Memo to Watergate
Air Force One on a flight home from Europe last July, President Trump and his advisers raced to cobble together a news release about a mysterious meeting at Trump Tower the previous summer between Russians and top Trump campaign officials. Rather than acknowledge the meeting\u2019s intended purpose \u2014 to obtain political dirt about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government \u2014 the statement instead described the meeting as being about an obscure Russian adoption policy. Mark Corallo, who served as a spokesman for Mr. Trump\u2019s legal team before resigning in July. Mr. Corallo received an interview request last week from the special counsel and has agreed to the interview, according to three people with knowledge of the request.\n\n\xa0Mr. Corallo is planning to tell Mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with Mr. Trump and Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, according to the three people. Mr. Corallo planned to tell investigators that Ms. Hicks said during the call that emails written by Donald Trump Jr. before the Trump Tower meeting \u2014 in which the younger Mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians \u2014 \u201cwill never get out.\u201d That left Mr. Corallo with concerns that Ms. Hicks could be contemplating obstructing justice.NYT\n\nWe have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo\u2019s accuracy,\u201d the FBI said.