President Donald Trump’s first chief of staff asked James Comey directly whether federal law enforcement was surveilling then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, the now-former FBI director documented in a memo after the White House discussion.
In that Feb. 8, 2017, meeting, Comey writes that he also told Reince Priebus that the material from the so-called Christopher Steele dossier had been corroborated by other intelligence, redacted versions of Comey’s memos turned over to members of Congress reveal.
The Justice Department on Thursday reluctantly provided lawmakers with Comey’s memos under the threat of subpoena. NBC News obtained the 15-page document, which are Comey’s contemporaneous summaries of seven different interactions with Trump and other White House officials from early January 2017 until just…
