For whom Komi calls

Former FBI director James Komi agreed to appear at the open hearings of the US Senate Committee, the Washington Post reports . The hearings will be held after the day of commemoration celebrated in the United States on May 29.

According to the committee chairman Richard Burr and Senator Mark Warner, they want to learn from Komi about his role in the investigation of Russia's intervention in the 2016 presidential election.

A source close to the ex-director of the FBI told CNN that, according to Komi, President Donald Trump put pressure on him in connection with the investigation. At the same time, the source emphasized that it would be difficult to prove Trump's intention to prevent justice.

Before the dismissal of Komi, he did not talk about Trump's attempts to influence him, but mentioned the violations by the president of the adopted protocol.

This week there was information that Trump asked Komi to terminate the investigation against Michael Flynn. He resigned from the post of presidential security adviser on February 13, after it became known that he was misinformed by the Vice President Michael Pence regarding the details of his conversations with the Russian ambassador to Washington Sergei Kislyak.

Meanwhile, long before the interception of the December conversation, Flynn with the Russian ambassador, the US intelligence knew about his "special relations" with Moscow, told CNN a former employee of the Barack Obama administration. According to the US intelligence services, Russian officials even talked about Flynne as their ally before the elections.

These "special relations" developed during 2016, CNN said. Flynn's lawyer refused to comment on this.

On the eve of The New York Times, Trump's commentary on the dismissal of Komi, who sounded at a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov and Kislyak, quoted . “I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, real crazy,” the publication quotes the transcript of the meeting. “I experienced tremendous pressure because of Russia. It ended.” Trump arrived that the investigation was not conducted in his regard.

The press secretary of the White House Sean Spicer did not deny the content of the transcript. He stated that Komi exerted “excessive pressure” on the president, interfering with negotiations with Russia on issues related to Syria, Ukraine and the “Islamic state”.

Trump's meeting with Lavrov and Kislyak took place in the White House oval office on May 10, the day after the dismissal of Komi. Trump made the decision to send the head of the FBI to the resignation of the US Ministry of Justice. It was reported that Komi had previously demanded significant additional funds from the deputy minister of justice to investigate the influence of Russia and spoke about his meeting with him to congressmen.