https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...-care-i-believe-putin-when-confronted-with-us McCabe: Trump said 'I don't care, I believe Putin' when confronted with US intel on North Korea Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said that President Trump dismissed intelligence on North Korea given to him by U.S. officials, telling them, "I don't care, I believe Putin." Trump told officials in a meeting that he did not believe North Korean missiles could strike the U.S. mainland because Russian President Vladimir Putin told him those missiles did not exist, according to McCabe. "Intelligence officials in the briefing responded that that was not consistent with any of the intelligence our government possesses to which the president replied, "I don't care. I believe Putin,"" McCabe told host Scott Pelley in an interview with 60 Minutes released Sunday.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/02/17/politics/cambridge-analytica-director-special-counsel/index.html?r=https://www.google.com/ Former Cambridge Analytica director cooperated with special counsel subpoena Ex-Cambridge Analytica exec: We had access to Breitbart data (CNN) — A former director of Cambridge Analytica, who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after the 2016 US presidential election, was subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller's office and cooperated, according to her lawyer. Brittany Kaiser was a director at the controversial data company that worked for the Trump campaign and visited Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has been living since he was granted asylum to avoid extradition in 2012. Kaiser's lawyer Jim Walden told CNN, "The Mueller subpoena was issued long ago, and Brittany has already discharged her obligations. Whatever interest there was in Brittany seems past."
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/02/21/po...nis-intl/index.html?r=https://www.google.com/ Senate investigators pursue Moscow-based former Trump associate London and Moscow (CNN) — Senate investigators want to question a Moscow-based American businessman with longstanding ties to President Donald Trump after witnesses told them he could shed light on the President's commercial and personal activities in Russia dating back to the 1990s, multiple sources have told CNN. The Senate Intelligence Committee, which is probing allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 elections, has been keen to speak with David Geovanis for several months, the sources say.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/26/robert-mueller-appointment-legal-1186701 Mueller scores big win as court rejects challenge to his appointment Special counsel Robert Mueller scored one of the biggest legal wins of his tenure on Tuesday, as a federal appeals court rejected claims that his appointment was unconstitutional. In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals turned aside arguments that Mueller wields so much power as a special prosecutor that he should have been nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The appeals court judges also found no flaw in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s appointment of Mueller in the wake of the recusal of then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The court said that because the attorney general can repeal the regulations used to appoint Mueller at any time, he remains under the control of a Cabinet official.
President Trump knew his longtime adviser Roger Stone was in talks with WikiLeaks about releasing damaging information on Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign when they were presidential candidates. Cohen had previously lied to Congress about a Trump Tower project in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign. While president, Trump wrote Cohen a check from his personal bank account to reimburse him for payments he had earlier made to porn star Stormy Daniels (Trump has previously stated he didn't knowCohen had paid her $130,000 before the election.). https://www.axios.com/michael-cohen...261-85402c7d-3170-430a-ac24-a0ba490e2344.html
Looks like Trump went shopping around https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/politics/trump-jr-saudi-uae-nader-prince-zamel.html Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...trump-tower-meeting-time-190308194101138.html According to the New York Times, that meeting was attended by Prince, Donald Trump Jr, George Nader, a former Blackwater employee and emissary for the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Stephen Miller, then a top aide to the Trump campaign and currently a senior policy adviser to the president and Joel Zamel, whose company Psy-Group employed former Israeli intelligence operatives and specialised in social media manipulation and was reportedly contacted by Rick Gates, a top Trump campaign official, for proposals for social media manipulation to help Trump win the election. Prince, however, apparently did not disclose information about the meeting when testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on November 30, 2017, according to a public transcript. Prince testified under oath that he had "no official, or, really unofficial role" in the Trump campaign. He also told the House panel that he did not have any formal communications or contact with the campaign other than policy papers given to Steve Bannon, attending some fundraisers and a "yard sign". https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday...-did-not-disclose-2016-trump-tower-meeting-to Schiff: Erik Prince did not disclose 2016 Trump Tower meeting to Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that Erik Prince did not disclose during 2017 testimony to the panel that he had attended a 2016 Trump Tower meeting to discuss Iran. Prince said during an interview that aired Friday on Al Jazeera's "Head to Head" that he was present at an Aug. 3, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower to "talk about Iran policy." He added that he disclosed the meeting during November 2017 testimony before the Intelligence Committee, even though it does not appear in a transcript of his testimony. Schiff said Sunday during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Prince, the former head of Blackwater and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, was "certainly not telling the truth" about his testimony in the Al Jazeera interview.