White House on edge: 'We are kind of helpless'
White House officials spent early Tuesday wondering who was leaking
details of President Donald Trump’s classified conversations with
Russian officials about intelligence shared by the Israelis, and moving
to contain the fallout ahead of Trump’s planned trip to Jerusalem next
week. They spent the evening facing a report that before he fired FBI
director James Comey, Trump directly asked him to stop investigating the
Trump campaign’s Russia ties—and worrying what else might yet be
revealed.
“Nobody knows where this really goes from here,” the White House
official said. “Everyone is walking around saying, ‘What is next?’” ***
Trump was furious about the story, one of the officials said, but
retreated to the White House residence within 75 minutes of it going
online – leaving aides to “figure out how bad the fallout was.”
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