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Carter Page brought up the idea of having President Trump travel to Russia during the presidential campaign, according to a closed-door testimony he gave last week. In a May 2016 email to advisers J.D. Gordon and Walid Phares, Page wrote, "If [Trump] would like to take my place [on a trip to Russia] and raise the temperature a little bit, of course I'd be more than happy to yield this honor to him."
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross holds a news conference at the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C., U.S. March 10, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Thayer U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Monday he probably would not keep his holdings in a shipping company with business ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and that he had fully and properly disclosed investments.
A trove of leaked documents made public Sunday purports to show financial ties between Russia and a member of President Trump's cabinet. The leak, called the Paradise Papers, was revealed when the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and its dozens of collaborating news outlets on Sunday published investigations related to them.
Despite denials by the White House and dismissive right-wing media coverage, special counsel Robert Mueller's opening salvo - the indictments and a guilty plea - has stunned Washington for its aggressiveness, legal positioning and comprehensive strategy that suggests the Trump campaign and White House's problems will only deepen.
J.D. Gordon, a campaign advisor to Donald Trump, participated in the March 2016 meeting where George Papadopoulos offered to broker a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Gordon says Trump didn't agree to such a meeting.
There has been a very large document dump today of documents from an offshore law firm who handles offshore corporate transactions for the oligarchs of this age. This document dump shows that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was in business with close associates of Vladimir Putin and may not have divested himself of the shell companies he was invested in.
Jared Kushner's team turned over documents to special counsel in Russia investigation - Jared Kushner has turned over documents in recent weeks to special counsel Robert Mueller as investigators have begun asking in witness interviews about Kushner's role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, CNN has learned.
Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken responded to the latest developments in the special counsel investigation by saying that Attorney General Jeff Sessions "seems to have problems telling the truth." Franken's comments on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" came after unsealed court documents showed former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos had told the campaign about a potential meeting opportunity between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and news emerged that Sessions vetoed the idea.
We're talking about Donald Trump, Jr. and Paul Manafort's June 2016 meeting with the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, right? The one where the promise of damaging information on Clinton was used to get the meeting but was never actually furnished? Wrong.
Washington: Senate Democrats have demanded an explanation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions over why he did not disclose a March 2016 gathering with then-candidate Donald Trump and members of his campaign team at which an adviser offered to set up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Sessions' participation in the gathering was detailed in court documents released Monday by special counsel Robert Mueller III.
In this handout photo taken in 2016 and released on Tuesday by the Valdai Club foundation, Joseph Mifsud, a politics professor, attends the Valdai Discussion Club Conference following the results of the closed-door Iran-Russia discussion in Moscow. Mifsud is suspected of being a key link between the Russian government and the Donald Trump campaign, but Mifsud, identified solely as 'the London professor' in court documents, has kept a low profile in London academic circles.
In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. The secretary of state under President Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. senator from Massachusetts was the target of at least five phishing emails during June-December 2015 at his Gmail address, according to data from the cybersecurity firm Secureworks.
HOLD FOR RELEASE Thursday 2, 1 a.m. EDT; Graphic shows when fake password-reset links were created, as part of a hacking attack closely aligned with the Russian government; 2c x 5 inches; 96 mm x 126 mm; FILE - In this Monday, May 29, 2017 photo released by the Sputnik news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an interview in Paris, France. On Thursday, June 1, 2017, Putin told reporters, Russian hackers might "wake up, read about something going on in interstate relations and, if they have patriotic leanings, they may try to add their contribution to the fight against those who speak badly about Russia."
Democrats on Wednesday questioned again whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forthcoming with Congress amid news reports he killed a suggestion by former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos to set up a meeting with Republican candidate Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Jeff Sessions concealed his meetings with Russians, and he had an obligation to be more forthcoming about the meeting that involved Papadopoulos as well," Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Judiciary Committee, told Manu Raju on CNN.
Biden addressed the consequences of U.S. disengagement from world leadership at the event. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP Chicago: Former US Vice President Joe Biden strongly criticized President Trump Wednesday, and predicted an emboldened and determined Russia would once again meddle in an American election.
Has there ever been a covert action that backfired as disastrously as Russia's attempt to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign? Granted, we know all the reasons Moscow is gloating: Donald Trump is president; America is divided and confused; Russia's propagandization of "fake news" is now repeated by people around the world as evidence that nothing is believable and all information is manipulated and mendacious. But against this cynical strategy there now stands a process embodied by special counsel Robert Mueller, which we will call, as a shorthand: "The Truth."
One occupational hazard of political blogging is that you will shut your lights off at night with a good idea in your head about what you're going to write about in the morning only to discover at dawn that someone has done an adequate job of it while you were sleeping. In this case, I was victimized by Marcy Wheeler and her piece: Jeff Sessions Unforgets the Discussions with Russians He Twice Swore He Didn't Know About .
Papadopoulos Claimed Trump Campaign Approved Russia Meeting - Former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos made a significant claim in an email: Top Trump campaign officials agreed to a pre-election meeting with representatives of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Bloomberg News reports.
President Donald Trump dismissed George Papadopoulos on Tuesday as a "liar" and a mere campaign volunteer, but newly unsealed court papers outline the former adviser's frequent contacts with senior officials and with foreign nationals who promised access to the highest levels of the Russian government. Records made public Monday in Papadopoulos' case list a gaggle of people who were in touch with him during the campaign but only with such identifiers as "Campaign Supervisor," ''Senior Policy Advisor" and "High-Ranking Campaign Official."