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Many NAFCU members have engaged with their lawmakers recently on the need to repeal the Dodd-Frank Act's Durbin amendment, via the association's Grassroots Action Center , but NAFCU Director of Political Affairs Dan O'Brien is urging continued outreach on this and other key issues. Next week, when lawmakers are working in their home states and districts, will be an "ideal time to engage in grassroots advocacy," O'Brien said in a message to credit unions yesterday.
WASHINGTON Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former U.S. officials. U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time that they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee, three of the officials said.
Michael Flynn is out as President Donald Trump's national security adviser. But does he have bigger problems than just needing a new job? Some vocal critics have suggested Flynn could be prosecuted for violating the statute.
During Tuesday's edition of The View , ABC's weekday talk show, each of the five female co-hosts was delirious with joy as the panelists discussed Michael Flynn's resignation as the Trump administration's national security adviser. After Whoopi Goldberg stated that Flynn was "not feeling the love this morning," fellow comedienne Joy Behar demanded that the 2016 presidential be "done again" because she believes that "the Russians handed the presidency to Donald Trump."
The Republican-led Senate is moving to block an Obama-era regulation that would prevent an estimated 75,000 people with mental disorders from being able to purchase a firearm. The Obama administration had sought to strengthen the federal background check system with a rule requiring the Social Security Administration to send in the names of beneficiaries with mental impairments who also need a third-party to manage their benefits.
On Tuesday's MTP Daily , moderator Chuck Todd attempted to spin the resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn as a category five hurricane and the biggest presidential scandal involving a foreign government since the Iran-Contra Affair under the Reagan administration. "[W]elcome today one of what is arguably the biggest presidential scandal involving a foreign government since Iran-Contra.
The New York Times reported that law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted calls and phone records showing Donald Trump's presidential campaign aides, as well as other associates, having repeated contact with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election. The report names four people close to Trump - including Michael Flynn, who recently stepped down as national security adviser - in the FBI's inquiry into links between Trump associates and the Russian government.
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Tuesday suggested he's not sold on the need for investigations into the mounting controversies roiling President Donald Trump's administration. Paul said in a radio interview on the "Kilmeade and Friends" radio program Tuesday that he didn't think it was prudent to launch "investigation after investigation" on fellow members of the Republican Party.
President Donald Trump 's pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid advised Vice President Mike Pence on health care issues while he was Indiana's governor, a post she maintained amid a web of business arrangements - including one that ethics experts say conflicted with her public duties. A review by The Associated Press found Seema Verma and her small Indianapolis-based firm made millions through consulting agreements with at least nine states while also working under contract for Hewlett Packard.
High-level advisers close to then-presidential nominee Donald Trump were in constant communication during the campaign with Russians known to US intelligence, multiple current and former intelligence, law enforcement and administration officials tell CNN. President-elect Trump and then-President Barack Obama were both briefed on details of the extensive communications between suspected Russian operatives and people associated with the Trump campaign and the Trump business, according to US officials familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump's pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid advised Vice President Mike Pence on health care issues while he was Indiana's governor, a post she maintained amid a web of business arrangements - including one that ethics experts say conflicted with her public duties. A review by The Associated Press found Seema Verma and her small Indianapolis-based firm made millions through consulting agreements with at least nine states while also working under contract for Hewlett Packard.
New Hampshire officials and operatives are pushing back on Trump adviser Stephen Miller's claims of voter fraud in the Granite State Parroting his boss, President Donald Trump, Miller said Sunday that it was 'very real' that voters from Massachusetts were bused into New Hampshire New Hampshire officials and operatives, including some Republicans, are pushing back on White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller's claims that voters were bused from Massachusetts to the Granite State to tamper with the 2016 election. 'There's zero evidence to support it,' said former state GOP chair Fergus Cullen in an interview with Politico .
EXCLUSIVE: Brendan Dassey's confession - omitted from Making a Murderer - describes how his uncle Steven Avery touched his genitals and was p*ssed off that his fiancA e was in jail and he hadn't 'gotten any,' reveals prosecutor Ken Kratz in bombshell book Extraordinary confrontation between Omarosa and African-American White House reporter as former 'Apprentice' star now in Trump's inner circle claims to have 'dossiers' on black journalists Formerly friends, the two began feuding after Manigault hinted that Ryan may have been paid by Hillary Clinton's campaign; no evidence supports that Ryan said Manigault 'physically intimidated' her and warned that she was among a group of black journalists on whom the White House keeps 'dossiers' Press secretary Sean Spicer batted away that idea on Tuesday, saying it's 'absolutely not true' - but joking that the opposition research was in a ... (more)
The House on Tuesday approved a bill that supporters say would block the federal government from improperly seizing control of hundreds of thousands of acres along the Red River in Texas and Oklahoma. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, sponsored the bill in response to complaints from property owners that the federal Bureau of Land Management was seeking control of disputed land along a 116-mile stretch of river.
In this image made from a video taken on Dec. 10, 2015 and made available on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, US President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Moscow. Flynn, who resigned following reports that he misled White House officials about his contacts with Russia, was seen attending the 10th anniversary of the Russian television network RT in 2015 where Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a speech.
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Missouri, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and part of the Republican leadership, told reporters that he thought it was likely that Flynn would, at some point, talk to the committee about "both post-election activities and any other activities that he would be aware of." Flynn resigned from his post Monday amid a swirl of questions about his calls to the Russian ambassador ahead of the inauguration.
Mike Flynn's resigned from Donald Trump's administration. Michael Tracey thinks the reason for it is nonsense: Bill Van Auken offers : In response to the latest revelations about Flynn's meetings with the Russian ambassador and denials of what the CIA has now leaked to the media, leading Democrats mounted a campaign demanding that Flynn be stripped of his security clearance, suspended as national security advisor or fired.
Jeffrey Aronin, CEO of Northbrook-based Marathon Pharmaceuticals, is photographed in 2015. After the price of his company's Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug came under fire, Aronin said Feb. 13, 2017, that Marathon would pause the commercial launch of the drug.
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