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Michael Flynn has pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversation with the Russian Ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak. The conversation occurred AFTER Trump won the 2016 election and before he was inaugurated.
Embattled Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore led his Democratic opponent by six percentage points in a CBS News poll released on Sunday, with most Alabama Republicans saying the allegations of sexual misconduct against him are false. Moore was leading Democrat Doug Jones 49 to 43 percent among voters likely to cast ballots in the Dec. 12 special election, CBS said.
General Mike Flynn was "the ghost of witness flipped" as "SNL" dropped a riff on the Dickens holidays mainstay centering on Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump couldn't enjoy his big legislative win Friday with the passing of the Republican tax bill thanks to the news that Gen. Michael Flynn is cooperating with Special Council Robert Mueller.
Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is up in the polls roughly one week ahead of when voters are scheduled to cast their ballots. RealClearPolitics polling average has Moore up 2.5 percentage points over Democrat Doug Jones.
Emails Dispute White House Claims That Flynn Acted Independently on Russia - WASHINGTON - When President Trump fired his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in February, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions Trump Tweets He Knew Flynn Lied to FBI When He Asked Comey to 'Let Flynn Go' A day after Trump's former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with special prosecutor Robert Mueller, who is investigating the Trump team's alleged ties to the Kremlin, Trump tweeted about Flynn: Oops: Trump's latest tweet about Michael Flynn could strengthen Mueller's case against president, experts say - On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that he'd fired Flynn because he lied to the FBI.
Emails Dispute White House Claims That Flynn Acted Independently on Russia - WASHINGTON - When President Trump fired his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in February, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions Was Michael Flynn asked to wear a wire in Mueller hunt for evidence on Russia? - Plea agreement includes clause showing Flynn consented to participate in 'covert law enforcement activities" if required - The least-noticed sentence in Michael Flynn's plea agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller Trump Tweets He Knew Flynn Lied to FBI When He Asked Comey to 'Let Flynn Go' A day after Trump's former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with special prosecutor Robert Mueller, who is investigating the Trump team's alleged ties to the Kremlin, Trump tweeted about Flynn: ... (more)
Emails Dispute White House Claims That Flynn Acted Independently on Russia - WASHINGTON - When President Trump fired his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in February, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions Was Michael Flynn asked to wear a wire in Mueller hunt for evidence on Russia? - Plea agreement includes clause showing Flynn consented to participate in 'covert law enforcement activities" if required - The least-noticed sentence in Michael Flynn's plea agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller Trump Tweets He Knew Flynn Lied to FBI When He Asked Comey to 'Let Flynn Go' A day after Trump's former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with special prosecutor Robert Mueller, who is investigating the Trump team's alleged ties to the Kremlin, Trump tweeted about Flynn: ABC ... (more)
Republican Senator Dean Heller had his security officials remove a stage 4 cancer victim from a town hall after she tried to question him about the future of the Affordable Care Act. In video posted to Twitter by Battle Born Progress , Laura Packard can be seen addressing the GOP senator about the implications of the Senate's tax plan on healthcare only to have two men accost her and remove her from the room.
Education secretary's brother is alumnus of Hillsdale College, to which family gives money and which Republicans wanted to help because it refuses federal funds The Senate voted to strike an amendment from the Republican tax bill that would have benefited a small Christian college in southern Michigan with ties to education secretary Betsy DeVos. In a surprise 52-48 vote, four Republicans supported an amendment offered by Democrat Jeff Merkley to remove the exception from the legislation.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan listens while Senate Majority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell speaks to the press after meetings with President Donald Trump at the White House on February 27, 2017. Expiring tax cuts, business perks and health care politics loom over House and Senate Republicans as they face the daunting task of hammering out the differences between their competing bills to rewrite the U.S. tax code.
Then-White House national security adviser Michael Flynn arrives prior to a joint news conference between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington in February.
The former top FBI official assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election was taken off that job this summer after his bosses discovered that he and another member of Mueller's team had exchanged politically charged texts disparaging President Donald Trump and supporting Hillary Clinton, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Peter Strzok, as deputy head of counterintelligence at the FBI, was a key player in the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server to do government work while she was secretary of state, as well as the probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election.
An attempted revival of Democrats in Arkansas is being mounted in legislative districts that the party lost or ignored in 2016, with candidates announcing that they intend to run against GOP incumbents in places like Rogers, Conway and west Little Rock. But the state's Republicans, who have near-supermajorities in the Legislature, are looking to pad their recent wins in next year's elections.
"First, Senate Leadership stepped up and saw to it that legislation passed which promotes further economic growth such as our nation has enjoyed since the 2016 Election. Almost as important is the fact that the Chamber passed the Bill under Regular Order," said Nardolillo.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Saturday that he sent a letter to a top Iranian military official warning him that the United States would hold Tehran accountable for any attacks it conducted on American interests in Iraq. Pompeo, who has voiced staunch opposition to Iran, said he sent the letter to Gen.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Saturday called for Nevada Rep. Ruben Kihuen to resign after a former aide accused the first-term lawmaker of repeatedly making sexual advances toward her during the 2016 congressional campaign. In a statement, Pelosi said she found the woman's documented account, reported by BuzzFeed News, to be convincing.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., confer Friday on Capitol Hill before the late-night tax vote. Schumer noted that the effect of some last-minute revisions had yet to be analyzed by the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Michael Flynn's "life was destroyed" by the probe over Russian meddling in the US election campaign, Donald Trump has said. In Tweets posted on Saturday, the US President accused the Department of Justice of displaying double standards and said the system was "rigged".