WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify publicly to a Senate panel on Tuesday, the committee’s chairman said, setting up another potentially dramatic congressional hearing on possible ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race. Sessions is likely to face questions by the Senate Intelligence Committee […]
WASHINGTON — Fired FBI Director James Comey told U.S. lawmakers Thursday that President Donald Trump expected him to pledge his loyalty and urged him to drop the investigation into links between his aides and Russian officials. Trump ousted Comey last month, saying he was thinking of “this Russia thing” when he decided to dismiss the chief […]
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday disparaged the appointment of a special counsel to investigate his campaign’s links to Russian interests in last year’s presidential election, calling it “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!” In a pair of early morning comments on his Twitter account, Trump complained that a special […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s White House was left reeling Wednesday following the stunning allegation that he sought to derail a criminal investigation into links his former national security adviser had with Russian officials on top of reports that Trump disclosed highly classified intelligence to two Moscow diplomats last week. “Nobody knows where this really […]