By CAROL E. LEE, CHRISTOPHER S. STEWART, ROB BARRY and SHANE HARRIS March 2, 2017 WASHINGTON—U.S. investigators have examined contacts Attorney General Jeff Sessions had with Russian officials during the time he was advising Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to people familiar with the matter. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to video. CLICK HERE for direct link to story. The outcome of the […]
Del Quentin Wilber and Sarah D. Wire March 2, 2017 The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee criticized the FBI on Thursday, complaining that it failed to share enough information about its investigation into alleged Russian interference in the presidential election.CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story “We cannot represent to the American people that we’re doing […]
Steve Reilly March 2nd 2017 5:00 pm. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not the only member of President Trump’s campaign who spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a diplomacy conference connected to the Republican National Convention in July. At least two more members of the Trump campaign’s national security officials also spoke with Kislyak at […]
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and MATT APUZZO MARCH 2, 2017 WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn, then Donald J. Trump’s incoming national security adviser, had a previously undisclosed meeting with the Russian ambassador in December to “establish a line of communication” between the new administration and the Russian government, the White House said on Thursday. CLICK IMAGE for direct link […]
The Rachel Maddow Show: 3/2/17 Intriguing overlap in paths of Russian oligarch, Trump campaign Rachel Maddow looks at a line of investigation into the intersections of the travel of a prominent Russian oligarch’s plane and the Donald Trump campaign. CLICK IMAGES for links to video David Cay Johnston, founder of DCReport.org, talks with Rachel Maddow about journalistic […]
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 […]
By IVAN NECHEPURENKO MARCH 2, 2017 MOSCOW — Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia has built a lavish empire of mansions, country estates, luxury yachts, an Italian vineyard and an 18th-century palace in St. Petersburg, the Kremlin’s most vocal critic and anticorruption crusader, Aleksei A. Navalny, said in a report published on Thursday. In the report, Mr. Navalny used official registry records […]
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. […]
