Title: FBI probing alleged Trump campaign collusion with Russia | Daily Mail Online
Headings: FBI director rocks White House by confirming investigation into whether Trump campaign colluded with Russia's spies - and says Putin DID want to help Trump beat Clinton
FBI director rocks White House by confirming investigation into whether Trump campaign colluded with Russia's spies - and says Putin DID want to help Trump beat Clinton
Comey confirms FBI's investigating alleged Russian interference
Comey says 'no information to support Trump's wiretap claims'
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer ripped the idea of collusion.
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Content: Although he said he wouldn't reveal classified information about the investigation, Comey backed up an intelligence community conclusion that the Kremlin wanted Donald Trump to win the election. 'I think that was a fairly easy judgment for the (intelligence) community,' Comey said. ' Putin hated Secretary Clinton so much that the flip side of that coin was he had a clear preference for the person running against the person he hated so much. +2
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FBI Director James Comey confirmed publicly that the FBI is investigating 'the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government
Comey dropped his bombshell by confirming the investigation at the top of a public hearing Monday, where he fielded questions from Democrats about Russia and from Republicans about potentially felonious leaking of classified information that ended up in the press. 'I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts,' said Comey. Comey declined multiple efforts by lawmakers to get him to reveal whether specific individuals were being looked at as part of the probe, and explained that normal procedure is not to even confirm the existence of an investigation. 'I know that is extremely frustrating to some folks, but it is the way it has to be,' he said. He noted that the existence of an investigation doesn't mean charges will be brought. Top panel Democrat Adam Schiff of California spoke at length about a list of Trump campaign Russia ties, after pointing to what he called 'circumstantial evidence' of collusion with Russia over the weekend. Comey confirms FBI's investigating alleged Russian interference
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