House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday that his job is to “let the facts go wherever they are” in the investigation of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
“We have an investigation in the House. We have an investigation in the Senate. My job is to make sure we don’t prejudge anything and let the facts go wherever they are — wherever they may be,” Ryan said during an interview on MSNBC.
In planned testimony published Wednesday, which Comey will deliver to lawmakers on Thursday, he talks of President Trump pressuring him to lay off his investigation into former national security adviser Mike Flynn and Trump telling him that “I expect loyalty.”
When asked if it was appropriate for the president to ask for a question of loyalty from the FBI director, Ryan responded, “No. Obviously I don’t think that is.”
Comey was fired by Trump on May 9 and will testify about his interactions with Trump regarding the Russian investigation.
“This is something that Bob Mueller I think is looking at. Rod Rosenstein who is the acting attorney general in this particular case who is the deputy attorney general, he has asked the independent counsel to look into this very specific issue and the firing of Comey,” Ryan said.
Former FBI Director Bob Mueller is now overseeing the federal investigation.
