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President Trump claimed Sunday that documents on the wiretapping of a campaign adviser show that intelligence agencies misled the courts. But lawmakers from both parties say that isn’t true.   President Trump has again taken to Twitter to criticize the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

President Trump claimed Sunday that documents on the wiretapping of a campaign adviser show that intelligence agencies misled the courts. But lawmakers from both parties say that isn’t true.   President Trump has again taken to Twitter to criticize the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

MORE on Saturday broke his silence about the revelation that his former longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen secretly recorded one of their conversations before the 2016 election dealing with a payment over the story of a former Playboy model's alleged affair with Trump. "Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) - almost unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client - totally unheard of & perhaps illegal.

Director of National Intelligence reaction during a recent interview to the news that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been invited to the White House. Coats, speaking at the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday, was visibly surprised when NBC’s Andrea Mitchell told him that Putin had been invited to Washington, D.C., for a second meeting this fall. “Some press coverage has mis-characterized my intentions in responding to breaking news presented to me during a live interview.

Former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page on Saturday labeled the application for his government surveillance as “complete ignorance and/or insanity.” "I’m having trouble finding any small bit of this document that rises above complete ignorance and/or insanity," Page said in a text to The Hill on Saturday, following the release of the documents that allowed for federal surveillance of him. The Department of Justice released more than 400 pages of doc

The Justice Department on Saturday released documents related to the surveillance warrants on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page as part of the federal investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia. The documents have been at the heart of a controversy over alleged bias at the FBI. The heavily redacted application materials - an initial application and several applications to renew the surveillance - indicate that the FBI "believes Page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the Russian government ... to undermine and influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Saturday released documents related to the surveillance warrants on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page as part of the federal investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia. The documents have been at the heart of a controversy over alleged bias at the FBI. The heavily redacted application materials - 412 pages, including an initial application and several applications to renew the surveillance - indicate that the FBI "believes Page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the Russian government ...

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The TAKE with Rick Klein Call it a walk-back, a cleanup or a clarification. Just don’t call it over. President Donald Trump on Tuesday did something he rarely does in asking for a do-over of his comments about Russia meddling.