(CNN) — The House of Representatives has won access to secret grand jury material gathered in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and cited in the Mueller report, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday. The ruling may breathe new life into a House Judiciary Committee investigation into President Donald Trump for obstruction of […]
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(CNN) — A federal judge Thursday criticized Attorney General William Barr for his handling of the Mueller report when it was released last spring, saying Barr’s early description of the report didn’t match the special counsel’s actual conclusions. Judge Reggie Walton asked if Barr’s actions were a “calculated attempt” to help President Donald Trump and opined the […]
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(CNN) — The US attorney whose nomination for a top Treasury Department job was yanked because she ran the office that oversaw Roger Stone’s prosecution has resigned, an administration official tells CNN. Jessie Liu, who previously headed the US attorney’s office in Washington, submitted her resignation to the Treasury Department, effective Wednesday evening. She went […]
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The four federal prosecutors who took the case against longtime Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone to trial withdrew their involvement Tuesday after top Justice Department officials disavowed and undercut them by reducing the government’s recommended sentence against Stone. The stunning and politically charged decision to reduce prosecutors’ recommended sentence of up to nine years came hours after […]
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The Justice Department has released another 300 pages of notes from major witness interviews in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The documents, include memos — called 302s by the FBI — from Andrew McCabe, Sean Spicer, Reince Priebus, Rick Gates, Michael Cohen and Steve Bannon. This is the fifth time CNN has gotten documents like […]
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Six associates of President Donald Trump have been convicted of crimes since he took office, all stemming from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Some of the defendants pleaded guilty, and others were convicted after jury trials. Some, but not all, of the charges were related to Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Here is a complete list. […]
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As President Donald Trump has been openly feuding with House Democrats pursuing investigations into him, his administration and his finances, dozens of lawmakers — almost entirely Democrats — are calling to start an impeachment inquiry, the first step in a lengthy and likely divisive process. Those calls have grown louder following testimony from former special counsel Robert Mueller before […]
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The House Judiciary Committee on Friday is moving to obtain the secret grand jury material from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in federal court, arguing they need the information in order to decide whether to impeach President Donald Trump. The lawsuit, which was filed Friday, escalates the investigation into the President being conducted by the committee that […]
