Section: US & Canada
Russia says it hopes US wouldn't release Trump-Putin calls
A spokesperson for the Kremlin expressed concern that the U.S. could publish transcripts of calls between President Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin following the publication this week of a readout of a call between Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr… …read more Source:: The...
Kremlin: Phone calls between Presidents Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin will stay classified
On the heels of a political brouhaha in the United States over President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s leader, the Kremlin said Friday it will keep calls between Trump and President Vladimir Putin secret. …read more Source:: United Press...
Trump demands Schiff resign over account of Ukraine call
President Trump on Friday demanded House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) “immediately” resign from Congress for reading what the congressman described as a parody of the president’s phone call with… …read more Source:: The...
Concerned That CIA Was Not Taking Allegations Seriously, Whistleblower Filed IG Complaint
The intelligence community whistleblower, identified as a CIA officer by the New York Times, initially took his allegations to the agency’s general counsel, only deciding to lodge his now-famous complaint when he realized that the general counsel had alerted the White House. According to the Times, when the CIA officer went to general...
Russia’s Fingerprints Are All Over Trump’s Ukraine Whistleblower Scandal
Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/GettyElements of at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
White House, DOJ learned about whistleblower around same time complaint was filed: report
The White House and Justice Department knew about a whistleblower’s complaint regarding the President Trump’s contacts with Ukraine’s president even as the CIA official who authored it was submitting the complaint to the… …read more Source:: The...
Amid Ukraine Scandal, Kremlin Expects Trump-Putin Conversations To Stay Classified
The Kremlin says it expects conversations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump to remain classified as a scandal involving a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy engulfs Washington. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Pence advised Trump against releasing partial transcript of Ukraine call: report
Vice President Mike Pence urged President Trump not to release a memo detailing his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week amid a scandal over Trump’s efforts to persuade the Ukraine leader to direct a… …read more Source:: The...
Trump officials were reportedly so alarmed by his Ukraine call that the transcript had to be printed out and passed around by hand
A whistleblower complaint alleged that officials were “disturbed” by the call between Trump and Ukraine and moved to “lock down” the transcript. …read more Source:: Business...
Kremlin says it hopes US wouldn’t release Trump-Putin calls
Russia has voiced hope that the U.S. administration wouldn’t publish private conversations between the two nations’ presidents, like it did with Ukraine …read more Source:: The Washington...
