House panel demands President Trump release Comey 'tapes'

Congress wants to know if President Donald Trump taped his conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey. A House panel led by Reps Mike Conaway (R-TX) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) sent a letter to White House counsel Don McGahn demanding the release of any "tapes" of conversations between Comey and President Trump.

The president first suggested the existence of such tapes after Comey revealed that he wrote memos of his private conversations with President Trump leading up to his firing. Reps Conaway and Schiff are representing the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's Russia investigation, and a separate bipartisan group of Senate Judiciary Committee members led by Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) also sent letters requesting the notes Comey wrote documenting the same meetings with Trump. The Senate group requested the memos from Professor Daniel Richman, the friend Comey gave his notes to, and the House group requested any memos still in Comey's possession. Reps Schiff and Conaway provided a deadline of June 23.