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President Trump refuted former FBI Director James Comey’s Thursday testimony, and seemed to contradict Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the Qatar blockade.
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During a joint news conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, President Trump he’d be willing to testify under oath about his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey. Trump also Qatar for being a “funder of terrorism,” just hours after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Saudi Arabia and other gulf countries to ease their blockade against, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley challenged an administration policy that would allow the government to ignore most congressional demands for federal records. The House Intelligence Committee asked the White House to of Comey’s conversations with Trump. The Justice Department Adam W. Purinton with a hate crime in connection with a shooting at a bar in Kansas.

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