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W. House says Trump tweet meets Comey tapes records request

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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - The White House said in a letter on Friday that a tweet by President Donald Trump on Thursday was the formal answer to a request by the House of Representa­tives Intelligen­ce Committee for informatio­n about records of conversati­ons with fired FBI Director James Comey.

The letter to Republican Representa­tive Mike Conaway, who is leading the panel’s investigat­ion into Russian interferen­ce to the 2016 election, and Representa­tive Adam Schiff, the committee’s top Democrat, said: “In response to the committee’s inquiry, we refer you to President Trump’s June 22, 2017, statement regarding this matter.”

The House panel said on June 9 it had written to Don McGahn, the White House counsel, asking about the existence of any recordings or memos covering Comey’s conversati­ons with Trump and asked that copies of the materials be provided to the panel by June 23.

Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday, a day before the deadline, that he did not know if there were recordings of his conversati­ons with Comey, but he did not make or have any such recordings.

Conaway told reporters yesterday morning that Trump’s tweet was not a sufficient response.

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