Four top national security officials were pressed repeatedly about whether President Trump had asked any of them to try to curtail the F.B.I. investigation into whether his associates coordinated with the Russian effort to interfere in the election. They mostly sidestepped the questions, visibly frustrating senators, reports The New York Times. Fox: Fast and Furious […]

President Trump jumped headlong Tuesday into a fast-worsening dispute between Qatar and a powerful bloc of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia, posting Twitter messages congratulating the Saudis for cracking down on the neighboring kingdom and himself for sparking the breach over alleged Qatari funding for terrorism, reports The Washington Post. WashExaminer: Rex Tillerson: Trump Wants […]

President Trump on Monday derided the revised travel ban as a “watered down” version of the first and criticized his own Justice Department’s handling of the case — potentially hurting the administration’s defense of the ban as the legal battle over it reaches a critical new stage, reports The Washington Post. WashPost: White House Formally […]

Two Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked the FBI since March to investigate Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ contacts with Russian officials, reports CBS. Telegraph: ‘Washington Can’t Stop Americans’: Michael Bloomberg Pledges to Pay US Share of Paris Climate Funding Reuters: Putin on Paris Deal: ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ Politico: Conway Won’t Rule out Trump Trying to […]

The FBI and Congress are examining a campaign event last spring during which Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions and Jared Kushner were in a small gathering with Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak and other diplomats at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel, multiple U.S. officials told NBC News. The Hill: European, Chinese Leaders Unite on Paris Climate Deal […]