Comey to testify publicly about Trump confrontations
Source: CNN
(CNN) Fired FBI director James Comey plans to testify publicly in the Senate as early as next week to confirm bombshell accusations that President Donald Trump pressured him to end his investigation into a top Trump aide's ties to Russia, a source close to the issue said Wednesday.
Final details are still being worked out and no official date for his testimony has been set. Comey is expected to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia during last year's presidential election.
Comey has spoken privately with Special Counsel Robert Mueller III to work out the parameters for his testimony to ensure there are no legal entanglements as a result of his public account, a source said. Comey will likely sit down with Mueller, a longtime colleague at the Justice Department, for a formal interview only after his public testimony.
When he testifies, Comey is unlikely to be willing to discuss in any detail the FBI's investigation into the charges of possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign -- the centerpiece of the probe, this source said. But he appears eager to discuss his tense interactions with Trump before his firing, which have now spurred allegations that the president may have tried to obstruct the investigation. If it happens, Comey's public testimony promises to be a dramatic chapter in the months-long controversy, and it will likely bring even more intense scrutiny to an investigation that Trump has repeatedly denounced as a "witch hunt."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/politics/fbi-comey-testimony/index.html
Gotta get back on track from the "covfefe hiatus".
Txbluedog
(1,128 posts)If you hear him say anything else its FAKE NEWS
BumRushDaShow
(129,025 posts)That tweet-hunch will be forthcoming for sure!
AC_Mem
(1,979 posts)45 and the RW news is putting out the "alternative facts" about the Democrat congressmen not wanting to invite Carter Page to speak.
Always always look for the REAL reason he sends out his pigeons with distracting messages.
nocalflea
(1,387 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)or he will join the reporter investigating Ivanka, who is now sleeping with the covfefe fish!
Txbluedog
(1,128 posts)Nothing unfortunate can befall Comey because if it does, all fingers will be pointing at Trump and Vlad and they really don't want to turn the fire into an inferno
SHRED
(28,136 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)There is a pattern of criminal acts to obfuscate the same facts, meetings with Russians. Trump is the central person in a wide conspiracy.