Sen. James Lankford on Thursday asked former FBI Director James Comey to take back the notes he handed to a friend of his to be leaked to the New York Times, so they can be given to Congress, which has not seen them yet.
Comey admitted that he gave some of the memos describing his conversation with President Trump to a law professor at Columbia Law School. Lankford, R-Okla., then asked him if he could get those notes again.
“The individual that you told about your memos that then were sent on to the New York Times, do they have a copy of those memos?” Lankford asked. “Do they still have a copy of those memos?”
“It’s a good question,” Comey said. “I think so, I guess I can’t say for sure sitting here. I guess I don’t know, but I think so.”
“So the question is, could you ask them to hand that copy right back to you so you can hand them over to this committee?” Lankford asked.
“Potentially,” Comey replied.
“I would like to move that from potential to see if we can ask that question so we can have a copy of those. Obviously, those notes are exceptionally important to us,” Lankford said.
Professor Daniel C. Richman told the Washington Examiner that he is Comey’s friend who received the notes.
