--- title: Comey Testimony: Watch Trump's Lawyer Speak After Hearing description: President Donald Trump's outside counsel, Marc Kasowitz, will deliver an on-camera statement following FBI Director James Comey's testimony canonical: https://time.com/4811163/marc-kasowitz-donald-trump-lawyer-james-comey/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-08T16:34:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T05:20:13.889Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: President Trump's Lawyer Speaks After James Comey's Testimony og:description: The attorney previously said Trump felt vindicated after reading Comey's opening statement og:url: https://time.com/4811163/marc-kasowitz-donald-trump-lawyer-james-comey/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab5931ddaaf860b7/6988d0cb0b72e307c06ee277/jame-comey-fbi-testimony-washington-dc-002.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5124 og:image:height: 2882 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-CONGRESS-INTELLIGENCE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: President Trump's Lawyer Speaks After James Comey's Testimony twitter:description: The attorney previously said Trump felt vindicated after reading Comey's opening statement twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab5931ddaaf860b7/6988d0cb0b72e307c06ee277/jame-comey-fbi-testimony-washington-dc-002.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: President Trump's Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Speaks Following James Comey's Testimony > Sponsored content. 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Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Jun 8, 2017 4:34 PM UTC President Donald Trump’s outside counsel, [Marc Kasowitz](http://time.com/4800211/sean-spicer-james-comey-russia-marc-kasowitz-donald-trump/), will deliver an on-camera statement following former FBI Director James Comey’s high-profile testimony [earlier Thursday.](http://time.com/4810345/james-comey-testimony-real-time-transcript/) Comey testified before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee about his interactions with Trump following the election and throughout the beginning of his presidency before he abruptly fired Comey, who was leading the Russia probe into the Trump Administration’s [alleged ties to Russia](http://time.com/4808685/trump-russia-watergate-james-clapper/), last month. At Thursday’s hearing, Comey said that he took notes of his meetings with Trump because he was “honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting.” A day earlier, Kasowitz indicated that Trump is not worried about Comey’s testimony. “The president is pleased that Mr. Comey has finally publicly confirmed his private reports that the President was not under investigation in any Russia probe,” Kasowitz wrote in a statement. “The president feels completely and totally vindicated. He is eager to continue to move forward with his agenda.” _Watch Kasowitz’s statement, which is slated to begin following the Comey hearing, above._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4811163/marc-kasowitz-donald-trump-lawyer-james-comey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4811163/marc-kasowitz-donald-trump-lawyer-james-comey/"},"headline":"Watch Live: President Trump's Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Speaks Following James Comey's Testimony","datePublished":"2017-06-08T16:34:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T05:20:13.889Z","description":"The attorney previously said Trump felt vindicated after reading Comey's opening statement","url":"https://time.com/4811163/marc-kasowitz-donald-trump-lawyer-james-comey/","keywords":["James Comey","White House","FBI","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab5931ddaaf860b7/6988d0cb0b72e307c06ee277/jame-comey-fbi-testimony-washington-dc-002.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aric Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab5931ddaaf860b7/6988d0cb0b72e307c06ee277/jame-comey-fbi-testimony-washington-dc-002.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-CONGRESS-INTELLIGENCE","caption":"US-POLITICS-CONGRESS-INTELLIGENCE","creditText":"Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/james-comey/","name":"James Comey"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4811163/marc-kasowitz-donald-trump-lawyer-james-comey/","name":"Watch Live: President Trump's Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Speaks Following James Comey's Testimony"}}]}] ```