Dick Cheney and Leon Panetta, who served at the highest levels of U.S. government, see potential unintended consequences of the Trump administration’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, including possible military action in the Middle East.
Republican U.S. Senator John McCain said on Wednesday the Senate should reject President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.
Maddow asked the companies how they expect the American people to believe that they hired Cohen for anything other than access to the president.
An attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels said he has additional evidence linking a Russian businessman to U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, as international and U.S. companies on Wednesday acknowledged large payments to Cohen’s consulting firm.
Unlike the Hillary Clinton non-scandal that Trump spent months lying about during the campaign, this one has a money trail – and it appears to lead directly to the president and his lawyer.
Telecommunications giant AT&T Inc, which paid President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen at least $200,000, said on Wednesday it had cooperated fully with the special counsel in the Russia probe.
Through his lawyers, Michael Cohen filed a letter calling Michael Avenatti’s claims inaccurate, but he didn’t provide any evidence to dispute them.
Six Democratic U.S. senators have asked billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to explain how an Icahn-owned refinery secured a valuable EPA exemption from the nation’s biofuels law.
Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said on MSNBC that the Michael Cohen investigation would provide evidence of the Trump/Russia conspiracy.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has interviewed Betsy DeVos’ brother and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, according to two sources.
Trump booster Erik Prince was at the Seychelles Islands meeting, during which possible efforts were made to set up a back channel between Trump and the Kremlin.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders had no answers as reporters asked her about Michael Cohen’s swampy behavior and the president who promised to drain the swamp.
Somehow lost in all the other news headlines over the past two days is a report from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee that confirms Russian attacks on the U.S. elections systems during the 2016 election cycle. And in confirming what happened, the Committee also explained how the Russian cyber-attacks compromised the systems in 18 states in…
Michael Cohen promised one of the world’s biggest drugmakers access to Trump and the White House in exchange for $1.2 million.
Dismayed European allies sought to salvage the international nuclear pact with Iran on Wednesday after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the landmark accord, while Tehran poured scorn on the U.S. leader.
According to people in both Trump and Cohen world, the $500,000 payment made to Michael Cohen by a Russian oligarch was meant to buy access to Trump.
AT&T Inc paid Essential Consultants, a company set up by U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, more than the $200,000 that came to light late on Tuesday, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that, after he announced the United States would be withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and imposing new sanctions, Iran would either negotiate or “something will happen.”
An attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels said President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, was paid $500,000 by a company with ties to a Russian oligarch who was hit last month with U.S. sanctions to punish Moscow for activities that included suspected meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
North Korea released three American prisoners and handed them over to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday, clearing a major obstacle to an unprecedented summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Senate Democrats along with Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine have filed a petition to force a vote on a bill to protect net neutrality before June 12.
U.S. President Donald Trump is not fit for his job, the speaker of Iran’s parliament said on Wednesday, according to Mizan, the website of the Iranian judiciary.
Trump’s own CIA nominee, Gina Haspel, says she would not follow any morally objectionable orders from Trump.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday that he was in no hurry to replace Eric Schneiderman as Attorney General of the Empire State because the office is in good hands with Acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood.  “I see no immediate rush because it’s not as if the Attorney General’s Office is rudderless in the…
When Barack Obama was president, Joe Biden was vice president, and John Kerry was secretary of state, the U.S. government seemed to operate much more smoothly. Those three people were not only brilliant and dedicated statesmen but they knew how to work together, tamping down their egos for the good of all. Now, however, the…
Last night at 10 pm EDT Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti appeared on The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell and elaborated on his bombshell disclosures about money flowing from Russia to a company set up by Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen. In effect he said he thought Cohen set up the company to receive…
