Article snippet: Top House Republicans have given the President Trump, according to congressional aides and a DOJ official. On Friday, ahead of Comey’s first television interview and media tour where he has criticized President Trump’s conduct in office and likened his behavior to that of a mafia boss seeking loyalty, Reps. Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia, and Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, asked Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein for both un-redacted and de-classified forms of Comey’s memos. While a select number of senators, House members and staff have been allowed to read the memos, they have not been made available to the full membership of the House Intelligence, Oversight and Judiciary Committees. "I think they ought to be released publicly, but they certainly ought to be released to Congress," Gowdy, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee and a member of the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, said on an interview with Fox News last week. In his interview with ABC News’s George Stephanopolous, Comey said he documented “nearly every encounter” with Trump, writing classified memos regarding some meetings, and unclassified memos on his personal computer for unclassified encounters. Comey said he asked a friend to leak one of the memos – which included details from a meeting with Trump where Comey says the president asked him to shut down the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn – when he was concerned that the president may... Link to the full article to read more