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Director of National Intelligence MORE and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. “You’re right, I don’t know what happened in that meeting,” Coats told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell at the Aspen Security Forum. “I think that as time goes by — the president has already mentioned some things that happened in that meeting — I think we will learn more,” he said, “but that is the president’s prerogative.” Coats added that he would have advised Trump against meeting one-on-one with Putin, but added “that’s not my role.” Democrats are demanding to know what Trump and Putin di

The Trump administration is proposing significant changes to the way it enforces the Endangered Species Act (ESA), saying they are a needed modernization of decades-old regulations, but wildlife groups say the changes will put endangered animals and plants at risk. The proposal would make it easier to delist an endangered species and would withdraw a policy that offered the same protections for threatened species as for endangered species unless otherwise specified. It would streamline interagency consultations and make it more difficult to protect habitat near land where endangered species li

The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution warning MORE not to let the Russian government question diplomats and other officials, shortly after the White House released a statement backpedaling on a proposal to allow Moscow to help interrogate U.S. citizens such as former Ambassador Michael McFaul. “That President Trump would even consider handing over a former U.S. ambassador to Putin and his cronies for interrogation is bewildering. …This body must agree on the importance of protecting our ambassadors.

The White House on Thursday backed off a proposal from Russian President Vladimir Putin to question U.S. citizens over alleged crimes in Russia after initially indicating MORE would consider the matter. “It is a proposal that was made in sincerity by President Putin, but President Trump disagrees with it," press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.

Senate Republicans are attempting to dissuade MORE from holding another summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin anytime soon. Many GOP senators regard Trump's meeting with the Russian leader in Helsinki earlier this week as a political disaster. Congressional Republicans have since come under intense pressure to renounce the president's embrace of Putin on the world stage, particularly his apparent acceptance of Putin’s denial that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. ADVERTISEMENT

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The TAKE with MaryAlice Parks What happens now? Before the extraordinary press conference Monday, the German foreign minister said in an interview: "We can no longer fully rely on the White House." After President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin stood side by side, some Republican lawmakers, and Trump's

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.

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