Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” former FBI Director James Comey defended the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Comey said, “We got here in terms of the FBI’s investigation because we learned in late July of ’16, from an allied ambassador who had a conversation with a Trump foreign policy advisor about that advisor’s conversations about the fact the Russians had dirt and looking for ways to share it, to coordinate it their use of it with the Trump campaign and what started it in late July.”
When asked about the inspector general investigation on the origins Russian probe, Comey said, “I don’t know exactly what all of those people are looking at. The reason we started it is plain and transparent, laid out in the special counsel’s report and frankly, we all should have been fired if we didn’t investigate that kind of lead to figure out, is there an American connection to this massive Russian effort. I don’t know what people are looking at beyond that. I suppose we will find out at some point.”
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