From the article:
Previous reporting indicates that Baker is one of very few senior officials with whom Comey consulted after Trump leaned on him to clear his name in the Russia probe.

Vox reported that Baker, along with Comey chief of staff Jim Rybicki and then-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, were told about the encounter between Trump and Comey.

Comey has testified to Congress that Trump demanded that he show him loyalty, drop the investigation into Michael Flynn, and publicly clear Trump of involvement in the Russia scandal.

Comey refused to bend to Trump’s pressure and was fired after.

Vox reporter Murry Waas said his source, a senior law enforcement official familiar with the Trump-Comey-Baker saga, told him that Baker “had more than one discussion” about Trump’s reported attempts to coerce Comey before firing him. His source also said Baker “almost certainly made extensive notes about those deliberations.”

OnDoutside

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5. And it was Wray who moved Baker. So much for independence.

Reply to iluvtennis (Original post)

Fri Dec 22, 2017, 03:55 AM

Dec 2017

ffr

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6. This whole thing about when tRump knew about Flynn lying and who saw him and what docs recorded it

Reply to iluvtennis (Original post)

Fri Dec 22, 2017, 05:14 AM

Dec 2017

is really eating away at tRump's legal team tonight.

Something big is going on, which is why republicons and their RW media masters are acting out hysterically over the past week or so and why Jeff Sessions and Devin Nunes have un-recussed themselves and are now fully in on defending tRump from the Russian investigation.

MSNBC has been reporting on it all evening.

Historic moment for our country right now.

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