TEXT: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, speaks during a news conference following a Senate Republican luncheon in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, May 16, 2017. U.S. lawmakers from both parties kept up the pressure on Donald Trump over the sudden firing of James Comey, demanding that recordings the president suggested he may have made of his meetings with the former FBI director be preserved and handed over to lawmakers. Photographer: Zach Gibson/Bloomberg via Getty Images