Tag: Russia

National Security

Watergate prosecutor compares Trump-Putin summit to Pearl Harbor, Kristallnacht

Caitlin Yilek · July 17, 2018 7:59 am

Michael Anton, National Security Adviser, waits in the East Room of the White House in Washington of the start of President Donald Trump's news conference, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017.

Ex-NSC official denies canceling on CNN because he ‘could not defend’ Trump after Helsinki presser

Diana Stancy Correll · July 17, 2018 4:28 am

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, not pictured, in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday, July 16, 2018. TrumpÂ called Special CounselÂ Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling a "disaster" on Monday, again questioned whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election that he won and suggested he equally trusted his national intelligence director andÂ PutinÂ -- all as he stood next to the Russian leader.

Trump is his own worst enemy

Noemie Emery · July 17, 2018 4:00 am

President Trump looks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a press conference after their meeting in Finland on July 16, 2018.

National Security

Hell-sinki: Trump’s Russia comments a bipartisan flop

W. James Antle III · July 17, 2018 4:00 am

FILE- In this June 28, 2018, file photo, rolls of finished steel are seen at the U.S. Steel Granite City Works facility in Granite City, Ill. Canada began imposing tariffs Sunday, July 1, on $12.6 billion in U.S. goods as retaliation for the Trump administration's new taxes on steel and aluminum imported to the United States. Some U.S. products, mostly steel and iron, face 25 percent tariffs, the same penalty the United States slapped on imported steel at the end of May.

Trump’s aluminum tariffs restore a crucial industry and protect American jobs

Jesse Gary, Bob Prusak · July 17, 2018 4:00 am

Byron York: Why Trump doesn’t admit Russian election interference

Byron York · July 17, 2018 3:45 am

National Security

GOP lawmakers want DOJ inspector general to find out if Rod Rosenstein threatened House Intel staff

Diana Stancy Correll · July 17, 2018 2:39 am

Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves the federal courthouse in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, in Washington.

Trump: What’s going on with Paul Manafort, ‘it’s like Al Capone’

Caitlin Yilek · July 17, 2018 2:24 am

Confirmation that Guccifer did break into Clinton's server would likely be a hit to FBI Director James Comey's credibility.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

James Comey to Trump: Sit down with a ‘serious journalist’

Daniel Chaitin · July 17, 2018 2:20 am

Trump on Putin meeting: ‘It was great today, but I think it was really bad’ before

Diana Stancy Correll · July 17, 2018 2:12 am

President Trump gestures while speaking as Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during their joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland on July 16, 2018.

Trump: If Russia had dirt on me, ‘It would be out’

Caitlin Yilek · July 17, 2018 1:42 am

National Intelligence Director Dan Coats waits for the start of a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 23, 2017.

National Security

Retired admiral: How can Dan Coats can go to work ‘knowing his boss values his assurances’ no more than Putin’s

Diana Stancy Correll · July 17, 2018 12:17 am