Hackers were targeting the dnc and other democratic operations. By the way, as candidate trump was publicly calling on the russians to publicly hack Hillary Clintons emails. We dont know the contact or motive before the conversations, but the word they happened is a big real development. We should note the kremlin and donald trump this morning are calling it fake news. Cnns jim sciutto has been working sources all day, all night on this story. Jim, bring us up to speed on where we are right now at 9 01 eastern time. I should knnote calling it fe news without the president or the white house responding to the substance of the reporting which weve asked them to do. Lets get to what the reporting is. One, two things caused alarm, raised red flags in u. S. Law enforcement and intelligence. First, the volume and frequency of the communications between trump advisers and the russians. Communications happen during campaigns, typically at a much lower level and much less frequent than what the
A trial that should have commenced on Wednesday of separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik for defying the rulings of an international peace envoy was adjourned until Jan. 17 over procedural issues brought up by his legal team. Dodik, who is the president of Bosnia´s autonomous Serb Republic, was indicted in August by state prosecutors after signing laws that suspended rulings by the constitutional court and by the peace envoy. This was the second time the trial has been postponed, after Dodik's lawyers requested last month that it should be moved to a court in the Serb Republic´s main city of Banja Luka, citing alleged political pressure on the state court in the capital Sarajevo.
ALBAWABA - China has taken a significant step in its involvement with the ongoing Ukraine crisis by sending a peace envoy to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.The an
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