MPR News Update

MPR News Update, PM Edition for May 12, 2017

Good afternoon. In a tweetstorm this morning, the president issued an apparent warning to James Comey, the former FBI director he fired earlier this week. Trump wrote that Comey should hope there are no "tapes" of their talks. That follows a New York Times report that Trump pressed Comey for a pledge of loyalty during dinner in January. Comey declined.

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