Tag: Russia

US servicemen take part in the joint US-Georgia military exercise Noble Partner 2015 at the military base of Vaziani outside Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, May 17, 2015. Exercise Noble Partner is a bilateral effort focused on enhancing US and Georgian NATO Response Force interoperability in the context of military-to-military relationships, the United States Army Europe says on its website. It involves some 600 Georgian and US service members.

National Security

House passes defense policy bill beefing up Russia defenses

Travis J. Tritten · July 26, 2018 3:48 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump give a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday, July 16, 2018.

Putin’s missing show of support for Trump added to White House transcript of Helsinki presser

Diana Stancy Correll · July 26, 2018 2:48 pm

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

National Security

Podcast: Devin Nunes sticks with deep-state theories while defending FBI, Justice Department

David M. Drucker · July 26, 2018 9:00 am

In this Monday, Nov. 21, 2016 photo, trucks move along Interstate 35, in Laredo, Texas. Donald Trumpâs campaign promise to abandon the North American Free Trade Agreement helped win over Rust Belt voters who felt left behind by globalization. But the idea is unnerving to many people in cities on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Rep. Francis Rooney: Not all trade agreements are created equal

Rep. Francis Rooney · July 26, 2018 4:00 am

FILE - In this July 28, 2017, file photo, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., emerges from a House Republican Conference meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Bob Corker is hardly the only Republican lambasting President Donald Trump and raising dark concerns about harm the president might cause the U.S. and the world. Heâs just the only one whoâs sounding off in public. Meadows criticized Corker, saying he finds âthose type of comments to not be appropriate especially coming from the chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, and certainly not in keeping with what I know of the way that things are conducted in the West Wing, having been there multiple times.â

Mark Meadows: We can go around Paul Ryan to impeach Rod Rosenstein

Caitlin Yilek · July 26, 2018 3:16 am

President Donald Trump speaks at a luncheon with members of the United Nations Security Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.

Sarah Sanders on banning CNN reporter from event: ‘To be clear, we support a free press’

Caitlin Yilek · July 26, 2018 12:28 am

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

Pompeo infuriates senators with brash defense of Trump

Pete Kasperowicz · July 25, 2018 10:39 pm

FILE - In this July 13, 2018, file photo, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice. Rosenstein is defending the prosecution of foreign agents who may never see the inside of a U.S. courtroom. He says the prosecutions of agents involved in efforts to sow dissent in the U.S. political system or in cyber-attacks serves as a deterrent even when they are beyond the reach of U.S. authorities.

Justice Department again tells House lawmakers it has complied with nearly all documents requests

Kelly Cohen · July 25, 2018 9:55 pm

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg talks during a discussion in San Francisco.

Facebook, Twitter executives to appear before Senate Intel panel as part of Russia investigation: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · July 25, 2018 9:49 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his speech at the opening of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg Wednesday, July 25 2017. The summit runs through Friday with various heads of BRICS attending.

Beltway Confidential

The crucial BRICS summit matters to the US

Erin Dunne · July 25, 2018 9:39 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pauses as he testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill on July 25, 2018.

Pompeo defends lack of disclosure about Trump-Putin private meeting

Pete Kasperowicz · July 25, 2018 8:30 pm

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said in an interview that he would be open to releasing the transcript of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's testimony from a closed committee session in December 2017.

National Security

Devin Nunes: Suspicious about John Brennan Russia warnings from the start

David M. Drucker · July 25, 2018 8:15 pm