Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Trump tower meeting between allegedly his son and some russians and some other folks. And it is true that parts of that investigation have blossomed into whole new areas, such as the manafort trial, which has nothing at all to do with the original russia investigation. In fact its one of the bases that manafort asked the judge to throw that case out, that it exceeded the power of the Special Counsel. So its hard to say what exactly Kristin Davis has information about, because the scope of this investigation is so broad. Just to give a little better sense pulling back the curtain from my conversations in my day job working over at the white house, in a series of conversations i had late this week with sources close to the president , they all tell me that the president s frustration specifically as it relates to paul manafort, remember that specific case he attacked as a hoax on twitter earlier this week, is in the
Dan coats, kirstjen nielsen, National Security advisor john bolton and the head of u. S. Cybercommand and director of the nsa each delivered stark warnings about ongoing Election Interference donald trump was on stage at a rally in pennsylvania calling the entire investigation into russias effort to attack our elections a hoax. In helsinki, i had a great meeting with putin. We discussed everything. I had a great meeting. As i have said consistently, russia attempted to interfere with the last election and continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. But i got along great with putin, and everybody said, wow, that was a great. The russians are looking for every opportunity regardless of party, regardless of whether or not it applies to the election to continue their pervasive efforts to undermine our
fundamental values. Now we are being hindered by the russian hoax. Its a hoax. Our democracy itself is in the crosshairs. If i get along with vladimir putin, thats a good