President Donald Trump says he's "100 percent" willing to testify under oath about his interactions with fired FBI director James Comey.
Trump insists that Comey lied in some parts of the testimony he gave Thursday to the Senate intelligence committee. Comey testified under oath.
Trump says that he never asked Comey for a pledge of loyalty and never told Comey he hoped the investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn would go away.
He says nobody would ask a man he hardly knew to pledge loyalty to him.
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3:24 p.m.
President Donald Trump has criticized TV news channels and called them "killer networks that treat me so badly as fake news."
Trump was speaking at a news conference Friday at the White House with Romania's president.
Trump chose to take a question after his criticism of TV networks from Jonathan Karl of ABC News. Karl asked him about the Senate testimony Thursday of fired FBI Director James Comey. The former FBI director said the president had told lies.
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3:20 p.m.
President Donald Trump is at last publicly confirming his commitment to NATO's mutual defense pact.
When Trump spoke at the alliance's gathering in Belgium last month, he did not make reference to the agreement, which is known as Article 5.
But on Friday he said was "committing the United States to Article 5."
Trump's omission in Brussels raised concerns on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. White House aides said that the president's support was implied even though he deliberately did not utter the words.
The only time that Article 5 was invoked was after the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001.
Trump was asked if he would move the U.S. to defend NATO if Russia attacked; he did not answer that part of the question.
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3:15 p.m.
President Donald Trump says fired FBI director James Comey's testimony Thursday proved there was "no collusion, no obstruction" and that "he's a leaker."
Trump also says Comey confirmed a lot of what Trump hadclaimed about their interactions, though he says other parts of Comey's testimony "just weren't true."
Trump won't rule out his previous claim that there may be tapes of his conversations with Comey.
He says, "Well, I'll tell you about that maybe sometime in the very near future."
Trump is speaking at a joint press conference with his Romanian counterpart.
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3:10 p.m.
President Donald Trump is saluting the United States' relationship with Romania and praised the nation's help in the global fight against terror.
Trump appeared Friday in the White House Rose Garden with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.
Iohannis said this partnership with the United States "shaped Romania as it is today."
He also praised Trump's recent call for NATO members to increase their defense spending. Iohannis touted that Romania recently boosted its own allocation of defense spending.
Iohannis also stressed that necessity of NATO and the European Union to world safety. Trump at times has cast doubt on the need for the two alliances.
