Here's a snippet that will shed some light on this matter.
But Mr. Sessions said the fact contact occurred between law enforcement agencies and the White House was not inherently improper.“The FBI and Department of Justice have to remain independent and they will do so,” Mr. Sessions said Monday during a brief question and answer session with reporters at the Justice Department. “But every contact is not improper.”
White House officials said last week that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus on Feb. 15 after a meeting on an unrelated matter that a New York Times story on alleged contact between Trump campaign officials and Russia last year was not accurate. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Mr. Priebus asked Mr. McCabe to tell the media about it, but both he and FBI Director James B. Comey declined.
The contact between the FBI and the White House has been characterized as unusual by former administration officials, including former CIA director John O. Brennan. Meanwhile Democrats have pressed for an independent investigation of ties between Russia and Trump campaign officials during the presidential campaign, saying Mr. Priebus’ conversation with a top FBI official is a hindrance to any impartial investigation.
Source: Washington Times
Thanks. Priebus, then, not Spicer. Spicer was the public messenger.
So, it took place and neither Comey nor McCabe will verify to the press.
Count me as a war-weary citizen very exhausted from deliberate destruction of trust. However, to any pro-opposition lurkers (or FReepers) reading this: my trust in Trump is not altered. You have managed to make me hate _you_, the Deep State operatives trying to make my country ungovernable because power has passed from you to the formerly-oppressed people who voted against you and your agenda. You can all BTFO.