By Pamela Brown, Jim Sciutto and Evan Perez, CNN Wed Feb. 15, 2017 10:37 PM ET (CNN) High-level advisers close to then-presidential nominee Donald Trump were in constant communication during the campaign with Russians known to US intelligence, multiple current and former intelligence, law enforcement and administration officials tell CNN. CLICK IMAGE for link to story & video. President-elect Trump and then-President […]
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MARK MAZZETTI and MATT APUZZO FEB. 14, 2017 WASHINGTON — Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials. American law enforcement and intelligence agencies […]
BY KEVIN G. HALL, PETER STONE, GREG GORDON AND DAVID GOLDSTEIN February 15th, 2017 WASHINGTON A Russian diplomat who worked in the Washington embassy left the country last August while federal investigators examined whether he played a key covert role in the alleged Kremlin-directed plot to influence last fall’s U.S. elections. CLICK IMAGE for link […]
By Abby Phillip, Ellen Nakashima and Jenna Johnson February 14 at 4:59 PM Vice President Pence first learned that former national security adviser Michael Flynn had misled him about the nature of his contact with a Russian official on Feb. 9, a full two weeks after other White House officials were briefed on the matter, an […]
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR FEB. 14, 2017 WASHINGTON — The resignation on Monday night of Michael T. Flynn as national security adviser caps a remarkably tumultuous first month for President Trump’s White House that has burdened the early days of his presidency with scandal, legal challenges, personnel drama and questions about his temperament during interactions with world […]
Glenn Greenwald February 14 2017, PRESIDENT TRUMP’S NATIONAL security adviser, Gen. Michael Flynn, was forced to resign on Monday night as a result of getting caught lying about whether he discussed sanctions in a December telephone call with a Russian diplomat. The only reason the public learned about Flynn’s lie is because someone inside the U.S. government violated […]
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, MATT APUZZO, GLENN THRUSH and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT FEB. 13, 2017 WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser, resigned on Monday night after it was revealed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States. Mr. Flynn, who served in […]
By Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Philip Rucker February 13 at 8:17 PM The acting attorney general informed the Trump White House late last month that she believed Michael Flynn had misled senior administration officials about the nature of his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States, and warned that the national security adviser was potentially vulnerable to […]
By Peter Lance: February 13th, 2017. At today’s press conference following the White House visit of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, President Donald J. Trump took softball questions from reporters from the conversative website dailycaller.com and right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group’s local Washington, DC TV station WJLA. But the two leading national security stories that dominated […]
by KAILANI KOENIG NEWS FEB 12 2017, 12:47 PM ET WASHINGTON — White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday would not answer a question about whether President Trump still has confidence in his National Security Advisor, retired Gen. Michael Flynn. CLICK HERE for link to story. CLICK IMAGES for links to videos. “That’s the question that I […]
