Comey: "The President tweeted on Friday, after I got fired, that I better hope there's not tapes," Comey said. "I woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night, because it didn't dawn on me originally, that there might be corroboration for our conversation, there might be a tape."
"And my judgment was I needed to get that out into the public square. So I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter."
