Live updates: Trump to visit Fed; Graham, Cornyn want probe of Obama's 2016 election role

President Trump on Thursday afternoon will take a tour of the Federal Reserve. It's possible he's visiting to see for himself the multibillion-dollar renovation of which has stoked calls for Chair Jerome Powell's resignation.

Earlier Thursday, two Senate Republicans called for a special counsel to investigate whether former President Obama helped an effort to undermine President Trump’s 2016 White House bid.

Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) are pushing for the appointment, saying they want answers about how Obama and his administration “manipulated” matters in the hopes of a Hillary Clinton victory in 2016.

It follows the White House's Wednesday release of documents related to Russia's effort to influence the 2016 election. That has prompted criticism that the administration is seeking a distraction.

The White House is attempting to move on from the Jeffrey Epstein controversy on multiple fronts, even as House Republicans joined Democrats to call for more transparency in the situation. Amid that, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Epstein's alleged accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in prison in Tallahassee.