Reince Priebus (ryns PREE’-bus) tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Trump was very clear about his concerns over what he saw as Mueller’s possible conflicts of interest. But Priebus pushed back against a New York Times report that Trump ordered that Mueller be fired last June but backed off after the top White House lawyer threatened to resign.
Trump fired Priebus at the end of July.
Priebus says he never heard “the idea or the concept” that Mueller needed to be fired. He says he’d know the difference “between a Level 10 situation” and “what was reality.”
Priebus says the Times report “wasn’t reality.”
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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is slamming the release of a congressional memo that alleges FBI surveillance abuses in an investigation into the Trump campaign’s Russia ties.
Rep. Adam Schiff calls the four-page memo by committee chairman Devin Nunes (NOO’-nehs) a “political hit job.” The California Democrat said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that he requested that the committee first question the FBI and review the full supporting materials before releasing the memo, but Republicans voted his motions down.
