the trump campaign? i explains the demands from the leadership from both parties in congress for more information and that senator grassley had even held up the confirmation of a deputy attorney general until he briefed him in detail on the investigation. i explained that we had briefed the leadership of congress on exactly which individuals we were investigating, and that we had told those congressional leaders that we were not personally investigating president trump. i reminded him i had previously told him that. he repeatedly told me we need to get that fact out. i did not tell the president that the fbi and the department of justice had been reluctant to make public statements that we did not have an open kay on president trump for a number of reasons, most importantly because it would create a duty to correct should that change. the president went on to say that if there were some satellite associates of his who did something wrong, it would be good to find that out, but that he