By Patricia Zengerle and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump‘s Republican allies tangled with one of Trump‘s most prominent Democratic critics during a chaotic congressional hearing on Thursday and the U.S. attorney general revealed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s Russia inquiry report is more than 300 pages long. Hours after Trump went on…
Maddow cited previous investigations which released their reports either to Congress or the public almost immediately after they concluded.
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace said that the Mueller report contains evidence against that anyone who reads it will view as damning.
Adam Schiff has turned the Trump attack on him into a platform to make the case that Trump colluded with the Russians.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) unloaded on Republicans after they called for him to resign as chairman of the committee. After Trump accused him of a crime , and Republicans tried to pressure him to step down from the committee, Schiff said: My colleagues may think it’s ok that the Russians offered…
Attorney General William Barr met with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and would not agree to turn over the full Mueller report which is at least less than 1,000 pages long.
The Republican claims that Robert Mueller is done aren’t true, as his grand jury is still hard at work on ongoing cases. Politico reported: The special counsel grand jury that investigated Russian collusion into the 2016 presidential election is “continuing robustly” despite the end of Robert Mueller’s probe, a federal prosecutor said in court Wednesday….
By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly half of all Americans still believe President Donald Trump worked with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted after Special Counsel Robert Mueller cleared Trump of that allegation. Americans did feel slightly more positive about Trump after learning the…
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a resolution directing the Justice Department to give Congress all records on FBI obstruction of justice or counterintelligence probes against President Donald Trump.
The strategy paid off, insulating Trump from the legal jeopardy presented by a sit-down interview with the special counsel’s team – an interview that Trump had said publicly he wanted to do. There was even a tentative date for the interview – Jan. 27, 2018 – though one of Trump’s lawyers told Reuters he never intended to make the president available to Mueller. And Mueller never issued a subpoena demanding testimony.
William Barr’s four-page summary was a political document that was seemingly designed to protect Trump. It should be treated as such.
Not only do the American people need to read the full report immediately, but Robert Mueller should testify before Congress to clear the air.
William Barr’s hastily-crafted summary has raised far more questions than it has answered. The American people deserve the actual report immediately.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder exposed the holes in Trump’s fake total exoneration claim and explained why Mueller must testify before Congress.
Robert Mueller intended his report to be a case to Congress on Trump obstruction of justice, but he was blocked by Barr
By Susan Cornwell and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said on Monday he will ask Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to look into the origins of the investigation of whether President Donald Trump‘s campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election. A…
White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway told reporters Monday morning that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) should resign over his collusion comments because she says he “lied.”
People need to stay resolute about reality, demand that news networks stop playing Trump’s lies without correcting them first
House Democrats held an emergency call on Sunday night where they began discussing plans to call Mueller to testify if they don’t get his report.
House Democrats wasted no time in announcing that Attorney General William Barr will be called to testify before the Judiciary Committee.
Democrats are raising doubts and questions about William Barr’s summary of Robert Mueller‘s report. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said in a statement to PoliticusUSA, “Attorney General Barr needs to make the entire Special Counsel’s report public immediately. Congress should be able to review the evidence independent of the interpretation of Trump-appointed allies like the Attorney…
The Mueller report does not conclude that Trump committed a crime, nor does it conclude that Trump did not do anything wrong.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is calling for Attorney General William Barr to burn the Mueller report so that it can’t be read.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) made it clear that if Trump committed crimes and can’t be indicted right now, impeachment is still on the table.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. civil liberties privacy group has filed a lawsuit seeking the public release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The Electronic Privacy Information Center brought the Freedom of Information Act suit against the Department of Justice, the group said in…
The Republican efforts to get Hillary Clinton when they controlled Congress has backfired and will hurt Trump’s effort to bury the Mueller report.
Congressman John Lewis believes Donald Trump is an illegitimate president, regardless of what Robert Mueller’s final report concludes.
What we do now is that Trump betrayed the country during the 2016 election. If and when that information comes out in the report, it is up to Congress and the American people to take action.
There are still multiple investigations that could endanger the president and his family worse than Mueller ever could have.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) explained all of the leverage that Congress has over Trump and Barr, and he warned that if they try to bury the Mueller report, they will lose.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that any counterintelligence info that Mueller has uncovered has to be given to the House Intel committee.
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The closure of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election does not mark the end of legal worries for President Donald Trump and people close to him. Other ongoing investigations and litigation are focusing on issues including his businesses and financial dealings, personal…
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said that there is a strong possibility that Trump’s family could be indicted by other entities based on the work of Mueller.
Sen. Kamala Harris, as a former prosecutor, knows very well how this report could be buried and why it must not.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released a joint statement warning President Trump’s handpicked Attorney General that he must make Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report public.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that Trump is outnumbered and the American people will get to read every word of the Mueller report.
By Sarah N. Lynch and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted the report on his investigation of Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election, Attorney General William Barr must decide how much of the document – if any – to make public. Justice Department regulations governing special counsels…
Robert Mueller has submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr, but so far Barr will only brief congressional leaders on the key findings of the report.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Special Counsel Robert Mueller has handed in a keenly awaited report on his investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election and any potential wrongdoing by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Justice Department said on Friday. Mueller submitted the report to Attorney General William Barr, the top U.S. law enforcement official,…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has been told to expect notification by 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report has been delivered to Attorney General William Barr, according to media reports. Mueller had been investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election and if the Trump campaign colluded…
The lawmakers expressed concern about media reports that Trump seized notes on at least one meeting with the Russian leader and tried to destroy records about those talks.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) made it clear that the Mueller report must go to Congress before Trump gets to see it.
Maddow’s reporting is just the latest reminder that, while the public has learned a lot about Trump’s ties to Russia, Mueller likely knows much more.
According to former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman, Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are under criminal investigation in New York.
Trump’s public statements make it clear that he knows something bad is coming for him, and perhaps his family, and there’s virtually nothing he can do to stop it.
Trump Tower Moscow shows Trump was chasing a lucrative business deal in Russia at the same time that President Vladimir Putin’s government, according to U.S. intelligence agencies, was conducting a hacking and propaganda campaign to boost his candidacy
He is of interest to Mueller because of his ties to the Kremlin and his decade-long relationship with Paul Manafort, the one-time campaign chairman for U.S. President Donald Trump, who this month was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison in two criminal cases brought by Mueller’s team.
A group of Republicans hammered Trump after he suggested that the Mueller report should not be released to the public. Trump tweeted: So, if there was knowingly & acknowledged to be “zero” crime when the Special Counsel was appointed, and if the appointment was made based on the Fake Dossier (paid for by Crooked Hillary)…
Forget the idea that the Mueller investigation is ending soon, as the special counsel declined to proceed with sentencing on Rick Gates because he is still cooperating with multiple investigations.
The U.S. Special Counsel’s Office on Friday asked a court to delay sentencing for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former deputy campaign chairman, Rick Gates, amid “ongoing investigations” stemming from the Russia investigation.
New reporting underscores the larger point that Christopher Steele’s dossier has only grown more credible over time, not less.
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a non-binding resolution on Thursday calling for Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s upcoming report on his probe into Russia‘s role in the 2016 election to be released to Congress and the public. The 420-0 House vote, with four conservative Republican lawmakers voting “present,”…
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) expressed confidence that no matter what Trump does to bury the Mueller report, the truth will come out.
Rachel Maddow showed how prosecutors in New York blew up Trump’s plan to use pardons to kill the Mueller investigation. Maddow said: That is why New York prosecutors today, not federal prosecutors, but state prosecutors in New York threw a huge wrench in the works for the White House today when they unsealed a brand-new…
an attorney for Cohen said his testimony about not seeking a pardon referred to the period after Cohen decided to break from Trump in June 2018 and left their joint defense agreement.
By Andy Sullivan and Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump‘s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced on Wednesday to about 3-1/2 more years in prison for charges arising from Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s probe into Russia‘s role in the 2016 U.S. election, with the judge giving him a stern lecture about his…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced President Donald Trump‘s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to 73 months in prison for two conspiracy charges arising from Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said 30 of the months would run…
The U.S. presidential election in 2020 is “enormously vulnerable” to hacking and foreign influence, Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, said on Tuesday.
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the team he assembled to investigate U.S. President Donald Trump and his associates have been funded through the end of September 2019, three U.S. officials said on Monday, an indication that the probe has funding to keep it going for months if need be….
Adam Schiff suggested that Special Counsel Robert Mueller should subpoena Trump to testify under oath before a grand jury.
Kirschner said his experience as a prosecutor combined with all the public reporting has convinced him that justice is coming for the president.
The Democratic lawmaker said she believes there is already enough on the table to move forward with impeachment hearings.
Trump doesn’t want to build a wall between the United States and Mexico; he wants to put up a barrier between himself and the rule of law.
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump‘s Justice Department is unlikely to grant Democrats in Congress access to underlying evidence from Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, a top congressional Republican said on Friday. If Representative Doug Collins is right, Democratic-led congressional committees that have launched…
During an interview with Al Jazeera English, Erik Prince got busted for lying to the House Intelligence Committee about a meeting he attended with the Trumps at Trump Tower in August 2016.
After Trump spent his “executive time” trying to trash Michael Cohen, Rep. Eric Swalwell confronted the president and asked for his testimony under oath to Mueller or Congress.
Maddow asked: If the allegations of a Trump campaign conspiracy with Russia aren’t being used against Manafort, who are they being used against?
Paul Manafort’s lawyer’s spewed the same talking points as Donald Trump following Thursday’s sentencing, suggesting that a pardon is still on the table.
Glenn Kirschner tore into Judge T.S. Ellis III for ignoring Robert Mueller’s sentencing guidelines and giving Paul Manafort a 47-month sentence.
Judge T.S. Ellis III – appointed by Ronald Reagan – didn’t seem to care much about Manafort’s crimes or his lack of remorse.
House Democrats will force a vote next week on the releasing the Mueller report, as the battle begins to make Mueller’s findings public.
From breaking into computers to paying for a megaphone, Russian efforts to undermine the U.S. political system have been spelled out in detail by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who has described an elaborate campaign of hacking and propaganda during the 2016 presidential race.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) made it clear that Trump’s threats and attempts to intimidate Michael Cohen backfired.
The House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday it had hired a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan with experience investigating Russian mobsters and white-collar crime to lead its probe into the Trump administration.
Richard Painter spoke the blunt truth when he slammed Trump’s dangerous secret communications with Putin and said Trump is acting like a Russian mole.
Reps. Adam Schiff, Elijah Cummings, and Elliot Engel have used their power as committee chairs to demand all documents on Trump’s communications with Putin.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) revealed that he is investigating Trump Russian money laundering, which explains why the president is freaking out.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) sent the White House into a panic by telling reports that Michael Cohen answered all of their questions in the closed-door session.
Rachel Maddow said Michael Cohen’s testimony leaves two potential outcomes for Donald Trump: impeachment or criminal charges.
President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen testified to Congress on Wednesday that some reimbursement checks issued to him for hush-money payments to an adult film star were signed by Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer.
The following is a timeline of significant developments in the investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller into U.S. intelligence agencies’ conclusions that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help get Donald Trump elected:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen told lawmakers on Wednesday he was aware of other possible illegal acts involving Trump that he could not discuss because they were under investigation. Cohen, Trump’s onetime “fixer,” was asked at a congressional hearing if he was aware of other wrongdoing or illegal acts…
It is not just Donald Trump. When Michael Cohen was asked if the entire Trump family could be compromised by Russia, he said yes. Here is the chilling exchange between Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Cohen: Wasserman Schultz: If his daughter and son are involved in the Russian trump tower deal, is it possible the…
By Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Michael Cohen, the former “fixer” and personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump, will testify on Wednesday that Trump knew ahead of time about a leak of emails that would hurt his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Cohen will also tell Congress that Trump directed…
History has demonstrated that what Michael Cohen is about to do this week could trigger the end of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Schiff says Democrats won’t let the Trump Justice Department have a double standard when it comes to releasing evidence to the public.
By Polina Nikolskaya VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) – A Russian tanker violated international trade sanctions by transferring fuel to a North Korean vessel at sea at least four times between October 2017 and May 2018, two crew members who witnessed the transfers said. Such transactions could have helped provide North Korea with an economic lifeline and…
One of the last gasp legal plays for Trump and his allies to close down the Mueller investigation has lost in court.
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge brought by an associate of Roger Stone, the indicted long-time advisor to President Donald Trump, to the legality of the Justice Department‘s 2017 appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. In doing so, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District…
By Nathan Layne and Ginger Gibson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump‘s former personal attorney Michael Cohen plans to tell U.S. lawmakers this week that Trump asked him several times about a proposed skyscraper project in Moscow long after he secured the Republican presidential nomination, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. Cohen’s…
House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff that he would subpoena Robert Mueller if Trump tries to bury the Russia report. Adam Schiff Will Subpoena Robert Mueller Transcript via ABC’s This Week: STEPHANOPOULOS: You — you say — you say the Justice Department’s going to have to live by that precedent, but what if they…
The NRA is trying to incite violence against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and former Rep. Gabby Giffords who almost lost her life in a mass shooting.
The Manafort sentencing document from Robert Mueller paints a picture of a career criminal that Trump picked to chair his campaign.
If Trump is voted out in 2020 – or removed from office sooner – criminal charges could very likely be waiting for him when his presidency ends.
For two years, Republicans have calculated that it was a smart move to bury their heads in the sand and ignore the five-alarm fire in the White House.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced that his committee would be holding a hearing on the rise of authoritarianism.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior U.S. Justice Department official on Friday shot down expectations that Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s office will deliver next week a highly anticipated report on its investigation into possible Russian interference in U.S. elections. “Any reports that the Special Counsel’s report will be delivered to the DOJ during the week of…
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein warned Trump not to try to get away with releasing a summary of the Mueller report.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is pursuing criminal charges against Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, whether or not Trump pardons him for his federal convictions, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Trump Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told the American people to move on from Mueller and don’t concern yourself with his report.