By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO MAY 24, 2017 WASHINGTON — American spies collected information last summer revealing that senior Russian intelligence and political officials were discussing how to exert influence over Donald J. Trump through his advisers, according to three current and former American officials familiar with the intelligence. CLICK LINK ABOVE for direct link to NYT story. The […]
by KEN DILANIAN and ANDREW RAFFERTY MAY 23 2017 Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on Tuesday refused to address — but did not deny — reports that President Donald Trump asked him to push back against allegations the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, while a former CIA chief testified he was aware of “interactions” between the campaign […]
By Adam Entous and Ellen Nakashima May 22 President Trump asked two of the nation’s top intelligence officials in March to help him push back against an FBI investigation into possible coordination between his campaign and the Russian government, according to current and former officials. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to WP video. CLICK HERE for direct link […]
By MATT APUZZO, MAGGIE HABERMAN and MATTHEW ROSENBERG MAY 19, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to NYT story. “I just fired the head of the F.B.I. […]
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT MAY 18, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump called the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, weeks after he took office and asked him when federal authorities were going to put out word that Mr. Trump was not personally under investigation, according to two people briefed on the call. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to NYT […]
By Gloria Borger, Pamela Brown, Jim Sciutto, Marshall Cohen & Eric Lichtblau May 19, 2017 Washington (CNN) Russian officials bragged in conversations during the presidential campaign that they had cultivated a strong relationship with former Trump adviser retired Gen. Michael Flynn and believed they could use him to influence Donald Trump and his team, sources told CNN. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct […]
By Ned Parker, Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel May 18th, 2017 Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters. CLICK […]
By REBECCA R. RUIZ and MARK LANDLER MAY 17, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Justice Department appointed Robert S. Mueller III, a former F.B.I. director, as special counsel on Wednesday to oversee the investigation into ties between President Trump’s campaign and Russian officials, dramatically raising the legal and political stakes in an affair that has threatened to engulf Mr. Trump’s four-month-old presidency. CLICK […]
By CHARLIE SAVAGE, LARRY BUCHANAN, TROY GRIGGS and KAREN YOURISH MAY 17, CLICK IMAGE for direct link to NYT link chart.
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT May 16, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly after the meeting. “I hope you can let this go,” […]
