By ERIC LICHTBLAU, MICHAEL D. SHEAR and CHARLIE SAVAGE MARCH 2, 2017 WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions, facing a chorus of criticism over his contacts with the Russian ambassador, recused himself Thursday from any current or future investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. His conversations with the ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, came amid suspected Russian hacking […]
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By Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller March 1 at 9:35 PM Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow during Sessions’s confirmation hearing to become attorney general. […]
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, ADAM GOLDMAN and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT MARCH 1, 2017 WASHINGTON — In the Obama administration’s last days, some White House officials scrambled to spread information about Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election — and about possible contacts between associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump and Russians — across the government. Former American officials say they had two aims: […]
Campaign aide J.D. Gordon says change was requested by Donald Trump himself. By Jim Acosta March 2nd, 2017 Former Trump adviser met with Russian at RNC Situation Room J.D. Gordon, a former Trump campaign adviser, tells CNN’s Jim Acosta that he and other Trump personnel met with Russia’s ambassador to the US during the Republican National Convention in July 2016 […]
By Dana Milbank Opinion writer February 28 President Trump addressed Congress on Tuesday night. Or was it the state Duma? And how can you tell the difference? Trump uttered some 5,000 words and spoke for 60 minutes, but not one of those words was “Russia,” and not one of those minutes was devoted to the so-far successful effort by […]
BY GLENN GARVIN February 27th, 2017 Since the allegations about Donald Trump’s business connections to Russia started to fly last year in the middle of his presidential campaign, the fog of political war has made it difficult to tell the real from the shadow. Except for one very visible landmark: a sprawling, rococo seaside mansion in […]
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 2/27/17 New Commerce Secretary at nexus of lucrative Trump Russian deal: With a line that runs through newly confirmed Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Rachel Maddow connects the dots between a billionaire Russian oligarch and a Donald Trump deal worth tens of millions of dollars. Duration: 21:44 CLICK IMAGES for direct link to videos: White […]
Matthew Rozsa Tuesday, Feb 28, 2017 Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., is shying away from publicity after admitting that he talked with the White House about reports that President Donald Trump’s campaign had contacts with Russian officials — and that he worked to discredit unfavorable coverage from CNN and The New York Times. […]
Stephanie Kirchgaessner February 27, 2017 New commerce secretary Wilbur Ross’s response about possible links between Bank of Cyprus, Russian agents and Trump officials wasn’t released to Senate. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story The White House has been accused of withholding information from Congress about whether Donald Trump or any of his campaign affiliates have […]
