White House: Trump Won't Name FBI Director Before Foreign Trip
President Donald Trump said he is "very close" to naming a new FBI director as he prepares to embark on his first foreign trip in office.
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President Donald Trump said he is "very close" to naming a new FBI director as he prepares to embark on his first foreign trip in office.
Responding to questions from reporters during a joint press conference with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday afternoon, the president criticized the decision to appoint former FBI Director Robert Mueller to oversee the investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Former FBI Robert Mueller has been appointed to serve as special counsel to oversee the previously confirmed investigation of Russian efforts to influential the 2016 presidential election and related matters.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is standing behind President Donald Trump as the administration deals with questions about Russia and the recent firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Sources told CBS News late Tuesday that President Donald Trump asked then-FBI Director James Comey to end an investigation focusing on former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that President Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey had to be done, even if the president's timing would look "detrimental to himself and prolong the investigation."
Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Garcia and Alice Fisher are among the more than two dozen lawmakers, attorneys, and law enforcement officials emerging as candidates for the the next director of the FBI.
Four candidates to be the bureau's director were in line Saturday for the first interviews with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, at Justice Department headquarters.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer declined to say Friday whether President Donald Trump taped conversations he had with fired FBI Director James Comey.
New information was surfacing Thursday about former FBI Director James Comey's relationship with President Donald Trump, two days after Comey was fired.
The FBI director had been leading the probe into links between the Trump campaign and Russia and the role the Russians may have played in influencing the presidential election.
The president's decision to fire the FBI director came as the agency has been investigating whether Trump's presidential campaign was connected to Russian meddling in the election.
The president criticized the Connecticut Democrat for past statements that he served in Vietnam, saying he "devised one of the greatest military frauds in U.S. history."
President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey Tuesday afternoon, relieving him of all duties effective immediately.
Comey told members of the committee that when he received word that there were "thousands of Secretary Clinton's emails" on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner he faced a choice: To say something or to conceal it.
Testifying before Congress, the FBI Director said the investigation includes any potential coordination between Trump campaign associates and Russia's government.
FBI directors are appointed to 10-year terms intended to carry across presidential administrations, even when a new party takes over the White House.
Trump released a statement soon after the intelligence leaders' report on Russian's alleged hacking attempts to influence the presidential election.
A federal judge in New York has ordered the public release of the search warrant that FBI agents used to reopen their investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server just weeks before the presidential election.
FBI director told Congress the review of additional Clinton emails does not change their conclusion that she should not face charges.
With less than a week until Election Day, both candidates are warning of dire consequences if the other is elected.
With exactly a week to go before Election Day, Hillary Clinton was trying to turn the tables on Donald Trump Tuesday.
Hillary Clinton enters the final full week of the presidential race on defense once again over her use of a private email system.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder is assailing FBI Director James Comey for divulging that the bureau has reopened its investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails.
Investigators have not yet secured a search warrant to begin examining the emails found on a laptop shared by Anthony Weiner and long-time Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, which may be pertinent to the FBI's investigation into Clinton's private email server.
