In a statement, the White House denied the version of events in the memo. Justice Department officials warned Comey against sending the letter, saying that doing so would be inconsistent with department policy meant to avoid the appearance of prosecutorial interference or meddling in elections. Associates of Comey told ABC News Sunday that he believes that public testimony before Congress is the most appropriate setting to share details of his termination.
January 6, 2017: Comey is among a group of four top US intelligence officials who briefed then-President-elect Donald Trump on their conclusions that Russian Federation meddled in the presidential election on his behalf.
In the memo, which Comey shared with top Federal Bureau of Investigation associates, the former director wrote that Trump said, "I hope you can let this go", in relation to the inquiry into Flynn's actions.
Two U.S. officials said Trump shared the intelligence, supplied by a U.S. ally in the fight against the militant Islamist group, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak during an Oval Office meeting last Wednesday.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, sent a letter Tuesday evening to McCabe requesting all "memoranda, notes, summaries, and recordings referring or relating" to communications between Comey and Trump.
The Times reported that the conversation took place February 14.
The turmoil has overshadowed Republican legislative priorities such as healthcare and tax reform and laid bare sharp divisions between the White House and USA intelligence agencies, which concluded in January that Russian Federation had tried to influence the election in Trump's favor. "And the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known".
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The Republican chairman of the House oversight committee says he plans to demand that the Justice Department turn over all memos written by former FBI Director James Comey concerning his past meetings with President Donald Trump. "If the election were on October 27, I would have been your president", she tells a women's luncheon in NY.
However, Franks also said he would like Comey to testify. But he told senators: "I can't consider for a second whose political futures will be affected and in what way".
Mr. Comey created similar memos - including some that are classified - about every phone call and meeting he had with the president, the two people said.
May 9, 2017: Trump abruptly fires Comey. Trump said in a pair of tweets Tuesday that he had the "absolute right" to share "facts" with the Russians. The White House disputed the account.
Neither NBC News nor The Times has seen the actual memo. "While the President has repeatedly expressed his view that General Flynn is a decent man who served and protected our country, the President has never asked Mr. Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn", the White House said in a statement.
The highly classified information about an Islamic State plot was collected by Israel, a crucial source of intelligence and close partner in the fight against some of the America's fiercest threats in the Middle East. Trump's disclosure of the information threatened to fray that partnership and piled pressure on the White House to explain the apparently on-the-spot decision to reveal the information to Russian diplomats in the Oval Office.
Trump's acknowledgement that he had given sensitive information during a White House meeting last week undercut intense efforts by senior aides to play down the incident on Monday evening, after news reports emerged of Trump's conversations about a planned Islamic State operation.
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