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The lengths to which the FBI relied on the Hillary Clinton opposition research dossier to investigate her political rival came into sharper focus with the testimony of the lead investigator, FBI agent Peter Strzok. Mr. Strzok told a joint House committee last week that the FBI received from Associate Attorney General Bruce Ohr a raft of documents - including sections of the anti- Trump dossier - during the investigation into Russia election interference.
When Rep. Jim Jordan , Rep. Mark Meadows , Rep. Justin Amash , and six other colleagues co-founded the House Freedom Caucus in January 2015, there was ample reason for libertarians to cheer. Unlike the soft-spined conservatism of the larger Republican Study Committee, the Freedom Caucus promised to be much more hardcore about spending, war, constitutionalism, and oversight of the executive branch.
JULY 11: Speaker of the House Paul Ryan speaks with reporters during a news conference following a House Republican conference meeting July 11, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. House Republicans are promoting the results of their recent tax bill.
Former Ohio State wrestling coach Russ Hellickson, a defender of Rep. Jim Jordan, says he told the team doctor that he was making some athletes 'uncomfortable' Ex-OSU coach defends Jordan in abuse scandal but says team doctor made athletes 'uncomfortable' Former Ohio State wrestling coach Russ Hellickson, a defender of Rep. Jim Jordan, says he told the team doctor that he was making some athletes 'uncomfortable' Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2L0raWX Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, arrives for a Republican conference meeting June 7, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Jordan denies allegations that he ignored sexual abuse when he was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University decades ago.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus has voted to support its co-founder, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, as he faces accusations of turning a blind eye to alleged sexual abuse more than two decades ago. Emerging from the weekly meeting late Tuesday night, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican, said the group voted unanimously to support Jordan.
This Oct. 22, 2015 file photo shows U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Capitol Hill. Two men who were wrestlers at Ohio State University in the 1990s say Jordan isn't being truthful when he says he wasn't aware of allegations team doctor Richard Strauss was groping male wrestlers, NBC reported Tuesday, July 3, 2018.
This Oct. 22, 2015 file photo shows U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Capitol Hill. Two men who were wrestlers at Ohio State University in the 1990s say Jordan isn't being truthful when he says he wasn't aware of allegations team doctor Richard Strauss was groping male wrestlers, NBC reported Tuesday, July 3, 2018.
Harvey Weinstein is due in a New York court for arraignment on charges alleging he committed a sex crime against a third woman. . FILE - In this June 5, 2018 file photo, Harvey Weinstein appears in court in New York.
McConnell Tries to Nudge Trump Toward Two Supreme Court Options - Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, told President Trump this past week that Judges Raymond M. Kethledge and Thomas M. Hardiman presented the fewest obvious obstacles to being confirmed to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy 'It's a Terrible Vote': Red-State Democrats Face an Agonizing Supreme Court Choice - WASHINGTON - Democratic senators running for re-election in Trump Country face an agonizing choice over President Trump's coming Supreme Court nominee: Vote to confirm the pick and risk demoralizing Democratic voters ahead Rep. Jim Jordan faces new accusation that he must have known about alleged sexual abuse at Ohio State - A seventh former Ohio State University wrestler said Saturday that he believes Rep. Jim Jordan knew about inappropriate behavior that allegedly took place in the school's athletic ... (more)
McConnell Tries to Nudge Trump Toward Two Supreme Court Options - Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, told President Trump this past week that Judges Raymond M. Kethledge and Thomas M. Hardiman presented the fewest obvious obstacles to being confirmed to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy 'It's a Terrible Vote': Red-State Democrats Face an Agonizing Supreme Court Choice - WASHINGTON - Democratic senators running for re-election in Trump Country face an agonizing choice over President Trump's coming Supreme Court nominee: Vote to confirm the pick and risk demoralizing Democratic voters ahead Rep. Jim Jordan faces new accusation that he must have known about alleged sexual abuse at Ohio State - A seventh former Ohio State University wrestler said Saturday that he believes Rep. Jim Jordan knew about inappropriate behavior that allegedly took place in the school's athletic ... (more)
Wrestler Eli Stickley was killed Thursday night, the university's athletic department confirmed in a written statement. Stickley was a native of Urbana, Ohio, and wrestled in the 141-pound weight class at Wisconsin.
The prominent congressional Republican from Ohio sat down with Bret Baier and vehemently denied the allegations made by several former college wrestlers that he turned a blind eye to sexual abuse when he worked as their assistant coach at Ohio State University. Pergram pointed out that of all the accusers, Jordan repeatedly took aim at Michael Disabato , who he claimed during the interview has a "vendetta" against Ohio State because he "lost a licensing agreement" with the university and attempted to discredit him by invoking his arrest earlier this year.
Bret Baier on Friday, Rep. Jim Jordan called out CNN for having former Ohio State wrestler and accuser Michael DiSabato on three times without doing their "homework" first. Just moments before, Jordan had said that the whole thing amounted to "conversations in a locker room" being expressly different from reports of abuse.
On paper, Richard Strauss was a well-regarded Ohio State University physician who examined young athletes for decades as a team doctor and sports-medicine researcher. In interviews with The Associated Press in recent weeks, seven former athletes and a former nursing student shared detailed allegations of sexual misconduct dating back to the 1970s against the doctor, who killed himself in 2005 at age 67 and is only now under investigation.
At a Fourth of July event in Fremont, Ohio, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) spoke out against a report that he turned a blind eye to alleged sexual abuse at Ohio State University when he was an assistant wrestling coach, saying the "things they said were just not true."
Rep. Jim Jordan, the powerful Republican congressman from Ohio, is being accused by former wrestlers he coached more than two decades ago at Ohio State University of failing to stop the team doctor from molesting them and other students.
Embattled FBI agent Peter Strzok told lawmakers Wednesday in a marathon, closed-door interview that the anti-Trump text messages he exchanged with an FBI lawyer were part of an "intimate" conversation and he did not intend to act on any of the missives, according to Democrats in the meeting. But Republicans argued that Strzok's claims about the messages after the fact were simply not credible, and one lawmaker claimed to have learned new information from his interview Tuesday with the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees.
House Republicans expressed their frustration Thursday at Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the Russia investigation aimed at President Trump during an often tense hearing that was punctuated by the House passing a resolution prodding the Justice Department to turn over sensitive documents related to their investigation of the Trump campaign. Republicans grilled Mr. Rosenstein over what they perceive as a refusal to hand over the confidential documents; the role anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok played in starting the Russia probe; the length of the special counsel Robert Mueller 's Russia probe and if the deputy attorney general approved a surveillance warrant on Trump campaign aide Carter Page .
A group of eight House Republicans has asked Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to give them the names of FBI employees mentioned in last week's report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation, some of whom were portrayed as anti-Trump. The letter said the lawmakers were "grateful" for Horowitz's work in compiling the report, but added that they were requesting the names "in the interest of justice and transparency."
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the leader of the House Freedom Caucus, said he would pursue legislation to protect journalists in the wake of the Justice Department seizing a New York Times reporter's private email and phone records. "When you think about the context of the last several years, you've seen the IRS target conservatives for their political beliefs.