When will Comey break silence?
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GOP congressman says fired FBI director may testify next week
Robert Mueller gets to work on Russia investigation
GOP congressman: Comey may break his silence as early as next week
(CNN)A
Republican congressman said Thursday night that Congress and the nation
may be just days away from James Comey breaking his silence after being
fired as FBI director by President Donald Trump.
Rep.
Will Hurd of Texas sits on the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee, which invited Comey to testify next week. Asked on CNN's
"Outfront" if he believed Comey is still going to testify, Hurd told
Erin Burnett, "I'm pretty confident he is. And that hearing may be as
soon as the 24th of May."
A senior GOP source
previously told CNN it was unlikely Comey would testify publicly now
that former FBI Director Robert Mueller has been named special counsel
for the investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and
Russian officials.
Hurd also disagreed with the President's comments on Thursday that the appointment of a special counsel "hurts our country."
"The
special counsel is a move that's going to make sure that the American
people can be satisfied with however this ends," he said. "We've got to
make sure that this is done the right way, that we don't react, that we
show restraint, that we get to all the facts so that we can be proud of
what happens in this investigation."
Hurd
added that Mueller is someone who is respected by both sides of the
aisle in Congress and, "He has the right law enforcement and legal
background to understand the gravity of this situation and to do it in a
thorough way."
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