K. , the fact that in both cases, and in all three attacks over the last few months, three attacks, the westminster bridge, manchester, and now london bridge. In each case it turned out they the attackers were in the phrase that we have all come to know and hate, known to the kids sey services. In theresa may personally has been responsible for security and fighting terrorism. Before she was Prime Minister, she was Homeland Security minister for six years, so if there were problems with the u. K. s fight against terrorism, and these attacks suggest that there are. She is the one who is responsible. So that really did make a difference at the result that we are seeing tonight. Bret last name, the windy utah as we are talking to you there, what do you think this means for the u. S. . If it becomes a more liberal parliament or a different leadership structure, and perhaps even if theresa may steps down . I think that actually that relationship should not be affected too much. In many ways it could be strengthened, because the crucial factor will be will it be a conservative government or a conservative Less Government or a labor government . It looks like Jeremy Corbyn, who has done better than anybody expected would get enough seats in parliament to be able to perform a government. That means he is going to have a conservative Prime Minister, and whoever it is, frankly, they will be prou. S. , they will want to negotiate a good deal with the u. S. Just as theresa may wanted. I dont think you will see much change there. If by some process Jeremy Corbyn becomes Prime Minister, that is a huge, huge change. Because he is antiamerican, he has been all his career. He is a far left socialist. He will probably bret i want to interrupt you, he is not the best at high fives. He had a moment tonight when he was celebrating the victory, and to the video is a little bit awkward. I think he is with another labour party member, and oh, dear, he misses completely. He is an interesting character, and steve, as you look at the headlines for the papers at least of the last hour, the daily mail, daily telegraph, shock as Hung Parliament, the daily parliament, and at times with mays big gamble fails. It seems like the news is being written by the minute here. It is an unbelievable result. I think that the really interesting question will be whether the conservatives hang onto power, and therefore keep the Brexit Process going. If labor gets into power, it is anybodys guess what happens, not only to the u. K. U. S. Relationship, but to brexit itself. Bret out in utah tonight, steve, your expertise were great tonight. Thank you very much. Now to the big domestic story, of course, we are here tonight after a highly anticipated day of testimony from former fbi director james comey who said that the president asked for some special considerations when it came to the investigation. Comey later fired by the president. He said that the Administration Lied about him and the fbi and said that he was fired because of the russia investigations. The white house perspective, as you can imagine, somewhat different. We have fox team coverage, john roberts has the president s side, start out with catherine herridge, she was in the hearing today about what comey said. Good morning, catherine. Thank you, brad. At the trumps legal team confirms to fox news that tomorrow they will file a complaint at the Justice Department as well as a letter of complaint with the Senate Judiciary committee, based on the leaks to the media. The legal team is importing whether he violated the fbi employment agreement that bars the disclosure of records of classification. Earlier today on capitol hill, he testified about why he drafted those memos in the first place. I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting, i found an important document. Speak with the senior democrat on the Intelligence Committee wanted more information on the First Encounter with the incoming president. What was it about that meeting that led you to determine that you needed to start putting down a written record . The circumstances prior to the subject matter, and the person that i was interacting with. Publicly the white house said that james comey was fired over his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. A loss of confidence in the fbi. But the former director said otherwise of the motives. I was fired up about this home this some way i was doing the Russian Investigation. In midfebruary after a briefing, comey said that the president asked him to stay behind. He thought the attorney general and kushner lingered, but were told to go. You mentioned that Jeff Sessions said he was never left alone with the president , but did you ever consider why attorney general sessions was not asked to stay in the room . Oh, sure. I did. And i have. And in that moment have you talked to him about it . No. You never had a conversation with Jeff Sessions about it . No. Once alone he wanted to let go of the probe and Michael Flynn. At that time did you say anything to the president about it not being an appropriate request . Identity. Why . The circumstances were that i was stunned. Democrat its called and a pattern. Each time clearing the room of the attorney general, why would you do that unless you are conscious that what you were about to do was wrong . After a media report that the president asked comey for a pledge of loyalty, he tweeted about possible tapes of the conversation. Extending into motion a chain of events that led to the special counsel appointment. Look, ive seen the tweet about tapes, i hope there are tapes. I was up to him to set the record straight. I asked a friend of mine to share the content with a reporter. I did not do it by myself for a variety of reasons. I asked two right. The mind to do it. Members of both parties question comeys actions. You did not consider your memo or your sense of that conversation to be a government document . You consider that to be your own personal document that you could share with the media as he wanted to . I understood this to be my recollection recorded of my conversation with the president as a private citizen. I felt free to share that. I felt a very important to get it out. A lot comes down to who should we believe. Do you want to say anything as to why we should have believe you . I try to be open, fair, transparent, accurate. On trumps request as pulling out crime, comey said it would be up to the special counsel. Bret catherine herridge, thank you. No tweets, no statements, nothing from the president directly about comeys testimony, but he is getting his message out in other ways. There is some breaking news even earlier this morning. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts has that story from the north along pretty good morning. Good morning. It has been eerily quiet in the twitter feed for the last 18 hours or so. But a source familiar with the matter tells me that the president felt good about the testimony today, he finally publicly said that the president was not under investigation in connection with the russia matter, and the fact that comey outed himself as a leaguer. Proving to the president s mind that he was right all along. I understood this to be my recollection. While the president may have seen a few minutes of thursdays hearing on the tv in his private dining room, he was all about business. Meeting with his National Security team, then even as comey was still testifying, addressing the freedom and faith coalition. You did not let me down. I will never, ever let you down. You know that. The president personal attorney Marc Kasowitz launched it in the dining room, took to the microphones to proclaim what he saw as good news. Mr. Comey has finally confirmed publicly what he repeatedly told President Trump privately. That is that the president was not under investigation as part of any probe into russian interference. Some aspect of the testimony Marc Kasowitz took issue with. Comeys assertion that the president was ordering him to drop the investigation into Michael Flynn and President Trump demanded a pledge of loyalty. The president never informed or substance directed or suggested that mr. Comey stop investigating anyone, including the president never suggested that mr. Comey led to play and go. The president also never told mr. Comey i need loyalty. I expect loyalty. He never said it in form. He never said it in substance. The president s team also came down hard on comeys revelation that he leaked the details of the february 14th meeting in the oval office in order to prop the appointment of a special counsel. Marc kasowitz claimed that it formed retaliation against the president. We will leave it to the appropriate authorities to determine whether these leaks should be investigated along with all the others that are being investigated. Comey says that his leak was prompted by the president s tweet that there may be tapes of the conversations. Neither the president or in any one on his staff will confirm that there are tapes. A fact that the Senate Minority leader finds puzzling. It is awfully curious that no one from the president s team will either confirm or deny the existence of the tapes. When the tapes are the only way to prove that mr. Comeys testimony, which came under oath are false or misleading. In his testimony, comey says that he found it highly unusual that the president would shoo everyone out of the oval office to speak with him alone. Paul ryan put that down to political inexperience. The president is new at this. He is new to government. So he probably was not steeped in the longrunning protocols that establish the relationships between doj, fbi, and white houses. He is new to this. Source familiar with the manner tells fox news that in the president s very first meeting with james comey, that was an intelligence briefing january 6 at trump tower, at the end of the meeting comey asked the rest of the participants to leave so that he could speak privately with the president. Because of that precedent, the president may have seen nothing in the unusual or wrong about meeting privately with comey after his meeting in the oval office on february 14th. Bret john roberts, after a long day at the white house, thank you. Up next, james comey takes a bite out of the media. And breaking news as we have mentioned out of the u. K. We are keeping an eye on the big election over there. Big upset, a big night with some even bigger consequences around the world. U. K. Voters dont want brexit, they want change credit they want somebody who stands up and speaks for them. Im afraid that theresa may just represented the establishment. Whatever happens theresa may is toast. It is just a matter of time. I no longer live with the uncertai