https://thinkprogress.org/republicans-dine-at-white-house-then-use-comey-hearing-to-try-to-exonerate-trump-b6a6533c785e
"Less than 48 hours before former FBI Director James Comey’s testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee and detailed a January dinner during which he claims President Trump asked him to pledge personal loyalty, two Republican members of committee dined with Trump at the White House. Those members — Marco Rubio (FL) and Tom Cotton (AL) — then spent Thursday’s hearing trying to exonerate Trump of wrongdoing."
