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b"It was a day many have been anticipating for some time. Fired FBI Director James Comey testified in an open hearing in the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday about his one-on-one meetings with President Trump, during which, he claims, Trump asked for 'loyalty' during one meeting, and asked Comey to help end the FBI's investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn in the other. During his opening statement and subsequent Q&A with members of the Committee, Comey charged the Trump Administration with having lied about the reasons for his firing, which he attributes to an attempt to scuttle the Bureau's investigation into Team Trump's coordination with Russia both before and after last year's election.\\xa0 Following today's testimony, Trump's personal attorney claimed Comey's testimony 'vindicated' his client, and he otherwise vehemently rejected the assertion that Trump either demanded Comey's 'loyalty' or sought to shut down the Flynn investigation. Joining us for analysis today is journalist and author Marcy Wheeler, who offers comparisons between this scandal and others she's covered in the past (such as the deliberate outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame during the George W. Bush Administration). Wheeler responds to Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz' claims that Comey 'leaked privileged information',\\xa0 details new revelations from Comey's testimony regarding his various meetings with the President, his contemporaneous documentation of those meetings, potential legal exposure by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Vice President Mike Pence, whether we can have confidence in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, and the possibility -- raised again during today's testimony -- that White House audio tapes of the meetings may exist. She also breaks down the bizarre testimony before the same Committee on Wednesday, when the heads of the NSA and DNI, without apparent legal basis, refused to answer any questions about whether Trump had asked them to intercede into the FBI probe. Finally today, news breaks from the UK regarding Exit Poll results from Britain's parliamentary election, which suggests a stunning loss of majority power for Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and what will be regarded as a huge victory for the Labour Party's Jeremy Corbyn, sometimes regarded as 'Britain's Bernie Sanders'."