Trump hopes to nominate new Federal Bureau of Investigation director quickly

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Sen. Richard BurrRichard BurrGOP chairman: Trump's Comey tweet "inappropriate" GOP senator: Special prosecutor "on the table" Deputy attorney general to brief Senate next week after Comey firing MORE (R-N.C.), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee leading the probe into Russia's meddling in the presidential election, said Friday that President Trump's tweet about FBI Director James Comey was "inappropriate".

All copies of any possible recordings the White House has related to the dinner between US President Donald Trump and former FBI Director James Comey from January 27 dinner need to be turned over to Congress, the ranking members of House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight Committee said in a letter to White House Counsel Don McGahn on Friday.

Four candidates to be the bureau's director were in line Saturday for the first interviews with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, at Justice Department headquarters. They are among almost a dozen candidates Trump is considering, a group that includes several lawmakers, attorneys and law enforcement officials. "I've not asked him - generally I don't go through the list of government employees and ask him, so I have not asked him specifically about that". "Nearly all of them are very well known", Trump said aboard the plane that took him to Lynchburg, Virginia, where he gave the commencement address at Liberty University. But very well known, highly respected, really talented people. "He'll do it when he wants to, just like he fired FBI Director Comey".

The decision is subject to confirmation by the US Senate, where Republicans have a majority. She left after about an hour and a half inside the building and declined to comment to reporters. John Cornyn will also be interviewed. That's according to two people familiar with the search process who weren't authorized to publicly discuss the deliberations and spoke on condition of anonymity. They can make recommendations, but the president will ultimately make the hiring decision.

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Fisher headed the Justice Department's criminal division, also under Bush.

President Donald Trump admitted the FBI's probe of then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's private email server helped him during the 2016 election, and added that he never would have let his opponent walk free.

Former FBI director James Comey is willing to testify before the Senate, but he will only do so in public, a close associate told The New York Times.

Meanwhile, Reuters regarded Donald Trump's tweet as a "warning to ousted FBI Director James Comey not to talk to the media, a highly unusual move that prompted fresh charges the president is trying to silence the man who led an investigation into possible collusion between Trump's election campaign and Russian Federation".

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