President Donald Trump denied that he obstructed justice on Friday as the hawks circled overhead.

The president put his stamp of approval on a tweet sent by legal scholar and OJ Simpson lawyer Alan Dershowitz that slapped him with political sins but no actual crimes in conjunction with his requests of James Comey.

'We should stop talking about obstruction of justice. No plausible case. We must distinguish crimes from pol sins,' Dershowitz wrote in a message that Trump retweeted.

The president put his stamp of approval Friday on a tweet sent by legal scholar and OJ Simpson lawyer Alan Dershowitz that slapped him with political sins but no actual crimes in conjunction with his requests of James Comey

The legal scholar posted a write up and clip of his interview this morning on Twitter. Trump retweeted him less than an hour later

'The president has the authority to direct the head of the FBI to stop investigating anyone,' the Harvard professor told Fox News' Neil Cavuto. 'I've been saying this for months'

Trump had ignored reporters earlier this week who asked him about that very thing.

The president's personal attorney said Thursday that Comey's testimony to a Senate panel confirmed that Trump is not under investigation for allegations that he tried to obstruct the FBI's investigation into Russian collusion.

His statement addressed arguments that Trump may have obstructed justice when he talked to Comey about the FBI's investigation into Mike Flynn by denying that the president had pressured him.

Marc Kasowitz's statement claimed that Trump did not ask his FBI director to 'left Flynn go.' Flynn came up, but Trump did not ask or suggest that Comey end the FBI's investigation into his former aide, Kasowitz said.

Even if he did, Dershowitz said that's not obstruction of justice.

'The president has the authority to direct the head of the FBI to stop investigating anyone,' the Harvard professor told Fox News' Neil Cavuto. 'I've been saying this for months.'

Dershowitz also slammed Comey for the 'cowardice' he displayed when he asked his friend, a Columbia law professor, to leak the memo he kept on his interaction with the president instead of doing it himself.

The legal scholar posted a write up and clip of his interview this morning on Twitter. Trump retweeted him less than an hour later.

Trump declared war on his fired FBI director Friday morning, shredding Comey's testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee as full of 'lies' and sicking his personal lawyers on him.

Trump, who is usually active each morning on Twitter, had remained eerily quiet before Comey's testimony and in the hours after.

He let it rip this morning in tweet at 6 am.

Trump proclaimed on social media: 'Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication...and WOW, Comey is a leaker!'

Fox News then reported that Trump's legal team was preparing complaints against Comey that it will file with the Department of Justice's Inspector General and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The president's outside counsel singled out a disclosure Thursday from Comey's testimony that he gave memos on his encounters with Trump to a friend for the purpose of leaking them and lit the former law enforcement official up.

Kasowitz said it was Comey who should be investigated.

Trump stopped short of saying that Comey lied under oath at the hearing, while suggesting that he did.

It's a federal felony to lie in court testimony, and Comey could be subject to criminal charges and jail time if his claims were disproven.

Trump's message Friday was that he was coming after Comey was for something he doesn't need to prove - the former law enforcement official revealed information from their private conversations before Trump decided to waive executive privilege.

Comey testified Thursday that gave memos he authored on the discussions to a friend to disseminate after Trump claimed in a tweet that he had tapes of their conversations.

Dershowitz also slammed Comey for the 'cowardice' he displayed when he asked his friend, a Columbia law professor, to leak the memo he kept on his interaction with the president instead of doing it himself

Republicans on the Intelligence Committee argued Thursday that it may not have been within Comey's authority to share his FBI work product. He said the documents were his personal property and he leaked them as a defense mechanism.

He accused the Trump administration of spreading 'lies' about him and claimed he wrote the memos out of concern the president would be untruthful.

Rather than sharing them himself, he asked a friend to leak passages to the media.

'I was worried the media was camping at the end of my driveway at that point,' he said, 'and I worried it would be like feeding seagulls at the beach.'

Dershowitz shot back on Fox, 'I thought it showed a lot of cowardice.'

Echoing Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Dershowitz commented on Comey's stature and said that he's supposed to be a 'strong and powerful guy, and he's afraid of a couple of seagulls.'