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- Top Republican leaders demanded the Justice Department “immediately” release memos that former FBI director James Comey wrote about his conversations with President Donald Trump.
- Those memos are now a part of the obstruction of justice case special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly building around Trump.
- The Republican lawmakers said there was “no legal basis for withholding these materials.”
Top Republican leaders demanded the Justice Department “immediately” release former FBI director James Comey’s memos containing his account of conversations he had with President Donald Trump.
In a letter addressed to deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, Republican chairmen of the House Judiciary Committee, Oversight and Government Reform, and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, requested both unclassified and classified versions of Comey’s memos on Friday.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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