{"id":69644,"date":"2017-03-25T07:56:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T11:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69644"},"modified":"2017-03-25T07:56:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T11:56:48","slug":"fbi-director-comey-visits-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69644","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Comey visits White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BY JORDAN FABIAN<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1077863425\/ryWOznDex_default\/index.html?videoId=5371799351001\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>FBI Director James Comey was at the White House on Friday, days after he confirmed his bureau is investigating ties between associates of President Trump and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said Comey visited to attend a \u201croutine interagency meeting,\u201d but did not say with whom he met.<\/p>\n<p>No meeting with Comey was listed on the president&#8217;s public schedule. Comey was spotted leaving the White House less than an hour later after television cameras showed him entering the West Wing.<\/p>\n<p>Jones went on air to read a statement where he personally apologized to the owner of Comet Ping Pong. (Flickr<\/p>\n<p>The director on Monday made a bombshell revelation during testimony before the House Intelligence Committee that the FBI is probing whether members of Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign and transition team cooperated with Moscow\u2019s efforts to meddle in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Comey also said he has seen no evidence to back up Trump\u2019s claim that former President Obama ordered Trump Tower wiretapped during the election.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI director&#8217;s last known visit to the White House came two days after Trump\u2019s inauguration, when the president warmly shook his hand at a reception for first responders and law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n<p>Updated: 3:18 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/325670-fbi-director-comey-visits-white-house\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/325670-fbi-director-comey-visits-white-house<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}