Cathy Huynh - Transcripts detail how FBI debated whether Trump was 'following directions' of Russia

Summary: Following former FBI director James Comey's firing, a half-dozen senior FBI officials are planning to open an investigation into President Donald Trump that included trying to understand why he was acting in ways beneficial to Russia. They debated a range of possibilities, 1 end concludes that Trump fired Comey on Russia's directions. On the other, Trump doesn't have an improper relationship with Russia and was acting within the bounds of his executive powers. James Baker, then-FBI general counsel, said FBI officials were contemplating whether to regard Trump as "acting at the behest of and somehow following directions, somehow executing their will." "That was 1 extreme, the other extreme is that the President is completely innocent, and we discussed that too," Baker told House investigators last year. "There's a range of things this could possibly be. We need to investigate, because we don't know whether, you know, the worst-case scenario is possibly true or the President is totally innocent and we need to get this thing over with-- and so he can move forward with his agenda." Comey's firing wasn't the only thing that prompted the investigation into Trump, according to Times, as Trump subsequently tied Comey's firing to the Russia investigation on 2 separate occasions before the investigation started.

Source: Transcripts detail how FBI debated whether Trump was 'following directions' of Russia

Analysis: This article was produced by Jeremy Herb, Pamela Brown, and Laura Jarrett on January 14. It was updated at 6:33 AM EST, 5:33 AM our time. I did a current event on fbi investigations before on Trump's former administration members. I can connect the this scandal to president Grant's from the Gilded Age's scandals, they're both presidents who're in some serious scandals. This article is written for people questioning Trump's innocence. This article was written by 3 people, must've been hard to write by their self. This article was written, because this is a groundbreaking initiation of an investigation on our current president. This article is important, because this could impeach if if proven that he has been in an improper relationship with Russia.