Pressure builds on Trump to release Dem countermemo

The following article by Katie Bo Williams and Jordan Fabian was posted on the HillI website February 7, 2018:

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President Trump is under mounting pressure to allow the release of a Democratic rebuttal to a GOP memo that alleges bias in the FBI’s handling of the Russia investigation.

Trump has until Friday to block the publication of the 10-page document, which right now remains classified. The White House has played coy about whether Trump will allow it to become public.

The president met with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Tuesday to review the document and “discuss some of the differences” with the GOP document, according to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Continue reading “Pressure builds on Trump to release Dem countermemo”