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The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday that MORE’s request to ask them for assistance in an ongoing investigation into the origins of the Russian interference probe. “As the Department of Justice has previously announced, a team led by U.S. Attorney MORE is investigating the origins of the U.S. counterintelligence probe of the Trump 2016 presidential campaign. Mr.

“The Horowitz report is coming soon,” Graham said Monday evening when reached by phone. “The focus of the Judiciary Committee will hear testimony from him, and follow whatever leads the report gives us about the FISA warrant and the counterintelligence investigation.

The incumbent Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards has not come out in opposition to what his party is doing nationally, but rather is brushing aside questions about impeachment, calling it a “distraction.” But his chief GOP rival Rep.

Freeman, the assistant editor of the WSJ’s editorial page, noted that Republican Sens.

The Atlantic Council is funded by and routinely works in partnership with Burisma, the natural gas company at the center of allegations regarding Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. The Schiff staffer, Thomas Eager, is also currently one of 19 fellows at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Congressional Fellowship, a bipartisan program that says it “educates congressional staff on current events in the Eurasia region.” Eager’s trip to Ukraine last month w

US Representative Adam Schiff of California is leading the House Intelligence Committee investigation into President Trump’s phone call with the leader of Ukraine. Here are six things to know about him. Schiff grew up in Framingham before moving with his family to Northern California at age 11, according to a New Yorker profile. He’d soon return to Massachusetts, however. He attended Harvard Law School after graduating from Stanford University in 1982.

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr has held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials seeking their help in a Justice Department inquiry that President Trump hopes will discredit US intelligence agencies’ examination of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the matter. Barr’s personal involvement may stoke further criticism from Democrats pursuing impeachment saying he is helping the Trump administration use executive branch powers to augment investigations aimed primarily at the president’s adversaries.

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Senator Elizabeth Warren seems to have a detailed plan for everything. But her strategy so far in South Carolina, which holds a crucial early presidential primary, is a work in progress. She’s taken the polling lead or is running neck-and-neck with former vice president Joe Biden in the states with the first three nominating contests: Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Mark Sanford, a primary challenger to President Donald Trump, has said he won’t solicit contributions from his longtime donor base until he’s ‘‘proven a measure of electoral success.’’ Bill Kristol has yet to fully activate a super PAC aimed at hurting Trump’s reelection chances. And Stuart Stevens, the top strategist for Sen.