On Saturday, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department described Russell as "suicidal," and authorities have since released audio of the conversations Russell had inside the cockpit with air traffic controllers, shedding a bit more light into what was going through his mind at the time.
Trump has denied doing so and threatened to release "tapes" of the conversation to prove so.
Updated at 10.17am GMT 10.00am GMT One of the overnight developments was the release of the transcript of the conversation between the pilots and the Malaysian air traffic controllers.
After a monthlong standoff that included the surprise release of phone conversations between people fixing the elections ("Did you see what we have?" one of them exclaims in a panic about the fake ballots that had been printed. "I mean... they're completely different"), another round of voting was held.
Helmut Kohl won a court ruling blocking the release of his conversations that were secretly recorded by East German spies, a victory in the former chancellor's attempts to defend his legacy as the leader who reunited Germany.
The release of email conversations between members of Bennett's group prompted former Sonics' owner Howard Schultz to file a lawsuit that sought to rescind the sale of the team and alleged that Bennett's group used fraud and misrepresentation to purchase the Sonics without making a "good faith best effort" to keep them in Seattle as mandated by the original sales contract.
The scandal has assumed greater import because of the release of secretly taped conversations between a telecommunications lobbyist and people in the power structure, including prominent journalists, industrialists and political figures.
For one thing, we don't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore, although he just popped up again in recent days with the release of the last batch of conversations he secretly taped in the White House.
"There are no allegations of wrongdoing by our administration," he said, and he called on the federal investigators to release the tapes of the conversation.
But one week after release of the EPA rule, most conversation centered on how the states will undertake their role in executing it.
