President Donald Trump speaks during a bill signing event for the “Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017” in the East Room of the White House, Friday, June 23, 2017, in Washington. The White House has sent a letter to the House Intelligence Committee that quotes President Donald Trump’s tweets about potential recordings of conversations between him and ousted FBI director James Comey. The committee had set a Friday deadline for the White House to say whether the president had recordings of his conversions with Comey, as Trump has suggested. Trump tweeted Thursday that he “did not make, and do not have, any such recordings.”The letter from White House legislative affairs director Marc Short refers Reps. Mike Conaway and Adam Schiff to the president’s tweets. ___6:40 p.m.President Donald Trump is faulting his predecessor’s handling of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.

Source: Washington Post June 23, 2017 22:51 UTC