Section: POLITICO – U.S. Edition (USA)
Pence: I have no plans to meet with Putin
Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday night that he has no plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin but that the White House will continue to seek areas of cooperation with Russia.Appearing on Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Pence said there are “no plans on my part” to meet with Putin when host Bill O’Reilly...
Manafort’s Ukrainian ‘blood money’ caused qualms, hack suggests
Paul Manafort’s family expressed misgivings about the political consultant’s work for both Russia-aligned Ukrainian strongman Viktor Yanukovych and Donald Trump, according to text messages allegedly hacked from one of his daughters’ phones.The texts, posted on a darknet website run by a hacktivist collective, appear to show...
How to Know When a Trump Story Becomes a Scandal
What are the chances the larva of the Russia scandal now growing on the Trump presidency will mature into pupa form and ultimately emerge, wings flapping, as a spitting, snarling adult scandal? The elements of a rip-roaring scandal already exist. The president has cultivated—there is no other word for it—a screwy relationship with Russia’s...
Trump’s words send Cabinet on perpetual clean-up mission
With each passing day, Donald Trump’s Cabinet looks more like a clean-up crew.The president’s undiplomatic comments are repeatedly forcing his foreign policy and national security appointees into the awkward position of telling an anxious world that, basically, their boss didn’t really mean what he said.The latest example came...
Manafort faced blackmail attempt, hacks suggest
A purported cyber hack of the daughter of political consultant Paul Manafort suggests that he was the victim of a blackmail attempt while he was serving as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign chairman last summer.The undated communications, which are allegedly from the iPhone of Manafort’s daughter, include a text that appears to...
Town hall anger hits N.J. as Republican Lance faces the public
BRANCHBURG — For the first few minutes of Republican U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance’s town hall meeting Wednesday evening, it almost looked like he had won over a passionate anti-Trump crowd of nearly 1,000. Lance, an eight-year incumbent, answered a question about repeal of the Affordable Care Act by saying he supports “repairing” the...
Choice of McMaster likely to quell GOP hawks
President Donald Trump has picked one of the military’s leading warrior-scholars to restore order to the National Security Council — but also one who has staked out a decidedly more hawkish position on Russia and gone out of his way to assert that the war against terrorism must not be morph into a war against Islam.Lt. Gen. H.R....
Rep. Adam Schiff: The Full Transcript
For the third episode of Politico Magazine’s Susan B. Glasser’s new podcast, The Global Politico, she sat down with Congressman Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. A transcript of Glasser and Schiff’s conversations, and the podcast, follows:Well, hello. This Susan Glasser from the Global POLITICO....
Nunes eyes many national security issues ahead for Trump
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee suggested on Sunday the ousting of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as the White House national security adviser doesn’t top the list of national security concerns. “He’s the least of the problems we have in this whole issue,” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said on CBS’s “Face the...
Pence to Europe: We’re still with you
Vice President Mike Pence delivered assurances to European leaders Saturday that the United States is not withdrawing from the world stage under the rule of an “America First” president.“Today, on behalf of President Trump, I bring you this assurance: The United States of America strongly supports NATO and will be unwavering in our commitment to...
