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Former FBI Director James Comey , whom Trump fired last month, could testify as early as next week and planned to confirm the president's pressure to drop the agency's investigation into Flynn , according to CNN . In addition to the two meetings that Sessions has acknowledged, the senators pointed to the possibility of a separate encounter at an April 2016 Trump campaign event that Sessions and Kislyak attended.
The CIA and director of national intelligence will return their copies of the Senate intelligence committee's massive 6,700-page report on the CIA's interrogation and detention program under the George W. Bush administration, a Senate aide confirmed to CNN Friday. The decision means it's highly unlikely the report - which concluded that interrogation techniques such as waterboarding did not elicit useful intelligence from detainees - will be made public so long as Republicans control the Senate and the White House.
Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, joins Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2013, following a Republican strategy session. Sen. Richard Burr said Thursday he doesn't think the Senate will produce a "comprehensive" plan to repeal and replace Obamacare by the end of this year.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Donald Trump arrives for his election night rally at the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan on Nov. 9, 2016. The chairman and ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee informed reporters on Tuesday afternoon that the committee would issue subpoenas to businesses associated with former national security adviser Michael Flynn, subpoenas that, unlike those issued to Flynn personally , couldn't be batted away by invoking the Fifth Amendment.
The top two leaders of the Senate intelligence committee are leaving the door open to holding Michael Flynn in contempt of Congress after President Trump's former national security adviser said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights rather than comply with a subpoena. Sen. Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said the panel was reviewing a range of options to compel Flynn to disclose records about his meetings with Russian officials, including holding Flynn in contempt.
Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr "is not ruling out holding Michael Flynn in contempt of Congress as President Trump's former national security adviser continues to stonewall Congress," Politico reports. Burr said his committee has "plenty" of options to respond: "You'll just have to wait and watch.
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn will invoke his constitutional right against self-incrimination on Monday when he declines to hand over documents to a Senate panel investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, The Associated Press has learned. Flynn is expected to cite Fifth Amendment protections in a letter Monday to the Senate intelligence committee, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., left, speaks with Idaho Sen. James Risch before a Senate Intelligence Committee last week. Idaho Sen. Jim Risch's defense of President Donald Trump's reported May 10 disclosure of classified intelligence to Russian officials is the trigger for another protest Friday at the senator's Boise office.
Correcting his earlier statement, the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee said Thursday that ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn hasn't responded to a subpoena from the panel in its probe of Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina had said hours earlier Flynn's lawyer had informed the panel he would not comply with the subpoena.
Ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn will not honor a subpoena issued by a Senate committee looking into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, the panel's chairman said Thursday. Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina told reporters that Flynn's lawyer has informed the panel he will not abide by a subpoena for private documents.
Trump began the day by tweeting that he is the victim of "the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history," a claim ignoring impeachment efforts and blistering verbal attacks on previous presidents and other political leaders. He has made similar complaints before, but this one came the day after the Justice Department appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller to lead the federal Trump-Russia investigation.
The Senate Intelligence Committee is still negotiating with President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, to obtain documents for its investigation into Russia and the U.S. presidential election, congressional aides said on Thursday. Earlier on Thursday, the committee's Republican chairman, Senator Richard Burr, told reporters that Flynn's lawyers said he would not honor a subpoena for the documents.
James Comey certainly didn't do his reputation any good when, during the presidential campaign, the FBI director spotlighted Hillary Clinton's emails and went back and forth on the gravity of the issue. But no one, not even the most savvy Washington insiders and elected officials, could have imagined that President Trump would have fired the director over his handling and mishandling of the email issue.
Ousted FBI Director James Comey will not testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday about the circumstances of his firing, as top members of the panel had invited him to do. "He won't be testifying on Tuesday but it is our hope in the not too distant future that we can find time for him to come," Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the committee's top Democrat, said in an interview Friday on MSNBC.
North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr says he expects James Comey will soon speak privately with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee after the former FBI Director declined an invitation to testify before the panel next week. Burr is the Republican chairman of the committee investigating Russia's meddling in last year's U.S. presidential election and whether there was any collusion with members of President Donald Trump's campaign.
Former FBI Director James Comey has declined an invitation to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week. That's according to an aide to the committee's chairman, GOP Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina.
The Senate intelligence committee subpoenaed former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn for documents related to the panel's investigation into Russia's election meddling. Sen. Richard Burr, the Republican chairman, and Sen. Mark Warner, the committee's Democratic vice chairman, issued a joint statement saying the panel decided to issue the subpoena after Flynn, through his lawyer, declined to cooperate with an April 28 request to turn over the documents.
Key Republicans Wednesday emphatically resisted growing calls for an outside, independent investigator or a special panel in the wake of President Donald Trump's abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey. Republicans control the Senate with 52 of its 100 seats.
The termination letter from President Donald Trump to FBI Director James Comey is photographed in Washington, Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Trump abruptly fired Comey, ousting the nation's top law enforcement official in the midst of an investigation into whether Trump's campaign had ties to Russia's election meddling.
President Donald Trump's stunning firing of FBI Director James Comey throws into question the future of a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign's possible connections to Russia and immediately raised suspicions of an underhanded effort to stymie a probe that has shadowed the administration from the outset. Democrats likened Tuesday's ouster to President Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" and renewed calls for the appointment of a special prosecutor, and some Republicans also questioned the move.