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 to assure him that the FBI was not investigating him personally. Comey recalled he did not want the President-Elect to think of the conversation as a "J. Edgar Hoover move."

On January 10, 2017, the media reported that Comey had briefed the President-Elect on the Steele reporting, and BuzzFeed News published information compiled by Steele online, stating that the information included "specific, unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump aides and Russian operatives." The next day, the President-Elect expressed concern to intelligence community leaders about the fact that the information had leaked and whether they could make public statements refuting the allegations in the Steele reports.

In the following weeks, three Congressional committees opened investigations to examine Russia's interference in the election and whether the Trump Campaign had colluded with Russia. On January 13, 2017, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCT) announced that it would conduct a bipartisan inquiry into Russian interference in the election, including any "links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns. On January 25, 2017, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) announced that it had been conducting an investigation into Russian election interference and possible coordination with the political campaigns. And on February 2, 2017, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced that it too would investigate Russian efforts to intervene in the election.