Trump is desperately spewing nonsense because he knows he has no credibility – and because, with each passing day, the obstruction of justice case against him builds a little bit more.
The House Intelligence Committee is demanding that the White House turn over all recordings, memos, and communications with former FBI Director James Comey, as Donald Trump has officially had his tapes bluff called by the Russia investigation.
Moments after it was reported that President Trump’s personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz is going to file a complaint against former FBI Director James Comey, Norm Eisen of CREW announced, “This is an abuse of process and we will be filing a defense of Comey.”
The Trump administration is in for a rude awakening if they think the American public will believe the president over James Comey.
Murphy didn’t explicitly call for the impeachment of the president, but his comments suggest that Democrats are becoming more comfortable heading down that road.
Trump’s lawyer accused Comey of committing a felony, but the lawyer got the facts he based this accusation on wrong.
Trump’s lawyer Marc Kasowitz made the situation worse for the President by flat out lying and threatening James Comey with prosecution.
Acting as a surrogate for his father, Donald Trump Jr. unleashed a series of irrelevant Tweets attacking the former FBI director during the hearing earlier today.
FBI Director James Comey called President Trump’s threat that he better hope there are no tapes by saying, “I’ve seen the tweet about tapes. Lordy! I hope there are tapes.â€
When President Trump asked the then FBI Director to drop the Flynn investigation, Flynn was in legal jeopardy and was under FBI criminal investigation.
While testifying before the Senate, former FBI Director James Comey called President Trump a liar while discussing the reasons the White House gave for his firing.
Trump hasn’t tweeted all day, and the reason why is that his lawyers and a few advisers aren’t leaving him alone long enough to tweet during Comey’s testimony.
Read: The full text of former FBI Director James Comey’s prepared testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
If this is the new strategy from the Trump administration – to just remain silent when the American people demand answers – then Congress better come up with a way to fight back, and fast.
The poll also found that a staggering 60 percent of Americans believe the president’s relationship with Moscow is either “illegal” or “unethical.”
If anything, Comey’s statement raises more concerns and questions about Trump’s inappropriate conduct.
Ranking Member of the CIA Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Eric Swalwell (D-CA) told MSNBC that it was “inappropriate” of President Trump to ask for then FBI Director James Comey’s loyalty, to “so obsessively hound him” about the Mike Flynn case.
Vice President Mike Pence was so freaked out by the release of Comey’s opening statement that he canceled a scheduled interview with PBS and went into hiding.
Comey, who seems very prepared for all of these challenges, laid out exactly why he and FBI senior leadership didn’t go to Sessions with this information, and the reasons why call Sessions’ behavior into question.
Adam Schiff locked in on two allegations in James Comey’s opening statement that have the potential to bring down Trump and end his presidency.
Former FBI Director James Comey’s opening statements includes Trump asking him to drop the investigation into Mike Flynn, a part of the Trump Russia investigation, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.â€
President Trump was very upset about the salacious allegations and denied them, telling Comey he was considering ordering the FBI Director to investigation the alleged incident to prove it didn’t happen. Comey tried to explain to Trump that that might look like the FBI was investigating Trump personally, which they were not.
Former FBI Director James Comey’s opening statement for Senate Intel tomorrow includes President Trump demanding, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.â€
Sen. Warner asked the make or break question of the Russia hearing when he pointed out that the hearing is not about the Intel Chiefs’ “feelings,” but about facts regarding what was said to them by the President of the United States, who is “not above the law.”
Both the Director of National Intelligence and the NSA Director refused to answer when asked by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) if Trump ever asked them to intervene in the Russia investigation.
NSA Director Mike Rogers said that his communications with Trump were classified so he would not confirm or deny that Trump asked him to intervene on Russia.
The day after President Trump pressured the then FBI Director James Comey to drop the Trump Russia investigation, Comey reportedly confronted Jeff Sessions saying he didn’t want to be left alone again with Trump.
Trump wished Comey luck before the former FBI Director’s Senate testimony, but it isn’t James Comey who needs luck. It’s Donald Trump.
Comey is going to do something worse for Trump than accusing him of obstruction of justice. The former FBI Director is going to refute Trump’s claims and share his concerns about the President.
White House sources told Robert Costa that President Trump may live tweet during Comey’s Thursday Senate testimony if he feels the need to respond.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, took down Trump after the president complained that media doesn’t want him to tweet anymore.
Four top law firms turned down offers to represent Trump in the Russia investigation because they are concerned that the President won’t listen to them, and he won’t pay them.
The reality is starting to dawn on Republicans that they don’t know what Trump and his campaign did with Russia, so blindly covering for him might not be such a good idea.
“It’s been an ongoing assault. … I was doing nothing, I was doing nothing. … The meeting was about nothing,” Page said.
As the anxious president self-destructs via social media, CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox networks are all planning live coverage of James Comey’s congressional testimony.
A top secret NSA document obtained by The Intercept reveals that days before the 2016 election, Russian military intelligence launched a cyberattack on the U.S. that “raises the possibility that Russian hacking may have breached at least some elements of the voting system, with disconcertingly uncertain results.”
CBS has announced that they will be airing James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee live on broadcast television, which means that the Russia scandal has grown from cable news to full-scale broadcast network television.
The White House has announced that Trump won’t assert executive privilege and block James Comey from testifying in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Nunes may have recused himself from the Russia investigation, but he continues to play a major role.
It’s clear where the political energy is in this country right now, and it’s not with Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump does not plan to invoke executive privilege as a way to block former FBI Director James Comey from testifying to Congress next week, the New York Times said on Friday citing two unnamed senior administration officials.
Americans are reminding Donald Trump that they will not rest until the truth comes out about his administration’s ties to Russia.
House Judiciary Democrats are warning Trump that any attempt to block Comey from testifying will be viewed as an effort to obstruct justice.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is being potentially investigated by the Russia investigation special counsel for obstruction of justice related to the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
Former White House Special Counsel Greg Craig explains that Trump lost the ability to claim executive privilege when he opened his mouth and talked about his conversations with Comey.
At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Vladimir Putin tried to bail Trump out but made the president look guilty of colluding with the Russians.
Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible ties between the Trump election campaign and Russia, is expanding his probe to include a grand jury investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, three sources told Reuters.
The White House rushed to lift sanctions that the Obama administration imposed on Russia for interfering in the 2016 election.
MoveOn Civic Action and United To Protect Democracy have sent a letter to the Department of Justice urging an immediate investigation into White House senior adviser and presidential son in law Jared Kushner for undisclosed contacts with Russia.
Sen. Al Franken stated for the first time that he sent a letter to the FBI asking them to investigate Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Now, we have two of the letters.
The FBI is so outraged over the firing of former director James Comey that agents have doubled their investigative efforts into Trump and Russia. Instead of killing the FBI investigation, Trump and Jared Kushner created an inferno.
During an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on The Last Word, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) revealed that he sent a letter to the FBI after he found out about Jeff Sessions unreported contact with Russian ambassador.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) is warning that if Attorney General Jeff Sessions did have more meetings with the Russian ambassador that he didn’t disclose, then Sessions committed big time perjury.
Regardless of the motivations behind the latest Trump move, it’s clear the Russians are getting exactly what they had hoped for by helping this president win the White House in 2016.
The House Intelligence Committee will issue subpoenas for Mike Flynn, and Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen as the daily drip of Russia scandal news drowns Trump.
FBI Director James Comey will testify publicly next week that Donald Trump used the presidency to try to pressure the former FBI director into ending the investigation into Trump campaign collusion with Russia.
Not only did the Russians successfully interfere in last year’s presidential election to help Trump become president, but now they are successfully shaping U.S. policy in their favor.
Flynn needs to hand over every last shred of paperwork relevant to this probe, not hand over a few to give off the impression that he is being transparent.
House Oversight Committee Democrats have sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and a letter to National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers requesting all documents notes and conversations with Donald Trump. The Democrats are investigating whether Trump tried to obstruct the Russia investigation.
Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, has announced that he will not be participating in the congressional investigation of the Russia scandal, which means that the Trump team is pulling out all of the stops to deny investigators the information that they are looking for.
In his first daily press briefing since Trump returned from his foreign adventure, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer refused to the answer the question when he was asked if Donald Trump knew about Jared Kushner’s communications with Russia.
The Russia scandal is getting very personal for Trump as Congressional investigators are demanding that his lawyer Michael Cohen turn over documents related to the Russia investigation.
US intelligence has intercepted Russian communications that indicate their belief that members of Trump’s inner circle have been financially compromised. If true, this would suggest why Trump and those closest to him have refused to release tax returns and other financial information.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, put the pieces together and ripped apart the White House’s defense Jared Kushner’s secret communications with Russia during an interview on ABC’s This Week.
The embattled President of the United States is back in town, and just as angry and resentful as before he lost his phone privileges.
White House officials Gary Cohn and H.R. McMaster refused to comment on reports that Jared Kushner had unreported meetings with the Russians and tried to establish a back channel to Putin that couldn’t be detected by US intelligence.
If the Russians wanted to influence Trump, Kushner would be one of the top people they would use – and it appears Kushner had no problem offering his assistance.
“What did he intend to transmit through Russia’s secure cryptographic systems to communicate with Vladimir Putin? The presidential daily briefing? The nuclear codes?”
The White House appears to have gone into full bunker mentality mode over the Russia scandal by canceling a scheduled Trump rally in Iowa next week.
Jared Kushner’s lawyer issued a statement that didn’t deny that the President’s son in law and senior adviser may have committed treason by engaging in unreported contacts with Russia.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, had at least three previously undisclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, seven current and former U.S. officials told Reuters.
The Senate Intelligence Committee appears to be closing in on Donald Trump as they have requested all communications documents going back to the launch of his presidential campaign.
It is being reported that Jared Kushner requested a secret communications channel with the Kremlin. If this report is true, it would be the most direct proof of Trump collusion with Russia.
The White House is worried that Trump’s tweeting could put the president in legal jeopardy so they are creating a plan to run all of his tweets through a team of lawyers before they can be published.
By establishing a war room to fight the Russia collusion investigation, the Trump White House is all but admitting their guilt.
President Donald Trump’s White House is preparing to establish a ‘war room’ to combat mounting questions about ties between Russia and his presidential campaign, administration officials and persons close to Trump said, addressing a scandal that has threatened to consume his young presidency.
There are still many unanswered questions, but one thing is clear: Russia’s attempt to turn Trump into their puppet has been a wild success.
The investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia continues to move closer to the president as Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is now under new scrutiny by the FBI.
A new report confirms that Republican political operatives were working with the Russian government to hurt Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.
Jeff Sessions can’t stop lying about his contacts with Russian officials during last year’s campaign.
The Russians tried to take advantage of the fact that Trump is easily influenced by those around him and has no core convictions.
President Trump has meddled in the Russia investigation and tried to get the investigation dropped against Mike Flynn, but House Intel Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is warning that Flynn may be found in contempt of Congress if he ignores House subpoenas.
After Mike Flynn took the Fifth and refused to testify or turn over documents, the Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenaed two of Flynn’s businesses, because a corporation has no Fifth Amendment rights. This a point that should scare the living daylights out of Donald Trump.
After former CIA Director John Brennan had testified before the House Intelligence Committee, the White House released a statement that was borderline delusional about his testimony.
Trump’s Russia scandal matters because: “Our ability to choose our elected leaders as we see fit is, I believe, an inalienable right we must protect with all of our resources and all our authority and power,” Brennan told the committee.
During a House Intelligence Committee hearing where former CIA Director John Brennan was testifying about Russian interference in the 2016 election, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) had the nerve to make a collusion joke.
“Frequently individuals who go along a treasonous path do not even realize they are on that path until it gets to be a bit too late,” former director of the CIA John Brennan said while testifying in the House Intelligence hearing on the Russia investigation Tuesday.
When Trey Gowdy pushed, he got the former CIA Director to say, “I encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign.â€
Former CIA Director John Brennan testified that if media reports are accurate, President Trump violated at least two protocols when he leaked classified intelligence to Russia.
Now that Michael Flynn has refused to turn over documents under subpoena by the Senate Intelligence Committee, the committee has two main options, It can let it go, or the less likely option, try to hold Flynn accountable.
CNN’s report comes just hours after The Washington Post released a similar report alleging the same thing – that Trump tried to stop the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia
The increasingly explosive Russia scandal isn’t just dragging the president down – he’s taking the entire GOP with him.
Donald Trump is looking like a president who is guilty of something after it is being reported that he tried to get the Director of National Intelligence and the head of the National Security Agency to push back against the FBI’s investigation into his campaign’s potential collusion with Russia.
Not only are House Democrats accusing Mike Flynn of lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts and trips, but they are also very interested in what Vice President Mike Pence knew, and when he knew it.
Former Trump associates Paul Manafort and Roger Stone have turned over documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating the Russia scandal.
White House insiders describe Trump as rattled and down as the Russia investigation escalates and gets inside the West Wing.
Netanyahu did his best to keep his poker face up, but on two occasions the Israeli Prime Minister side eyed Trump as the President Of The United States outed Israel as the source of the intelligence that he leaked to Russia.
Trump pulled the media aside while in Israel on Monday and made the Russia scandal worse by denying that he told Russia that Israel was the source of the classified intelligence that he leaked to a hostile foreign power.
As the Trump administration continues to deny that they colluded with Russia, former national security adviser Mike Flynn will decline a subpoena from the Senate Intelligence Committee and invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
During an interview on CNN’s State Of The Union, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) wouldn’t say if the House Intelligence Committee investigation reaches into the White House, but he did say that President Trump and his campaign are being investigated for collusion with Russia.
