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President Donald Trump told former FBI Director James Comey that he had serious concerns about the judgment of his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and his chief of staff asked days later if Flynn's communications were being monitored under a secret surveillance warrant, according to memos maintained by Comey and obtained by The Associated Press. The 15 pages of documents contain new details about a series of interactions with Trump that Comey found so unnerving that he documented them in writing.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte is preparing to issue a subpoena to force the Justice Department to turn over former FBI Director James B. Comey 's memos that he wrote - and then had leaked - detailing his interactions with President Trump. Congress has been seeking the memos but Mr. Rosenstein missed the deadline for production earlier this week.
Nearly a year after Comey's dismissal and the appointment of Mueller, who was Comey's predecessor at the FBI, the Russia investigation has advanced on multiple fronts. As James Comey takes stage, where does Robert Mueller's investigation stand? Nearly a year after Comey's dismissal and the appointment of Mueller, who was Comey's predecessor at the FBI, the Russia investigation has advanced on multiple fronts.
James Comey was fired as the FBI's director in May prompting the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. As Mueller's investigation into whether Donald Trump's campaign or associates colluded with Moscow moved into a more serious phase, the White House's press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has made several statements about Comey from the podium.
Washington is full of blather, bombast and bullsh-t, but a line about Robert Mueller was the most important thing spoken or written there last week: The line was included in a Washington Post story that said Mueller told the White House that President Trump was not a target of the criminal investigation . The story could be a big deal - if true.
President Donald Trump has reportedly begun informal preparations for a potential interview with investigators working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The preparations have been brief and informal and included going over potential topics with the President that Mueller would likely raise in an interview, according to a CNN report citing a White House official and a person familiar with the situation.
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller continues to investigate whether President Donald Trump attempted to block his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but he has told Trump lawyers the president is not currently a "target" of the probe, media are reporting. The Washington Post and Associated Press, citing "people familiar with the discussion," reported on April 4 that Mueller has informed Trump's legal team that he does not view the president currently as a "target," meaning he is not currently a candidate for indictment on criminal charges.
President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, John Dowd, told The Daily Beast on Saturday morning that he hopes Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will shut down Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's election interference. Reached for comment by email about the firing of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Dowd sent The Daily Beast the text of Trump's most recent tweet on the subject, which applauded the dismissal.
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe appears before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2017. The former deputy director of the FBI , Andrew McCabe, has been fired - just two days before he was set to retire from government after nearly 22 years in federal law enforcement, and McCabe is pushing back, claiming he's been caught up in a politically-motived effort to hurt the Russia investigation.
Today, we learn that the Robert Mueller forces are apparently sending his troops up to, if not, beyond the Trump red line. Despite threats of shutting down the special counsel operation, Mueller is on the march as he is reported to have issued subpoenas to the Trump Organization.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election has been clouded by revelations that two former members of his team sent negative text messages about President Trump. In the messages, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who were romantically involved, bash Trump and discuss concerns about being too tough on Hillary Clinton during an investigation into the use of her private email server.
Like so many political rivals he dispatched during a scorched-earth campaign for the White House, President Trump publicly shamed his attorney general as weak or beleaguered. Sessions quickly responded Wednesday to Trump's latest Twitter lashing, in which he called the attorney general "disgraceful" for choosing the Justice Department's inspector general instead of prosecutors to review alleged surveillance abuses of a former Trump campaign aide.
Donald Trump's legal team is mulling over how the president could testify before special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation by considering limiting the scope of the questions and protecting him from walking into a perjury trap, a report on Sunday said. They are looking at having the president submit written responses to Mueller's questions or provide limited oral testimony, the report said.
FBI Director Robert Mueller listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013, as the House Judiciary Committee held an oversight hearing on the FBI. Mueller is nearing the end of his 12 years as head ... more > Special counsel Robert Mueller won indictments Friday charging 13 Russian nationals and several companies with interfering in the 2016 U.S. election in order to aid President Trump .
Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, arrives for questioning by the House Intelligence Committee as part of its ongoing investigation into meddling in the U.S. elections by Russia, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 15, 2018. Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, arrives for questioning by the House Intelligence Committee as part of its ongoing investigation into meddling in the U.S. elections by Russia, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 15, 2018.
President Trump's legal team is citing a three-pillar argument to convince investigators, and the public, that President Trump shouldn't sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller. Mr. Mueller wants access to the president as part of an inquiry into suspected obstruction of justice in the firing of the special counsel's longtime friend, FBI Director James B. Comey, in May. The president's legal team has resisted but not given a firm no.
The White House said Friday that President Donald Trump is "weighing his options" as he decides whether to release a classified memo drafted by Democrats that counters GOP allegations that the FBI abused U.S. government surveillance powers in its Russia probe. The president's careful consideration of the Democratic memo is in contrast to his enthusiastic embrace of releasing the Republican document, which he pledged before reading to make public.
A Justice Department official who helped oversee the controversial probes of Hillary Clinton 's use of a private email server and Russian interference in the 2016 election stepped down this week. David Laufman, an experienced federal prosecutor who in 2014 became chief of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, said farewell to colleagues Wednesday.
Page texted Mr. Strzok, her lover, about preparing a report for then-FBI Director James B. Comey because "[POTUS] wants to know everything we're doing," Fox News said. The message was one of more 50,000 texts the pair sent over a two-year span between July 2015 and July 2017.
Trump on Saturday falsely claimed that the memo "totally vindicates" him in special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing probe into whether his campaign colluded with Russia. House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, the California Republican whose committee drafted the memo, promised Friday on Fox News that more memos critical of US government agencies are coming.