President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next FBI director said he wasn’t aware of Donald Trump Jr.’s email chain about a Russian lawyer that has consumed the media, but did stress the need for the FBI’s independence.
“I do not consider Director Mueller to be on a witch hunt,” Chris Wray says.
Christopher Wray also told senators Wednesday that he might “dig into” connections between Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the government of Ukraine.
And Wray, under questioning, didn’t rule out voicing support for new gun control measures.
Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee alternately used the confirmation hearing to …read more
Source: The Daily Signal