If the report is detailed and damning enough, it could force Republicans to do what they have refused to do for the past two years: hold Trump accountable.
By Sarah N. Lynch and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A visibly angry judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump’s former political adviser Roger Stone to stop speaking publicly about U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal case against him or else he will be sent to jail pending trial. In a tense court hearing on…
The Senate has joined the House in threatening to subpoena all of the Mueller report if Trump and his attorney general try to hide it.
Andrew McCabe responded to Trump lying about him and his removal from the FBI by calling out the lies of the President Of The United States.
resident Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States wanted one, and that his country currently has the edge when it comes to a first nuclear strike.
Rachel Maddow dropped a chilling warning that Donald Trump’s new attorney general could be behind the special counsel’s sudden conclusion.
Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe believes the case that Donald Trump is a Russian asset has only grown stronger over the past two years.
Dean said that he expects indictments and jail time for members of Donald Trump’s family – no matter what happens with the special counsel investigation.
Robert Mueller is completing his investigation, and Attorney General William Barr could make an announcement on Mueller’s report as soon as next week. The Mueller Investigation Is Almost Done CNN reported: Attorney General Bill Barr is preparing to announce as early as next week the completion of Robert Mueller‘s Russia investigation, with plans for Barr…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Roger Stone, a former political adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, was ordered on Tuesday to appear in court this week over Instagram posts that chastised and appeared to threaten the judge presiding over his criminal trial. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Stone would need to…
According to Andrew McCabe, Republicans in Congress who are covering for Trump’s potential crimes did so while knowing that the president is being investigated by the FBI.
There is a long list of former high-level members of the intelligence community that believe the president could be a threat to national security.
The White House doesn’t know what Mueller has, but they are worrying that he is going to bust Trump for obstruction of justice.
A sure sign that bad news is coming for Trump is that the president is tweeting about the ‘illegality’ of the Robert Mueller investigation.
On Sunday, Trump tweeted a Rush Limbaugh quote that suggested all of the investigators who are investigating the president should be jailed.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is investigating more than Trump/Russia collusion. Schiff is looking for wrongdoing by Donald Trump.
(Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller disclosed for the first time on Friday that his office has evidence of communications between Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, and WikiLeaks related to the release of hacked Democratic Party emails. In a court filing on Friday, Mueller’s office said it had gathered that…
Sen. Richard Blumenthal said that the walls are closing in on Trump and the odds are that Sarah Sanders knows something.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has been interviewed by the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, CNN reported on Friday.
The Senate voted to confirm William Barr to be attorney general, even though Barr has not committed to releasing the Mueller report.
According to the Democratic congressman, the reason Manafort lied to investigators is that he was still holding out for a pardon from Donald Trump.
Collusion not only happened, but it involved some of the highest-ranking officials on Trump’s team up to and including the president himself.
“We’ve made progress, but it has been scattered and not felt enough,” he tweeted in response to Swisher’s questions. “Changing the experience hasn’t been meaningful enough. And we’ve put most of the burden on the victims of abuse (that’s a huge fail).”
U.S. Republican and Democratic senators on Wednesday will introduce a bill seeking to punish Russia for meddling in U.S. elections and for its aggression in Ukraine by imposing sanctions on its banking, energy sector and foreign debt.
Trump’s former lawyer John Dowd said that Trump is going to try to prevent Mueller writing a report, and if there is a report there will be no public release.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen will testify before three congressional committees before he enters jail on March 6, CNBC reported on Friday, citing Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis. Cohen is expected to appear before the House and Senate intelligence committees and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, CNBC said….
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) confirmed that the Senate Finance Committee is investigating the Russian money connection to the NRA.
The campaign portion of Trump’s relationship with Russia appears to be just the beginning of what was a long-term intelligence operation.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) isn’t doing a full investigation into Trump’s finances and not waiting for the Mueller report.
Matthew Whitaker took a victory lap at Trump Hotel following his congressional testimony on Friday, but his celebration could be short-lived.Â
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on Friday said he never discussed Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s Russia investigation with President Donald Trump or his inner circle before he began working at the U.S. Department of Justice. Asked if he has spoken with the president, any Trump associates or Trump‘s family members as…
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) had a blunt warning for acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker. Jeffries said, “Keep your hands off the Mueller investigation.”
The hearing room erupted in gasps when Whitaker pushed back strongly against a question from Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat, about whether he had ever been asked to approve any action requested by Mueller.
Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker finally showed up to testify before the House Judiciary Committee and the hearing has been a disaster for Trump.
Schiff said the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russia was treason as he continues to signal that Donald Trump Jr. is in his investigative sights
Trump is freaking out and growing increasingly paranoid as Rep. Adam Schiff is hiring former White House staff to assist with his investigation of the president.
The NRA is now under congressional investigation for illegally funneling money through shell companies to support Trump and Republican Senators.
While there has been extensive bipartisan cooperation on the Senate panel, including between Burr and ranking Democrat Mark Warner, Democrats seriously disagree with Burr on evidence of collusion, according to congressional sources familiar with internal committee discussions.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said that he hopes he won’t need to issue the subpoena, which was authorized in a vote of 23-13, but that he fears Whitaker could dodge questions about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe or his communications with the White House when he testifies before the panel on Friday.
A conservative U.S. political activist romantically linked to admitted Russian agent Maria Butina has been indicted by a federal grand jury on wire fraud and money laundering charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Dakota said on Wednesday.
Not only is Donald Trump under a real congressional investigation that should terrify him, but he looks weaker than ever.Â
The House Intelligence Committee has voted to turn over the transcripts of witness testimony to Robert Mueller for a perjury investigation, which means that the clock is ticking on Donald Trump Jr. being indicted.
Trump responded to House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff’s launch of an investigation into him by attacking Schiff and calling him a political hack.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) laid out the committee’s areas of investigation, and one of the things they will be looking at is whether Trump and his family laundered money.
The statement by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stands in contrast to the 2016 presidential election, which U.S. officials say was the target of a sophisticated Russian hacking and propaganda campaign.
It should worry Trump that one of his allies and supporters believes that he could be in even more legal trouble from prosecutors in New York.
Trump’s plan to hide the Mueller report was blown up by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) who is threatening to subpoena the special counsel report.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The United States should resolve its differences with Russia through dialogue instead of threatening to withdraw from an important nuclear arms control agreement between the two nations, China’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. The United States’ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday that Washington would withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office said on Wednesday that hackers in Russia last October stole evidence it had turned over confidentially to Russian firm Concord Management and Consulting LLC, which is being prosecuted over allegations of funding a propaganda campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.
Rachel Maddow points that House Republicans are still in the Trump protection racket by stalling to name their members of the House Intelligence Committee.
It is being reported that Trump had a secret meeting with Putin at the G20 that took place no US translator or notetaker present. It was Trump and Putin discussing foreign policy alone.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four leading U.S. House lawmakers said on Tuesday they were considering legislation to ensure aluminum giant Rusal and its parent En+, two companies tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, comply with an agreement that allowed them to be removed from a U.S. sanctions list. “We are considering additional legislative actions to ensure…
With Democrats putting continued pressure on the GOP to be transparent, Donald Trump will find it almost impossible to bury Robert Mueller’s final report.
House Intelligence Committee chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) compared Trump’s tactics to organized crime while announcing that Michael Cohen will testify on February 8.
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have introduced a bill that would make Robert Mueller’s report available to both Congress and the public.
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump‘s administration on Sunday lifted sanctions on aluminum giant Rusal and other Russian firms linked to oligarch Oleg Deripaska, defying a Democratic-led push in the U.S. Congress to maintain the restrictions. Earlier this month, 11 of Trump‘s fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate joined Democrats in…
House Intelligence Committee chair, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is going to turn Donald Trump Jr’s testimony transcript over to Mueller for investigation of perjury.
The freshly indicted Roger Stone would not rule out cooperating with Robert Mueller and flipping on Donald Trump to save his skin in the Russia scandal.
Officials in Donald Trump’s White House appeared to have set up a secret network to share top-secret intelligence with Russia.
By Zachary Fagenson FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – A longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump was arrested on Friday for lying to Congress about the 2016 campaign’s efforts to use stolen emails to undercut his Democratic rival in the latest arrest of the Special Counsel probe into possible election manipulation. Roger Stone, a 66-year-old…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday ordered lawyers for Special Counsel Robert Mueller and President Donald Trump‘s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to appear Feb. 4 for a closed hearing on whether Manafort breached his plea deal by lying to investigators. Judge Amy Berman Jackson in the U.S. District…
The charges against him add to pressure on Trump as the newly installed Democratic majority in the House of Representatives plans to step up investigations of the president while a month-long partial shutdown of the U.S. government over Trump’s demand for funding for a border wall drags on.
Jerome Corsi, a right-wing political commentator, confirmed on Friday that he is “Person 1” cited in the indictment of Roger Stone and said that he no longer believed he would be charged as part of the U.S. special counsel’s Russia probe.
Trump could only respond to the Stone indictment with a gibberish filled tweet, which is proof that Mueller has broken Donald Trump. Trump tweeted: Greatest Witch Hunt in the History of our Country! NO COLLUSION! Border Coyotes, Drug Dealers and Human Traffickers are treated better. Who alerted CNN to be there? — Donald J. Trump…
MSNBC’s Ari Melber explains that Mueller is laying out the evidence that someone connected to Trump was trying to get illegally obtained materials to benefit Trump.
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s long-time ally and campaign adviser Roger Stone was arrested on Friday on seven charges of obstruction, lying and witness tampering as part of the U.S. Special Counsel’s Office Russia investigation. Stone is one of dozens of people caught up in a long-running investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016…
It’s against the law to even ask for or receive a “contribution or donation of money or other thing of value†in connection with a U.S. election. One does not have to even receive it to have broken federal law.
(Reuters) – Roger Stone, a longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, allegedly called an associate “a rat,” threatened his dog and invoked “The Godfather” Mafia movies in a bid to stop him from testifying in an investigation run by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office, according to court papers unsealed on Friday. Stone was…
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders sounded desperate as she tried to distance Donald Trump from the freshly indicted Roger Stone.
It’s no surprise that Trump – a man controlled by Russia – doesn’t care about staffing the government with officials compromised by foreign entities.Â
Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen postponed his testimony before Congress, so House Democrats are going to subpoena Cohen to testify.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen is postponing his scheduled Feb. 7 testimony to Congress due to threats against his family from Trump, his adviser said on Wednesday. Attorney Lanny Davis, who has been advising Cohen on his media strategy, said in a statement that Cohen had decided to postpone his…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the relationship between the Trump campaign and the NRA during the 2016 election.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed an unknown foreign government-owned company that is contesting a subpoena issued by a grand jury in a sealed case possibly linked to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election to file its appeal under seal.
By Robin Emmott and Tom Balmforth BRUSSELS/MOSCOW (Reuters) – The European Union sanctioned on Monday the heads of Russia’s military intelligence and two of their officers blamed for poisoning a former Russian double agent in Britain last year, a decision Moscow dismissed as groundless. The EU travel bans and asset freezes included two men Britain…
Rudy Giuliani’s admission that Trump was trying to make a deal with Russia for a Trump Tower Moscow is another step closer to Trump being charged with treason.
Democrats shouldn’t give an inch to a president of the United States who is under investigation for being a Russian asset.
Not only does Nance believe the BuzzFeed report will turn out to be true, but he believes Trump will be busted for ordering dozens of people to lie for him.
BuzzFeed or not, Trump has already crossed multiple legal red lines that break the threshold needed to consider impeachment proceedings.Â
Nicolle Wallace explained that Trump collusion is really about Trump and his family being bought, paid for, and owned by the Russians.
Democrats are talking about impeachment with a new urgency, as they have changed their timeline and might not wait for Mueller’s report before they move to impeach Trump.
Two leading Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives promised to investigate U.S. President Donald Trump’s dealings with his personal lawyer Michael Cohen after a media report said Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress in violation of U.S. law.
In his desperate attempt to get out from under the legal avalanche about to pummel him, Trump may have stepped into yet another crime.
Russia and Putin have complete control not only over the president they helped install in 2016, but the Republican Party more broadly.
Vladimir Putin doesn’t just have a president in his back pocket. He has an entire U.S. political party working on his behalf.Â
Michael Steele says being soft on Russia is no longer just isolated to Donald Trump. It has become standard Republican Party policy.
Rachel Maddow laid out how Trump is pursuing all of Putin’s dream goals, like destroying NATO, while giving the Russians more leverage over the presidency.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) will be investigating the dark Trump secrets that answer why the president is carrying out pro-Russia policies.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said that Mueller’s latest court filing shows that the Trump campaign was engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the American people.
(Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday asked a federal judge for more time before sentencing former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates because of his ongoing cooperation, suggesting the probe into Russian interference may still have a ways to go. The latest request for more time before sentencing came in a joint filing…
Former House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes was desperate to get rid of Mueller because the Special Counsel is investigating him.
When hearings start on Tuesday, Democrats in the Senate shouldn’t just roll over and accept William Barr’s prepared testimony.
Nance’s worst case scenario became a lot more likely with new reporting that the FBI launched an investigation into whether Trump is a Russian agent.
Trump has continued to give the FBI reasons to investigate whether he is working on behalf of Vladimir Putin and the Russian government.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two congressional committees are considering whether to subpoena President Donald Trump’s interpreter to testify about what was discussed in his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Representative Eliot Engel said on Monday. Engel, Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the panel was working with intelligence committee staff on…
By Daren Butler and Lesley Wroughton ISTANBUL/RIYADH (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Turkey with economic devastation if it attacks a U.S.-allied Kurdish militia in Syria, drawing a sharp rebuke from Ankara on Monday and reviving fears of another downturn in ties between the NATO allies. Relations between the United States and Turkey have…
Trump said on Monday he never worked for Russia, his first direct denial after a media report saying the FBI in 2017 opened a counterintelligence investigation of whether he acted on Moscow’s behalf.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) refused to stand up for his country by rejecting the idea of subpoenaing the notes from Trump’s meeting with Putin.
Senator Lindsey Graham said on “Fox News Sunday” he plans to ask the FBI about a New York Times report that it investigated Donald Trump regarding his possibly working on behalf of Russia and against U.S. interests, suggesting that he thinks the FBI went too far.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that he would force a Senate vote to block Trump’s attempt to ease sanctions on 3 Russian companies.