A court order on Tuesday forced the Justice Department to provide a transcript of the hearing to CNN as part of a lawsuit over access to the Comey memos. At the time of the late January hearing, several other witnesses to the Comey developments had already spoken to Mueller. Shortly after the meetings with Comey, Trump and the White House had publicly contradicted the FBI director's story, saying the President denied asking him about "letting Flynn go." In January 2018, CNN and other media organizations were fighting for access to the Comey memos under the Freedom of Information Act. Redacted versions of the Comey memos became public in April 2018 after Congress received copies of them.

Source: CNN May 07, 2019 23:09 UTC