Trump faces questions of interference in investigations

In a letter sent Thursday, Trump’s top White House lawyer invited the highest-ranking lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees to view classified materials, which it said had been uncovered in the “ordinary course of business”. Spicer depicted that scenario as ridiculous.

“I don’t know what he knows”, Spicer said, adding that he tries not to make it a habit of getting into the specifics of what’s in the report. She says she was offering advice to associates and did not pass on actual information.

Trump and White House strategist Steve Bannon reportedly personally intervened to keep the poorly-regarded Cohen-Watnick on the NSC, after National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster sought to replace him earlier this month.

A national security aide whose appointment stirred controversy is reportedly behind a White House leak that is roiling Congress and the Trump administration.

Spicer confirmed that this was the new policy during Friday’s briefing.

Cohen-Watnick is among about a dozen White House officials who would have access to the types of classified information Nunes says he viewed, according to current and former USA officials. “It turns out, he misled me“, Lake wrote.

Numerous private citizens connected with President Donald Trump’s campaign team were “unmasked” in intelligence information swept up in “incidental collection” that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes secretly viewed last week, according to news reports on Friday.

“Sadly, the House Intelligence Committee Chairman is either unwilling or incapable of conducting a fair investigation”, said Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) on the House floor, urging that an independent Special Counsel investigate Russia’s intervention in the election. See Newsday’s story by Emily Ngo and Tom Brune. While at the White House, officials say, Schiff also met with Trump.

“General Flynn certainly has a story to tell, and he very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit”, Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner, said in a statement.

So far, he has no takers.

Nunes, in a Bloomberg interview on Monday, said that none of his sources worked at the White House.

“These reports call into question Dr. Gorka’s suitability to hold a Top-Secret security clearance to serve as a senior advisor to the President”, the letters assert, though in a separate list of questions the senators asked “Does Dr. Gorka hold a security clearance?” See Dan Janison’s column for Newsday.

In a moment that stunned the hearing room, Watts flatly stated that the president himself has become a cog in such Russian measures.

For the White House, it was another chaotic day in which its attempt to regain control of the political conversation – this time through two executive orders on trade – was relegated to an afterthought in Washington.

“The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don’t get on the team, & fast”. Why would they go on to ask that the names be unmasked?

The official explanation was that after the health-care bill’s collapse, Walsh realized she could be of more value to the White House from the outside, helping guide a pro-Trump group that has provided nearly no air cover for the president or his agenda.

This week, the White House latched onto a month-old television interview from an Obama administration official who said she encouraged congressional aides to gather as much information on Russian Federation as possible before the inauguration.

Here’s what happened. In a remarkable moment, one key witness, Clinton Watts, a senior fellow at the George Washington Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, bluntly informed Sen.