Shapiro joins AGs seeking special prosecutor for Russian Federation probe

While Trump said the outgoing Federal Bureau of Investigation director had left the agency in “turmoil”, McCabe rejected any suggestion that Comey had lost the support of the rank and file.

The president’s advisers said this week that Trump fired Comey on Tuesday in response to a recommendation by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. It hasn’t recovered from that.

Also Friday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) said he hopes to have Mr. Comey testify next week in an open hearing of the intelligence committee, which is conducting a broad investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election and possible contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. I’m just saying, and you read the same things I read. “It’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won”.

Trump fired Comey on May 9.

Comey was sacked the next day, which was dominated by bad headlines for Trump on why Flynn was kept on for 18 days after Sally Yates, the former acting attorney general, told White House counsel Don McGahn that Flynn had been compromised.

The White House rejected the suggestion that the exchange was inappropriate.

He added: “I actually asked him”.

Trump’s personal attack on Comey seemed created to underline that Comey’s dismissal was about his performance at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and not a probe that has hung over Trump’s presidency since he took office on January 20 this year and threatens to overwhelm his policy priorities.

I want you to read the following words very, very carefully. But the revelation intensified the pressure on the White House from both political parties to explain the motives behind Comey’s stunning ouster. “My decision”, Trump said. And The Washington Post is reporting that Rosenstein is threatening to quit if the White House continues to point the finger of blame at him for the decision to fire Comey.

Former Republican congressman Mike Rogers is being considered as a candidate to replace Comey, a senior White House official said. “I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation….”

Following the meeting Mark Warner, the Democrat vice-chairman of the committee, said: “I voted to confirm this individual as deputy attorney general”.

I can not believe that there is not a single honourable Republican in Congress who knows what has to be done and has the political courage to do it.

Now that Mr. Comey is a civilian, he is in the position to become Mr. Trump’s worst nightmare. If he did not believe that Comey was being fired because of his advised actions regarding Hillary Clinton during the campaign, then he should not have provided that cover. The president raised eyebrows when he said he directly asked Comey whether he was under investigation. At the same time, the percentage who view Trump as too friendly with the Russian leader has risen from 31 percent to 38 percent.

While Mr. Trump’s firings of Mr. Comey and acting attorney general Sally Yates made headlines, we need to remember that he forced out every remaining USA attorney from the previous administration and has refused to fill numerous deputy and deputy assistant positions.

Meanwhile, the New York Times reported that Trump pressed Comey for a pledge of loyalty over dinner only a week after his inauguration, according to an account by two associates of the lawman.

The president said he wants to “get to the bottom” of Moscow’s interference, but seemed to discount the intelligence community’s existing conclusion that Russian Federation in fact attempted to sway the election.