President Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey. UNIDENTIFIED JOURNALIST: Breaking news tonight. But it was a decision by the president himself in early May that would truly turn official Washington on its head. ![]() Republicans, in contrast, took aim at those investigating the president and his associates. Democrats pointed to a lengthy list of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia, wondering whether they meant that Trump's aides had worked with the Kremlin as it interfered in the election. LUCAS: That announcement triggered what would become a bare-knuckle political fight on Capitol Hill. JAMES COMEY: I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. It was not until March of 2017 - two months after Donald Trump was sworn in as president of the United States - that the American public would learn about the probe when then-FBI Director James Comey testified before Congress. That investigation, code named Operation Crossfire Hurricane, remained a closely held secret through the end of the 2016 campaign. RYAN LUCAS, BYLINE: The investigation began in late July of 2016, when the FBI quietly opened its probe into possible links between the Trump campaign in Russia. NPR justice reporter Ryan Lucas takes us back to the beginning. ![]() And while fights over the report are going to keep going, this release is the culmination of investigations that go back nearly three years, reaching across continents and into President Trump's inner circle. ![]() Lawmakers and the public alike will get the chance to read for themselves what the special counsel unearthed, disregarded and concluded. We're expecting a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report to be released tomorrow.
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