- Title: Wray confirmed by Senate to lead FBI after Comey firing
- Date: 1st August 2017
- Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JUNE 8, 2017) (UNRESTRICTED POOL) PAN FROM LEFT TO RIGHT OF FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY TO LAWMAKERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY SAYING: "I asked -- the president tweeted on Friday after I got fired that I better 'hope there's not tapes'. I woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night, because it didn't dawn on me originally, that there might be corroboration for our conversation there might be a tape. And my judgment was, I needed to get that out into the public square, and so I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons, but I asked him to, because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. And so I asked a close friend of mine to do it."
- Embargoed: 15th August 2017 22:51
- Keywords: FBI vote Senate Wray Trump
- Location: WASHINGTON, D.C, UNITED STATES
- City: WASHINGTON, D.C, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Lawmaking,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0046SBTQ2V
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:The U.S. Senate on Tuesday (August 1) confirmed former Justice Department lawyer Christopher Wray as FBI chief, nearly three months after the agency's previous director, James Comey, was fired by President Donald Trump.
Wray, who was confirmed by vote of 92-5, will take charge of the country's top domestic law enforcement agency during a federal probe into allegations of collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia. - Copyright Holder: POOL (CAN SELL)
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