by KEN DILANIAN and ADAM REISS MAY 30 2017, 8:51 PM ET President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, told NBC News on Tuesday that if he is issued a subpoena as part of Congressional probes into Russian interference in the U.S. election he will testify. Earlier, Cohen said that he has received requests for information from the Senate […]
By Pamela Brown, Jim Sciutto and Dana Bash, Tue May 30, 2017 (CNN) Russian government officials discussed having potentially “derogatory” information about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and some of his top aides in conversations intercepted by US intelligence during the 2016 election, according to two former intelligence officials and a congressional source. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE […]
By MAGGIE HABERMAN, GLENN THRUSH and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS MAY 27, 2017 President Trump returned home on Saturday to confront a growing political and legal threat, as his top aides tried to contain the fallout from reports that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is a focus of investigations into possible collusion between Russia and the president’s campaign and transition teams. CLICK […]
By Ellen Nakashima, Adam Entous and Greg Miller May 26 Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports. CLICK […]
By Robert Costa May 26 The Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race, has asked President Trump’s political organization to gather and produce all Russia-related documents, emails and phone records going back to his campaign’s launch in June 2015, according to two people briefed on the request. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to WP story. The […]
By Dana Bash, Shimon Prokupecz and Gloria Borger, Fri May 26, 2017 Washington (CNN) Then-FBI Director James Comey knew that a critical piece of information relating to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email was fake — created by Russian intelligence — but he feared that if it became public it would undermine the probe and the Justice Department itself, according […]
ANNA NEMTSOVA SPENCER ACKERMAN 05.26.17 KIEV—The Ukrainian parliamentarian Mustafa Nayyem says the FBI has come to him at last, asking about Paul Manafort, who had a long record as a political operative serving pro-Russian figures here before he became the campaign manager for Donald Trump last year. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to story. Nayyem and other Ukrainian […]
By Aaron Blake May 25 2017 at 7:50 PM Jared Kushner has just been revealed as the senior White House adviser who is under investigation in the Russia probe — which is news that comes as little surprise. Indeed, when The Washington Post reported last week that a then-unnamed top Trump adviser was a focus, many quickly assumed it was […]
by KEN DILANIAN, PETER ALEXANDER and COURTNEY KUBE MAY 25 2017 Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and one of his senior advisers, has come under FBI scrutiny in the Russia investigation, multiple U.S. officials told NBC News. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to NBC News story & video. Investigators believe Kushner has significant information relevant to their inquiry, officials […]
By BARRY MEIER and JESSE DRUCKER MAY 26, 2017 Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch once close to President Trump’s former campaign manager, has offered to cooperate with congressional committees investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but lawmakers are unwilling to accept his conditions, according to congressional officials. Mr. Deripaska’s offer comes amid increased attention to his ties […]