| After President Trump suggested in a tweet there might be "tapes" of his conversations with James Comey, the former FBI director said he moved to make aspects of his memos public by enlisting a friend, a Columbia Law School professor, to share the content of his own notes with a reporter. Comey said that he hoped news reporting would prompt the "appointment of a special counsel.'' Indeed, the Justice Department appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to oversee the Russia probe just one day after the existence of the memos was disclosed.
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