FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “After a New York Times report revealed that former FBI Director James Comey kept memos detailing the president’s attempt to derail the FBI’s Russia investigation, a former White House adviser for multiple presidents says Trump is ‘in impeachment territory.’
The Times report highlighted one particular note from a February meeting between Comey and Trump claiming the president asked the former FBI director to ‘let this go,’ in regard to the Russia investigation.
‘I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,’ Mr. Trump told Mr. Comey, according to the memo. ‘He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.’
David Gergen served as a top adviser under Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, and said on CNN that, if true, this note evidences that the president tried to ‘impede the investigation.’…
‘This is the most significant evidence to date of the president’s efforts to try and influence this incredibly politically sensitive investigation into ties between his associates and Russia,’ said Schmidt on NYT’s Wednesday episode of The Daily podcast. ‘I think that if there’s nothing to the Russia stuff and to the accusations about ties between his associates and Russia and any meddling in the election, the president has done a very good at creating the appearance that there is something there.’ “
-Christina Gregg, “Former Reagan adviser warns President Trump is ‘in impeachment territory’,” Aol.com, May 17, 2017 12:48pm