The Note: Memo to Trump: The unraveling has begun

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here. May 17, 2017 MORE POLITICS > Memo to Trump: The unraveling has begun Analysis - ABC's Rick Klein In the space of a week, more has been revealed - and more has come unraveled – than in the entirety of the hectic first four months of the Trump presidency. The main data points fit the common Trump-era description of being shocking yet not surprising. In other words, President Trump stands accused of doing things it's easy to imagine President Trump doing. (He and his White House have already admitted to conduct – firing James Comey while considering the Russia investigation, sharing sensitive terrorism-related information with the Russians, and shifting public explanations for those moves along the way – that fit that description.) But the Comey memo, and any other records that may exist documenting the former FBI director's conversations with the president, will take things to a new level, one where terms like "constitutional crisis" and "obstruction of justice" take on new relevance. This is the action that may be a step too far for the president's reluctant defenders on Capitol Hill, forcing a paralyzed presidency to turn inward at this critical moment. Republicans' inability or unwillingness to defend what is essentially indefensible adds to a crisis atmosphere in Washington. But for all the speed of the past week's developments, the process may need to slow down – congressional hearings, investigative findings, perhaps even a special prosecutor – for this to play out. Trump's brand is chaos. But this is well beyond anything he has reckoned with before. On GMA: We need to get those notes,' Rep. Adam Schiff says about Comey's memo House Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Adam Schiff today said that Congress needs to determine whether President Donald Trump asked then-FBI director James Comey to end the agency's probe into ties between former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russia, ABC's MORGAN WINSOR notes. "We don't really know what took place here and we need to find out," Schiff, D-Calif., said on "Good Morning America." "We need to get those notes, if they exist, that director Comey took of this conversation." http://abcn.ws/2pK4UqR READ MORE   Powerhouse Politics Podcast - Former CIA, NSA director on Trump: 'A president that really doesn't do a lot of homework' As controversies continue to engulf the White House -- including a report that President Donald Trump revealed classified information with Russian officials last week -- one of the country's foremost leaders in the intelligence community is questioning how the commander in chief can get "up-to-speed" on the intricacies of his position. "How does the president learn?" General Michael Hayden, a former director of both the NSA and CIA, asked during an interview on the "Powerhouse Politics" podcast with ABC's JONATHAN KARL and RICK KLEIN. "The security establishment then, after discovering that, has to find the right techniques to get inside the president's head." ABC's ADAM KELSEY has more: http://abcn.ws/2qqZwrb READ MORE   Trump's disclosure endangered spy placed inside ISIS by Israel, officials say The life of a spy placed by Israel inside ISIS is at risk, according to current and former U.S. officials, after President Donald Trump reportedly disclosed classified information in a meeting with Russian officials last week, ABC's BRIAN ROSS, JAMES GORDON MEEK and RANDY KREIDER report. The spy provided intelligence involving an active ISIS plot to bring down a passenger jet en route to the United States, with a bomb hidden in a laptop that U.S. officials believe can get through airport screening machines undetected. The information was reliable enough that the U.S. is considering a ban on laptops on all flights from Europe to the United States. The sensitive intelligence was shared with the United States, officials say, on the condition that the source remain confidential. http://abcn.ws/2qtDq5D READ MORE   Comey documented Trump request to drop Flynn investigation in memo: Source James Comey, the recently fired FBI director, was asked by President Donald Trump to end an investigation into the actions of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, according to a memo Comey wrote about his conversation with the president, a source close to the former director confirmed to ABC News. In the memo, which Comey shared with top FBI associates, the former director wrote that Trump said, "I hope you can let this go," in relation to the inquiry into Flynn's actions, report ABC's PIERRE THOMAS and CECILIA VEGA. http://abcn.ws/2qtuRI7 READ MORE   Lawmakers respond to report that Trump asked Comey to drop Flynn probe For the second consecutive day Tuesday, the White House pushed back on a breaking news report, this time that President Donald Trump requested in February that then-FBI Director James Comey drop the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. In the aftermath of the news, members of Congress on both sides of the aisle called for the memo to be seen and for Comey to testify. ABC's ADAM KELSEY catalogs what lawmakers said about the latest report: http://abcn.ws/2pUQG1r READ MORE   What we know about Trump's alleged disclosures to Russian officials The bombshell report that President Donald Trump allegedly shared highly classified intelligence with Russian officials has prompted a number of statements from his top advisers and Trump himself. Questions continue to swirl in the wake of the allegations, reported first by The Washington Post on Monday afternoon. ABC's MEGHAN KENEALLY has a roundup of the facts that have emerged. http://abcn.ws/2qquGiI READ MORE   FOLLOW ABC NEWS You Might Like This email was sent to bamsdum.xiomi@blogger.com Please do not reply to this email as this address is not monitored. Newsletter Unsubscribe If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter "Political Unit: The Note" at this email address, you may click here to unsubscribe. 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