Special counsel appointed in Russia probe
Jeremy Diamond
” White House didn’t want special counsel, Calls for a special counsel or prosecutor were rising after The New York Times and then CNN reported on excerpts of a memo Comey wrote in February, in which Comey wrote that Trump asked him to drop the FBI investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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