Take a Memo: Fired former deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe wrote contemporaneous memos about his interactions with President Trump and then Director James Comey, The NY Times reports. The memos, which remain with the FBI, could provide backing for Comey and fodder for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who has access to the bureau notes.

Trump could be accused of obstruction of justice for firing Comey.

McCabe had at least three meetings with the President. In one, Trump asked McCabe how he voted in the presidential election. In all three meetings, he asked about McCabe’s wife, who lost a race as a Democrat for the Virginia State Senate. Trump has been enraged that Jill McCabe accepted contributions from major Democratic sources, even though she had every right to run for office.

Trump lawyer John Dowd emailed The Daily Beast yesterday, saying the McCabe firing should bring the Russia investigation to an end. “I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the F.B.I. Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt dossier,” Dowd wrote.

President Trump crowed on Twitter yesterday that McCabe’s firing was “a great day for democracy” and that “As the House Intelligence Committee has concluded, there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump Campaign. As many are now finding out, however, there was tremendous leaking, lying and corruption at the highest levels of the FBI, Justice & State.”

Former CIA Director John Brennan tweeted to Trump, “When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America…America will triumph over you.”

The Inside Line: Daniel Lippman, a reporter for Politico, tweeted, “The mood at the White House these days — a former Trump WH official texts me: “I’ve been trying to find jobs for some people still inside and nobody wants to hire a White House person. It’s toxic … Everyone inside is broken. … Everyone is resigned to the worst.”

Friend Request: A voter analytics company used by the Trump 2016 campaign mined Facebook for data, potentially collecting the demographics and opinions of millions of people.

In a technique now restricted, Cambridge Analytica, was able access basic demographics and the Facebook “likes” of all of the friends of 270,000 people who had downloaded an app called “thisisyourdigitallife.” If the people who downloaded the app had 100 to 200 “friends” each, that gave Cambridge access to the data on 25-50 million Facebook users.

Cambridge has been suspended from use of Facebook.

Some politicians say they are shocked, but collection of personal information for marketing purposes … and now politics … is the entire purpose of social media. They know that you had a burger at Shake Shack.

Bridge to Nowhere: Recovery workers have pulled three flattened cars from the rubble of the collapsed pedestrian bridge at Florida International University and recovered three bodies. The number of dead remains at 6.

Just hours before the collapse Thursday, the engineering company responsible for the bridge held a meeting to discuss a crack, according to a statement from the university released early yesterday. The engineering company, Figg Bridge Engineers “concluded there were no safety concerns and the crack did not compromise the structural integrity of the bridge,” the statement said.

The Obit Page: Nokie Edwards, whose guitar drove the electric-surf sound of the 1960s group The Ventures, has died at age 82 in Yuma, Az.

Edwards was playing lead guitar in Buck Owens’s country band when a couple of guys in Spokane, Wash. with little musical experience invited him to join their band, which became The Ventures. He brought a country twang to an electric representation of summer and the beach. In 1960 the band hit No. 2 on the Billboard chart with “Walk — Don’t Run,” just behind Elvis Presley’s “It’s Now or Never.” Some other familiar tunes; “Hawaii 5-0,” “Pipeline,” “Wipeout,” and “Telstar.”

Dewey Defeats Truman: They make politics so much simpler over there. Russian voters went to the polls today in an uncontested race to give President Vladimir Putin another six years in office. His slogan, his campaign slogan, “Strong president, strong Russia.” The “or else” is left unsaid.

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