House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said, "I have my subpoena pen ready," amid reports that fired FBI director James Comey kept memos of conversations with President Donald Trump - one of which suggested Trump asked Comey to drop an investigation into ousted national security adviser Mike Flynn. "[The House Oversight Committee] is going to get the Comey memo, if it exists.

Apparently the Democratic Party press has anti-Trump stories lined up and ready to drop every two or three days. The latest comes from the New York Times , which headlines: "Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation."

It will be "very hard" to find a new FBI Director "willing" to do the job now says former CIA Director James Woolsey https://t.co/KN7f3Q4RgX Former CIA Director James Woolsey said Sunday the events of the past week will likely make it more difficult to find qualified candidates to step into the vacated FBI director role. "I think it's going to be very hard to find a good FBI director who is willing to operate under the circumstances that we've seen this week," Woolsey said on CNN's " Fareed Zarkaria GPS ."

"Well, the difficulty, and I look at this as former prosecutor, can you prove obstruction based on the president's own words when we don't know whether we can believe this president?" Schiff told CBS's "Face the Nation." Schiff, who is leading the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into Russia's attempts to interfere in the election along with Rep. Mike Conaway , said if tapes of Comey's conversations with Trump exist, as the president has suggested, then Congress should obtain them.

Last week, President Trump created a media firestorm by sending out a tweet in which he seemed to warn Jim Comey against leaking stories about their conversations, lest he be contradicted by recorded evidence of the actual exchanges. Some journalists have taken the tweet to imply that Trump himself may have actually taped the exchanges covertly, la Richard Nixon, or was making a bluff to that effect, either way broadcasting a thuggish threat to punish the former FBI director if he dared contradict the president's version of what transpired between them.

Trump told reporters aboard the Air Force One as he embarked on a visit to Lynchburg, Virginia that a decision may come as soon as before he starts his first oversea trip next Friday. "Even that is possible," he told reporters when asked whether he could unveil his nominee by Friday to succeed James Comey, whose abrupt dismissal has sparked a major media firestorm and much disagreement.