James Comey fired one day before US-Russia meetings

Published May 10, 2017 12:49am ET



President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday evening, just a day before Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was set to meet with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Trump himself in the White House.

Those meetings are likely to come under even more scrutiny from Democrats, many of whom are worried that Comey’s firing puts at risk a fair investigation into what they say are Trump’s close ties to Russia.

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