Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein told the full Senate he knew that former Director James B. Comey would be fired before he wrote his controversial memo that the White House initially used as justification for President Trump firing the FBI director. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) said that Rosenstein told the senators that he knew on Monday, the day before Comey was fired, that Trump was going to fire him. He also told them that he was not pressured into writing his memo. “He learned the president’s decision to fire him and then he wrote his memo with his rationale,” Durbin said. read more https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...1f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.b14f4da02501
