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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday defended President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer questioned the president's decision and called for a special prosecutor to lead the Russia investigation. And Republican Sen. Marco Rubio essentially shrugged.
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The man who took over from ousted FBI Director James Comey declined to say on Thursday whether he ever heard Comey tell Donald Trump that the president was not a target of an investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, acting FBI director Andrew McCabe also pledged that he would inform the panel of any effort by the White House or others to interfere with the agency's probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Consider, if you will, Merrick Garland - a one-time distinguished Supreme Court nominee now fated to endlessly be the set-up in a joke whose punchline never arrives. Garland, of course, is best known for being the central figure in one of the Republican-controlled Senate's grandest indignities, the history of which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been desperate to revise .
A spokeswoman for President Donald Trump is suggesting that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein , who wrote a memo justifying FBI Director James Comey 's firing, be selected to take over the Russia investigation. Appearing on NBC's "Today" show, Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls Rosenstein a person "who sets the gold standard within the legal system."
The Senate intelligence committee subpoenaed former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn for documents related to the panel's investigation into Russia's election meddling. Sen. Richard Burr, the Republican chairman, and Sen. Mark Warner, the committee's Democratic vice chairman, issued a joint statement saying the panel decided to issue the subpoena after Flynn, through his lawyer, declined to cooperate with an April 28 request to turn over the documents.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Ambassador Kislyak, are in Fairbanks, Alaska for an Arctic summit. The U.S., Russia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway are taking part.
The secretary of state is in Fairbanks for a meeting with the world's eight Arctic nations amid concerns about the future of the sensitive region after President Donald Trump called for more oil drilling and development. Rex Tillerson landed on Wednesday afternoon and immediately held a meeting with a congressional delegation as well as Arctic representatives from Alaska's indigenous people.
The Senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn for documents related to the panel's investigation into Russia's election meddling. The Senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn for documents related to the panel's investigation into Russia's election meddling.
In late January, Emily Peterson was on her usual trail run around the stunning Marin Headlands, near San Francisco, when she was gripped by fear. Here she was, enjoying public lands at a time when the fate of public lands was very much up in the air.
President Donald Trump defended his firing of FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday, asserting in a flurry of tweets that both Democrats and Republicans "will be thanking me." Trump did not mention any effect the dismissal might have on FBI and congressional investigations into contacts between his 2016 election campaign and Russia.
U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy was all set to become a judge on the U.S. fourth circuit court of appeals - and that may still happen . But this week's bombshell decision by U.S. president Donald Trump to fire James Comey - director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - has propelled Gowdy to the top of the list of possible future leaders of our nation's top law enforcement agency.
WASHINGTON -- Assemblyman John McKeon, a 16-year veteran of the New Jersey legislature, was home over Easter weekend when his cell phone rang. The call was from Denny Heck, a Democratic U.S. representative from Washington state who is in charge of recruiting House Democratic candidates for 2018.
The Republican party is mostly closing ranks around its president, shielding Donald Trump against attacks over the historic firing of an FBI director who was investigating his campaign's ties to Russia. Wednesday's circling of conservative wagons following the firing of FBI director James Comey extended from cable-news chatter to the party brass.
Key Republicans Wednesday emphatically resisted growing calls for an outside, independent investigator or a special panel in the wake of President Donald Trump's abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey. Republicans control the Senate with 52 of its 100 seats.
The termination letter from President Donald Trump to FBI Director James Comey is photographed in Washington, Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Trump abruptly fired Comey, ousting the nation's top law enforcement official in the midst of an investigation into whether Trump's campaign had ties to Russia's election meddling.
President Donald Trump's stunning firing of FBI Director James Comey throws into question the future of a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign's possible connections to Russia and immediately raised suspicions of an underhanded effort to stymie a probe that has shadowed the administration from the outset. Democrats likened Tuesday's ouster to President Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" and renewed calls for the appointment of a special prosecutor, and some Republicans also questioned the move.
Bears Ears National Monument in Utah boasts stretches of red-and-yellow sandstone so brilliant they appear to be ablaze and rock structures so precarious they appear to defy gravity. The rugged terrain south of the Colorado River also has reserves of oil and natural gas that are currently off limits to new leasing -- restrictions that may end as the Trump administration reviews 27 large-scale monuments his predecessors set aside for protection.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is eager to pursue legislation that would break up Wall Street megabanks and has pushed the issue with members of the Trump administration. "We're certainly reaching out to the administration," Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television airing Wednesday.