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US President Donald Trump has said he is prepared to apologise for retweeting inflammatory videos by the far-right Britain First group.

In an interview with ITV's Good Morning Britain, Mr Trump said that he had known nothing about the organisation when he made the social media postings.

“If you are telling me they're horrible people, horrible, racist people, I would certainly apologise if you'd like me to do that,” he told presenter Piers Morgan.

A US Senate committee plans to release transcripts of interviews with Trump aides who attended a 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower.

The transcripts include an interview with Donald Trump Jr, who attended the meeting after he was promised dirt on Hillary Clinton.

The interviews are part of one of several inquiries into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow.

It was not immediately clear when the transcripts would be released.

Republican Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said the panel would start releasing "all witness interviews that we have done related to that meeting" right away and "get them out to the public for everyone to see".

His panel leads one of four Russia-related inquiries into Trump officials.

As well as the president's eldest son, the committee has interviewed other participants at the controversial Trump Tower meeting.

They include music promoter Rob Goldstone, Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin and Anatoli Samochornov, a translator for Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

Dianne Feinstein, the most senior Democrat on the committee, said she was "delighted" by Mr Grassley's decision.

When it was first revealed, Mr Trump Jr said he met Ms Veselnitskaya in June 2016 at his father's Manhattan skyscraper to discuss US adoptions of Russian children.

The meeting took place in the run-up to the November 2016 presidential election, and he later acknowledged attending the meeting because he had been promised information that would help defeat Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

It was later reported by several media outlets that President Trump has personally dictated the first misleading statement, claiming the meeting was to do with adoptions.

Critics say Mr Trump's involvement may constitute obstruction of justice.

Former White House Chief strategist Steve Bannon, who served Mr Trump during his campaign and throughout the first seven months of his presidency, has called the meeting "treasonous".

Mr Bannon later clarified that his comments were directed at former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who also attended the Trump Tower meeting with the president's son.

Senator Grassley said he felt his committee's investigation of the Trump Tower meeting was complete, so it was time to start releasing the testimony.

The announcement comes amid increasing rancour in Congress over the investigations of the intelligence community's finding that Russia had sought to interfere in the 2016 election to boost Mr Trump.

Senator Grassley said on Thursday that Senator Feinstein had "spooked" other potential witnesses recently when she unilaterally released a transcript from another witness.

Earlier this month, Senator Feinstein, a California Democrat, disseminated 312 pages of testimony by Glenn Simpson, the head of a Washington-based research firm, Fusion GPS.

Hired by Mr Trump's political opponents, Fusion GPS produced a much-disputed dossier that alleges ties between him and the Kremlin.

Senator Grassley said Senator Feinstein's decision meant the committee's chances of "getting a voluntary interview with Mr Kushner have been shot".

Mr Kushner, the president's son-in-law, also attended the Trump Tower meeting.

Separately on Thursday, the US Department of Justice's (DoJ) internal watchdog said it had recovered a trove of missing texts between two FBI officials who made disparaging comments about Mr Trump.

The texts between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who were romantically linked, went missing due to an apparent technical glitch and were recovered using forensic tools.

In a letter to Republican lawmakers, DoJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said the five months of messages could be shared with congressional committees.

In some of the other messages previously released to Congress, Mr Strzok and Ms Page refer to Donald Trump as an "idiot" and a "loathsome human".

The president and some Republicans have said the texts prove political bias at the FBI.

Mr Strzok was removed from the Russia inquiry after the messages were discovered.

Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Pat Meehan will not seek reelection this year, after revelations that he used taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment case involving a former staffer.

Trump said he hadn’t given ‘any thought’ to firing Mueller two months after he tried to do so

The candidate, Courtland Sykes, wrote that “radical feminism” has a “crazed definition of modern womanhood.”

“They made it up to suit their own nasty, snake-filled heads,” he said. “Men and women are different and gender-bending word games by a goofy nest of drugstore academics aren’t going to change anything — except the fantasy life of those confused people in ivory towers.”

Sykes, who is one of several Republicans planning a run against Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), posted the remarks on his Facebook page this week, though they were originally from an interview in September.

I hope someone has issued a Missing Persons alert for Reince Priebus

US President Donald Trump has described as "fake news" a report that he ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller last June, but backed down when his own lawyer threatened to resign.

White House counsel Donald McGahn said the sacking would have a "catastrophic effect" on the presidency, the New York Times reported.

Mr Mueller is leading an inquiry into possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia to influence the US election.

Both Moscow and Mr Trump deny this.

"Fake News. Typical New York Times. Fake Stories," Mr Trump said at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos, where he is due to give a speech later.

He has also been speaking about other issues:

Russian news agency Tass quoted Mr Trump as saying he "hoped" for more dialogue between the US and Russia

White House officials said Mr Trump was open to rejoining the Paris climate change agreement, if better terms for the US could be agreed

Mr Trump will say in his speech that he is in favour of "fair and reciprocal" free trade but will not tolerate trade abuses and intellectual property theft, according to US officials

He (Trump) is in so far over his head. He doesn't understand government and he doesn't understand how law works (except in its twisted version practiced by the likes of Roy Cohn). So he undoubtedly won't understand why this news story will be eye-popping -- even to a population mostly numbed to the multiple shocks to to the nervous system from this presidency.

You see, Mr. President, you're in office partly because a foreign power unfriendly to us hacked our election in order to undermine your opponent. They succeeded far beyond their initial plans. We the people, yes the people, this is a democracy, have a right to know what went on and who facilitated that historic event. If you had no involvement, as you claim, you should welcome a thorough and credible investigation of the matter -- because faith in our elections is important. So, no, you don't have the right to treat the FBI and the Justice Department like your personal lawyers. They work for us, not for you. You have your own lawyers. These are the people's lawyers, and you can't just expect to fire them because you'd rather they not look into things that hurt your "brand." It doesn't work that way here in the public sector.

The optics of this, Mr. President, couldn't be worse. You tried to fire a universally respected Republican career prosecutor not because he did anything wrong, but because he's doing the job that We The People need him to do, while some semblance of checks and balances still exists.

Turkey is prepared to take its fight against Kurdish forces in northern Syria as far east as Iraq, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.

Speaking in Ankara, Mr Erdogan reiterated that his forces will move against Kurdish-controlled Manbij, which risks confrontation with the US.

US troops are based in the city, which was taken from the Islamic State group (IS) by Kurdish-led forces in 2016.