Other developments

No wiretap

— NBC News corrected a story Thursday that said federal investigators had placed a wiretap on the phone lines of President Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, saying it subsequently learned that the feds were only monitoring the source of calls and weren’t listening in. NBC moved its original story online shortly after 1 p.m. on Thursday, and it became immediate fodder on MSNBC and other cable networks. The correction was issued online at 5:27 p.m. with an editor’s note to the rewritten story.

Avoid Ivanka

— Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the recent addition to President Donald Trump’s legal team, has a warning for special counsel Robert Mueller: Steer clear of Ivanka Trump. In his freewheeling interview Wednesday night with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, Giuliani said the country would “turn” on Mueller if he went after the president’s eldest daughter, who is also a White House adviser, as part of his investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Comey responds

— Former FBI Director James Comey chastised Rudy Giuliani, a recent addition to President Donald Trump’s legal team, on Thursday for referring to FBI agents in New York as “stormtroopers” during a television interview. “I know the New York FBI,” Comey, who once served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, wrote on Twitter on Thursday morning. “There are no ‘stormtroopers’ there; just a group of people devoted to the rule of law and the truth.”