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Bloomberg reports. Tillerson refused Trump's 2017 request, saying it would be illegal to interfere with an ongoing investigation. He repeated his stance to then-chief of staff MORE in a hallway conversation in the White House. At the time, Reza Zarrab, the trader in question, was being prosecuted by a New York federal court on charges of evading U.S. sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program, according to Bloomberg. As a result, Zarrab hired Giuliani and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey. Giuliani reportedly reached out to U.S.

MORE on Wednesday said he's not concerned about ISIS prisoners potentially escaping as the U.S. vacates northern Syria, claiming the escapees would end up Europe.  Trump was asked in the Roosevelt Room of the White House about the potential threat of an ISIS resurgence, should its fighters escape once the U.S. leaves the region.  "Well they’re going to be escaping to Europe. That’s where they want to go. They want to go back to their homes," Trump said. "But Europe didn't want them from us," he added. "We could've given it to them.

Democrats are charging ahead with their impeachment inquiry despite a White House vow not to cooperate in the investigation, all but daring MORE to stonewall the probe and add fuel to allegations that obstruction itself is an impeachable offense. The White House escalated the standoff between Democrats and the president on Tuesday in a letter disregarding the impeachment probe as illegitimate and warning it won't respond to congressional requests for information. Yet Democrats on Wednesday said they expected nothing less from an administration that for months has larg

MORE is barreling toward a showdown with Congress over his decision to pull back U.S.

MORE on Wednesday criticized the Kurds, saying they didn't help the United States during World War II and that they were only fighting for their land in Syria during the battle against ISIS. “The Kurds are fighting for their land,” Trump told reporters at the White House during an event in the Roosevelt Room. “And as somebody wrote in a very, very powerful article today, they didn’t help us in the second World War, they didn’t help us with Normandy as an example. They mentioned names of different battles.

The Washington Examiner’s Byron York reported Tuesday that the intelligence officer “whistleblower” had a “professional relationship” with a 2020 Democrat presidential candidate and was a registered Democrat, which critics could use to accuse the “whistleblower” of bias against President Donald Trump and his administration. However, the New York Times‘ Nicholas Fandos also

Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, threatened to call Volker to testify before his panel if Democrats did not meet his demand. Volker is at the center of the impeachment investigation. He resigned as the special envoy to Ukraine at the end of last month as the inquiry began to heat up. Sen. Graham described the House Democrats’ refusal to make the full transcript of Volker’s deposition last Thursday public as “an abuse of power.” Rep.

Biden, as vice president, pushed for the firing of the then-chief prosecutor of Ukraine, who had been investigating the CEO of a company that employed his son on its board at $50,000 a month. At Biden’s urging, the chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin was fired and the investigation was eventually closed. Biden, during an official work trip to China in late 2013, brought his son, who had business meetings during the trip.

This comes in the wake of a top-ranking congressional intelligence committee staffer facing similar charges of leaking last year and sets the stage for a larger fight between Trump and intelligence community leakers. The nature of these intelligence community leakers’ deeply personal relationships with the reporters to whom they were leaking — both cases involved romantic relationships — seems more like a House of Cards episode than real life. But the federal law enforcement charges against each casts the intelligence community as a whole in a deeply negative light, as Democrats on Ca

WASHINGTON — Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren released a plan Wednesday calling for environmental justice in responding to climate change, proposing steps to reduce what she called the disproportionate effect that pollution has on low-income and minority communities. Warren, who has made the fight against climate change a key to her Democratic presidential campaign, said