FBI/JAMES COMEY/POLITICS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, on Wednesday [5-10-17] defended President Trump’s firing of the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, resisting Democratic calls to challenge the president and support a broader inquiry of Russian interference in the election.
‘Today we’ll no doubt hear calls for a new investigation,’ Mr. McConnell said on the Senate floor, ‘which can only serve to impede the current work being done.’
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, frontally questioned Mr. Trump’s stated rationale for dismissing Mr. Comey and renewed a call for the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor.”
-Jennifer Steinhaur, and Matt Flegenheimer, “McConnell Defends Trump as Schumer Calls for Special Prosecutor,” The New York Times online, May 10, 2017