that is a part of his legacy. he didn t bring down deficit spending. shannon: he certainly wanted to. a hard sell. how does his leadership race shakeout? the reason paul ran a speaker of the house right now is because kevin mccarthy, the majority leader, did not have the votes to succeed john boehner when he stepped aside in october of 2015. the fact of this is almost a leadership race, a lot of people thought there was going to be blood on the floor if they couldn t get people to step into the fray. that was paul ryan a couple of years ago. that is why you are hearing about kevin mccarthy now, who is certainly solidified his place with the house are public and congress. very close with president trump. the fact that steve scalise is on the radar now tells you a lot. this should be locked up for mccarthy. steve scalise literally took a bullet for the team on the baseball practice field last june in alexandria, virginia. that is why his name is in the mix. he said he would like to m
candidacy and brought trump a letter of intent to sign in october of 2015. cohen later reached out for vladimir putin s personal spokesman for help with the deal in january of 2016. and during the first weeks of the trump administration, cohen delivered a sealed proposal to the white house outlining a way to lift sanctions against russia which cohen described as a peace plan for the ukraine. there is no indication that cohen is the subject or target of the investigation and cohen s attorney rejected the notion that he is under particular scrutiny. and said in a statement, quote, unsourced innuendo succeeds only because the leakers know the special counsel will not respond to set the record straight. there are calls from republican leaders for new special counsel one to investigate allegations of bias and conflicts of interest at the justice department as it investigated russia meddling. question from the chairman of
the united states. the washington post is reporting that robert mueller who s requested documents and interviewed witnesses that incidents involving the president s attorney who long served in the organization, he s not said to be target of the investigation, but cohen was involved in discussions with trump tower project in moscow during the first months of trump s candidacy and brought a letter to trump for an attempt to sign in october of 2015. he later said that he reached out to vladimir putin s personal spokesman for help with the deal. during the first weeks cohen delivered a sealed proposal to the white house outlining a way to lift sanctions against russia which cohn described as a peace trea treaty. leakers know the special council
tells anyone who followed her, until you press the button. her life was displayed online. blogging the smallest of details. that was until a russian tv news service outed her as a potential russian troll. rain tv, an independent russian news channel says it confirmed through former employees of the internet research agen that she worked here, at the st. petersburg, russia, agency, the one that s at the center of the u.s. investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. in her own linkedin account she describes working at the company called mixed info from 2014 through october of 2015. the company was named in the recent indictment from special counsel robert mueller s office as one of several fronts the internet research agency used to obscure its conduct. though burdonova is not accused in any crime nor listed in that
potential russian troll. an independent news channel says it confirmed through former employees of the internet research agency that the woman worked here at the st. petersburg russia agency the one in the center in the center of the meddling of the election. she describes working at the company called mix info from 2014 through october of 2015. the company was named in the recent indictment from special counsel robert mueller s office as one of several fronts that the internet agency used to obscure its conduct. though the woman is not accused of any crime or listed in the indictment, the description of her work mirrors the type of activities outlined by u.s. prosecutors. her own account describes her as translations between russian and