Thread by @LoopEmma

In another bit of good luck, we just got the next batch of #Muellermemos 35 minutes earlier than we usually do! We’re going to start reading through. You can read them here: buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…

I’m starting with a June 2017 summary of an interview with James Rybicki, former FBI Director James Comey’s chief of staff.

The interview recounts what happened the day before Comey testified before the Senate Intel Committee that month.

Earlier that day, FBI agents had visited Comey’s home to provide him materials to review before his testimony. More on that from a previous batch:

Rybicki 302: "Sometime later, Rybicki remembered a personal e-mail he received from Corney via Rybicki's personal e-mail address. In this e-mail, Corney listed the interactions Comey had with Trump.”

Comey was criticized by the DOJ IG for his personal email usage while FBI director. It’s unclear to me when this email was written, but it’s not cited in the IG report.

If during his tenure, could be a new example of Comey using personal email for work.

buzzfeednews.com/article/talala…

New colour on Comey’s firing: It’s been reported that the day after, Trump called Andrew McCabe, upset that Comey had been allowed to fly back to DC on the FBI plane.

Rybicki said McCabe told him on the night of the firing itself that "Trump was upset” about the plane.

Here’s that story: nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

It’s mentioned in the Mueller report, but sourced largely to McCabe, who seems to recount it a bit differently — saying Trump called him the next day — or maybe Trump said he was mad about the plane twice.

What’s great about the 302s is the additional detail we get — the Rybicki 302 says Trump was “upset," while the Mueller report states only that Trump "told McCabe that Comey should not have been permitted to travel back to Washington, D.C. on the FBI's airplane."

Next Rybicki 302: "It would be very difficult for someone to inform the President a topic of conversation was inappropriate, such as the conversation during which Corney informed the President Flynn was a good guy."

After Trump met with Comey alone in the Oval to talk about Flynn, Comey and Rybicki met with AG Sessions about preventing further meetings like that.

After, "Rybicki expressed to Corney his concern that he didn't think Sessions really understood the point of Corney's message"

Rybicki told then-acting AG for the Russia investigation Dana Boente in April 2017 that WH counsel might call about the probe.

"Boente said something along line of, 'I was hoping he had forgotten about that', or words to that effect."

Here’s the 302 where lawyers for Michael Flynn inform Mueller’s team of a voicemail from Trump attorney John Dowd that Mueller later investigated as part of the obstruction probe.

This 302 mentions Cobb — I don’t think we’ve seen him linked to this incident yet.