INTERVIEW – JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former US Attorney to the District of Columbia

• NYT:  F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia. Agents and senior F.B.I. officials had grown suspicious of Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign but held off on opening an investigation into him, the people said, in part because they were uncertain how to proceed with an inquiry of such sensitivity and magnitude. But the president’s activities before and after Mr. Comey’s firing in May 2017, particularly two instances in which Mr. Trump tied the Comey dismissal to the Russia investigation, helped prompt the counterintelligence aspect of the inquiry, the people said.
• Trump blasts ‘insulting’ report on FBI probe into Russia ties. Trump slams ‘total sleaze’ Comey, ‘corrupt’ FBI leaders, after report bureau launched probe after director’s ouster
• ATTORNEY GENERAL CONFIRMATION HEARING THIS WEEK: William Barr, President Trump’s pick to be the next U.S. attorney general, is expected to be grilled this week during his Senate confirmation hearing before a sharply divided Senate Judiciary Committee … The committee has a new chairman, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and Barr on Tuesday will be facing several Democrats who may have 2020 presidential campaign ambitions, including Sen. Cory Booker on New Jersey, Kamala Harris of California and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.
• GINSBURG/SCOTUS: Ginsburg to miss next week’s Supreme Court sessions, but recovery ‘on track’