UPDATE | Trump to nominate ex-Justice Department official to lead FBI

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’ll nominate a former Justice Department official as FBI director.

Trump’s tweets that his choice — lawyer Christopher Wray — is “a man of impeccable credentials.”

There’s no more information in the two-sentence tweet that ends, “Details to follow.”

Wray emerged from a list of former prosecutors, politicians and law enforcement officials interviewed by Trump since the president fired FBI Director James Comey last month.

Wray works at the King & Spalding law firm. He represented New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during the investigation into the George Washington Bridge lane-closing case. Two former Christie aides were convicted of plotting to close bridge lanes to punish a Democratic mayor who wouldn’t endorse the Republican governor.

Wray worked for the Justice Department under President George W. Bush.

House Republicans immediately said Trump’s pick seemed like a good choice.

Rep. Mike Conaway of Texas said, “At first blush, he seems like a great choice to lead the FBI.” Conaway he wasn’t given a heads up and told reporters: “you all surprised me on the way in.”

Rep. Pete King of New York said, “I assume it’s a good choice.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan says the President didn’t consult him before announcing that he wants Wray to lead the FBI.

But Ryan says Wray seems like “the perfect kind of person” to succeed fired FBI Director James Comey.

The Wisconsin Republican says he favored a “career person” to take over the FBI. And Ryan says that Wray — a lawyer who served in the Justice Department under former President George W. Bush — “certainly seems to fit that bill.”