Trump’s aides told to preserve Russia-related materials

Who didn’t do it: The Times says Obama was not personally involved.

Coats told senators Russian Federation “definitely” tried to influence the presidential race, but echoed the spy agencies’ careful agnosticism by adding, “to what extent they were successful, I don’t think we know”.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is also conducting its own investigation, and has asked more than one dozen agencies, individuals and organizations to preserve records and communications of interest. The somewhat obscure legislative tool would require the Department of Justice to hand over any documents related to “any criminal or counterintelligence investigation targeting” of Trump.

President Trump’s claims that the Obama administration sought to undermine his presidency received some support on Wednesday from a New York Times report on the Obama White House’s activities in the weeks before the inauguration.

A White House official told CBS News’ Margaret Brennan that this is “simply taking proactive steps to push back against false and politically motivated attacks”. The prime minister also said that Russian Federation could assist in building meaningful dialogue between the Tripoli authorities and representatives of the eastern Libyan political camp. He visited the country in 2013.

An investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 USA presidential election is to go ahead.

The Senate Intelligence Committee made a similar request to the White House.

As information piled up on Trump-Russia links, White House officials looked for ways to distribute the information that was often classified as widely as possible among those with the required security clearance.

“No one has ever showed us any evidence that any collusion had occurred between an American involved with the political system and the Russians”, Ryan said at a breakfast with television correspondents, according to NBC News. Both Nunes and Sen.

The move comes after Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked the White House and law enforcement agencies to keep materials related to Trump associates’ alleged ties to Russian Federation.

The US House intelligence panel inquiry will scrutinise contacts between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Moscow, BBC reported.

Earlier this year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed Michael Flynn, then Trump’s national security adviser, about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the US after the election.

Continuing a months-long feud with the U.S. intelligence agencies, Trump has accused career intelligence officials of leaks about his associates’ closeness with Russian Federation and castigated them as holdovers from Barack Obama’s administration. “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I did not have communications with the Russians”.

Anonymous sources also told the newspaper that Trump’s Justice Minister Jeff Sessions had two meetings with the Russian Ambassador to the United States past year.

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