President Donald Trump claimed Friday that he was 'transparent' with the special counsel, even though he didn't have to be, and allowed investigators to interview witnesses, who he says he didn't have to give provide any access to. Trump said he's still deciding whether to let former White House Counsel Don McGahn testify on Capitol Hill, having already given him the go ahead to talk to Robert Mueller and his prosecutors for 30-odd hours. 'There has been no president in history that has given what I've given in terms of looking at just a total witch hunt. I call it the "Russian hoax." It turned out to be no collusion, no obstruction. It was a total hoax,' he claimed on Friday. 'And, yet, I was transparent. We gave 1.4 million documents. We gave hundreds of people.' President Donald Trump claimed Friday that he was 'transparent' with the special counsel, even though he didn't have to be, and allowed investigators to interview witnesses, who he says he didn't have to give provide any access to In addition to McGahn, Trump told reporters, 'I let him interview other people. I didn’t have to let him interview anybody. I didn’t have to give any documents. I was totally transparent because I knew I did nothing wrong. 'No collusion with Russia. Think of it: Thirty-five million dollars they spent, they wasted, over a period of two years. No collusion, no obstruction.' Trump claimed he'd gone to extraordinary lengths to satisfy the special counsel as he hosted the prime minister of Slovak Republican in the Oval Office. He complained about 'dishonest press' who 'go out of their way' tell lies about him. 'I want to see freedom of the press. And I get treated fairly by some press, but I get treated very unfairly by other press,' he claimed on press freedom day. 'And, frankly, I think that’s very dishonest.' The U.S. president claimed, 'I want to see a free press. I mean, today I was happy to see on the front page of the New York Times -- for the first time -- where they were talking about spying and they were talking about spying on my campaign. He said, 'That’s a big difference between the way they've been covering, but that’s a big story. That’s a story bigger than Watergate, as far as I'm concerned.' Trump claimed Thursday that it's likely former FBI Director James Comey led an effort to spy on his campaign in 2016. And he told a Fox News Channel interviewer that he intends to declassify documents related to controversial surveillance warrants 'pretty soon.' White House officials have vented both publicly and privately for more than a year about warrants the Obama Justice Department obtained from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to monitor Carter Page, then a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser. The president signaled Friday morning that a reckoning was near. 'Finally, Mainstream Media is getting involved - too “hot” to avoid,' he tweeted, citing a front-page New York Times story about 'effort to spy on Trump Campaign.' President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to declassify 'everything' related to the Obama administration's campaign-year 'spying' on his campaign Trump blames former FBI Director James Comey for 'probably' leading an effort to win approval for surveillance of one of his campaign foreign policy aides The president mocked The New York Times for 'finally' reporting on Obama-era efforts to spy on his campaign 'Pulitzer Prize anyone? ... This is bigger than WATERGATE, but the reverse!' the president wrote. He didn't set a firm timetable on Fox News for declassifying the materials related to the FISA warrants, saying he would do it 'soon, I mean whenever they need it.' 'I will be declassifying, yes.' he said. 'Everything.' Trump made a point of blasting Comey, who called him 'amoral' in a New York Times op-ed this week. Carter Page, pictured last October in Los Angeles, was the subject of several intelligence warrants approved by a secretive federal court 'Comey leaked and he lied. He lied in front to Congress,' he said, renewing themes that are now nearly as old as his presidency. And the FBI director who he fired two years ago likely was in charge of scooping up intelligence aimed at preventing his victory, he claimed. 'I would say he probably led some kind of an effort,' Trump said of Comey. 'The word 'spying' has been used. He probably was one of the people leading the effort on spying.' 'It could very well be true. We are going to find out pretty soon,' he said. Attorney General William Barr told Congress in April that 'spying on a political campaign is a big deal,' and added: 'I think spying did occur.' Barr didn't offer evidence to support his conclusions, but he is one of a small number of government officials with access to classified materials related to the previous administration's counter-intelligence operations related to the Trump campaign. Barr didn't object categorically at the time to the idea of the Justice Department 'spying' on a political campaign. 'The question is whether it was predicated — adequately predicated,' he testified. 'I'm not suggesting it wasn't adequately predicated, but I need to explore that. I think it's my obligation. Congress is usually very concerned about intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies staying in their proper lane.' Barr told a Senate panel on Wednesday that the word 'spying' doesn't necessarily carry a negative connotation, but refers to ordinary intelligence work. Comey said last month in New York that he disagrees. 'When I hear that kind of language used, it's concerning,' he told an audience at a Hewlett Foundation event, 'because the FBI, the Department of Justice, conduct court-ordered electronic surveillance. I have never thought of that as spying.' 'I have no idea what the heck he's talking about,' Comey said. Trump said hours later at the White House that 'there was absolutely spying into my campaign.' 'I'll go a step further: In my opinion, it was illegal spying, unprecedented spying, and something that should never be allowed to happen in our country again,' he said, 'and I think his answer was actually a very accurate one.' Trump has complained about 'spying' on his campaign since March 4, 2017, when he stunned politics-watchers by claiming in an unprompted tweet that 'Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!' He returned to the theme less than three weeks ago, tweeting: 'THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN (We will never forget)!' All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility