The ex-official suggested that had all members of Trump team approached by Russia gone to the FBI in real time, further developments could have been totally different.
As U.S. investigators probe whether President Donald Trump's campaign orchestrated a Russia-friendly change to the Republican Party platform last summer, three senior Capitol Hill aides — including Speaker Paul Ryan's chief of staff — may have answers about how the episode unfolded, according to Politico.
In three months after Donald Trump announced his candidacy, tweets from Russian accounts offered far more praise for the businessman than criticism, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Federal investigators have gathered enough evidence to bring charges in their investigation of President Donald Trump's former national security adviser and his son as part of the probe into Russia's intervention in the 2016 election, according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation, NBC News reported on Sunday.
The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday largely endorsed the findings of the intelligence community that Russia sought to sway the 2016 U.S. elections through a hacking and influence campaign, and they called for a "more aggressive, whole-of-government approach" to ensure future elections are not similarly compromised, according to The Washington Post.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Tuesday night that Russian "clearly" meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, CBS News reports.
Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters.