Morning Joe blasts White House for asking FBI to 'clean up' Russia leaks
TRAVIS GETTYS
24 FEB 2017 AT 08:58 ET
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was shocked by reports that the White House chief of staff asked FBI officials to walk back claims that the Trump campaign team communicated regularly with Russian intelligence.
Reince Priebus privately asked FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to knock down inaccurate media reports about the Russia contacts, reported CNN, and the same White House official told the network that President Donald Trump’s chief of staff also asked FBI Director James Comey to authorize investigators to dispute the stories.
Scarborough and his “Morning Joe” co-panelists agreed the request was improper — but not surprising.
“Why would anybody at the White House be allowed to talk to the FBI, or vice versa, if they’re in the middle of an investigation?” Scarborough said. “I can understand taking somebody aside and saying, ‘Hey, listen, you’re going to see something in the press,’ but this directly relates to the White House. There has to be a Chinese wall here.”
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