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Republican members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, from left, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., question former FBI director James Comey as he recounts a series of conversations with President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 8, 2017. Comey alleges Trump repeatedly pressed him for his "loyalty" and directly pushed him to "lift the cloud" of investigation by declaring publicly the president was not the target of the probe into his campaign's Russia ties.
Sen. John McCain reportedly said Wednesday he was "disturbed" by former James Comey's statement to Congress that President Donald Trump pressured him to drop the probe into Michael Flynn's alleged Russia ties and Sen. Chuck Grassley said he might subpoena the former FBI director to testify before his committee. The comment by McCain, the six-term Arizona Republican, was reported by CNN's Manu Raju , who said "he would not go there" when the senator was asked whether Trump's actions constituted obstruction of justice.
Just days after launching a new political action committee, former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden will join Republican officials and donors at a weekend retreat hosted by former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Biden will be interviewed by Romney during a Friday evening event in Park City, Utah, at the invitation-only summit, according to a Biden spokesman and participants briefed on the schedule.
The new wrinkles? A Washington Post story that came out Friday citing USA officials briefed on intelligence reports who said that President Trump's confidant and son-in-law Jared Kushner tried to set up a secret "back channel" communication line with the Kremlin using Russian facilities. Trump started by lashing out against the coverage of the probe, tweeting, "It is my opinion that numerous leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the #FakeNews media".
The United States is encouraged by China's efforts to restrain North Korea but Washington will not accept Beijing's militarization of islands in the South China Sea, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday. The comments by Mattis, during the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, show how U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is looking to balance working with China to restrain North Korea's advancing missile and nuclear programs while dealing with Beijing's activities in the South China Sea.
Sen. John McCain, in a speech to Australia's United States Study Centre on Tuesday, stated that, "The United States remains the most important country on Earth." We must assume he was asserting his own view, rather than another of those "self-evident truths" that our Americans neighbours like to invoke.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that the violence against peaceful protesters by bodyguards for Turkey's president was "completely indefensible," as members of Congress pressed the Trump administration for a more forceful U.S. response. Ryan, R-Wis., said in a statement that Turkey is an important ally and NATO member, but its leaders must "fully condemn and apologize for this brutal behavior against innocent civilians exercising their First Amendment rights" last week outside the Turkish ambassador's residence.
The Army chief of staff said Thursday he's worried that a $6 billion combat communications system that has been under development for the past decade might not work, prompting frustration from senators. Gen. Mark Milley told the Senate he will likely finish a "rigorous, thorough and painful" review in six weeks of the system, called the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, to determine whether it can provide secure communications to soldiers in war zones as intended.
Federal Labor has poured cold water on a US view that Australia will play a greater military role to counter an increasingly belligerent China in the Indo-Pacific region. US senator John McCain, ahead of a visit to Sydney and Canberra next week, says Australia and the US will achieve "peace through strength" in the Trump administration's new strategy in Asia.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to watch as members of his security detail attacked protesters on US soil during a demonstration in front of the Turkish Embassy in Washington, DC, on Tuesday. New video published Thursday shows Erdogan's black Mercedes sedan surrounded by agents as it sat parked near the demonstrations.
Sen. John McCain invoked Watergate in describing the escalating controversy surrounding alleged ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia. "I think it's reaching the point where it's of Watergate size and scale, and a couple of other scandals you and I have seen," the Arizona Republican said Tuesday night.
The White House on Tuesday defended as "wholly appropriate" President Donald Trump's disclosure of classified information to senior Russian officials last week. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., echoing statements by Republicans and Democrats, said Tuesday that reports that President Donald Trump had shared classifie... The highly classified information about an Islamic State plot was collected by Israel, a source of intelligence and a close partner of the U.S. in the Middle East.
Pushing back against allegations of damaging intelligence disclosures, President Donald Trump's national security adviser insisted Tuesday that Trump's revelations to Russian officials about the terrorist threat from the Islamic State group were "wholly appropriate" and amounted to a routine sharing of information. H.R. McMaster added that none of the U.S. officials present for the president's Oval Office meeting with the Russian foreign minister last week "felt in any way that that conversation was inappropriate."
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers keynote address during the commencement at Liberty University May 13, 2017 in Lynchburg, Virginia. WASHINGTON President Trump on Tuesday defended his right to share "facts" about terrorism and airline safety with top Russian diplomats, amid reports that Israel supplied the once-secret information at the heart of the latest furor to engulf the White House.
The response to Trump's leaking of classified information to the Russians from Speaker Paul Ryan's office contains a telling contradiction. Ryan spokesman.
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After a report surfaced on Monday that President Trump shared classified information with Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting last week, some Senate Republicans initially rushed to defend the president, while other GOP lawmakers, as well as congressional Democrats, expressed alarm. "It's no longer classified the minute he utters it," Republican Senator Jim Risch said , according to Talking Points Memo 's Alice Ollstein.
John McCain Tillerson responds to McCain: 'I make a distinction between values and policy' Trump set for tense meeting with Turkey after ISIS decision Top House Dem: 'This is John McCain's finest hour' MORE Sunday, after the Arizona Republican pushed against Tillerson in an op-ed last week and warned it is "dangerous" to look at foreign policy as "simply transactional." McCain New York Times piece referenced earlier remarks from Tillerson, who said conditioning the United States' foreign policy too much on values forms barriers to advancing the country's national interests.
WATCH ABOVE: International Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne tells Vassy Kapelos when the U.S. gives their 90 day notice to renegotiate NAFTA, there will be a number of things Canada will put on the trade table as well. Champagne told The West Block's Vassy Kapelos that the federal government is "very well prepared" for whatever Trump and his newly appointed trade representative, Robert Lighthizer , put on the table in terms of trade talks.