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Cobb was named White House special counsel overseeing the legal and media response to the probe of Russian interference in the election, report CNN, Bloomberg News, the New York Times and the National Law Journal (sub.

Most recently, his office is reportedly working with White House special counsel Robert Mueller as part of an investigation into former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Friday told reporters that firing White House special counsel Robert Mueller would risk a «constitutional crisis» and his investigation into Russian collusion should proceed without White House intervention.

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Trump, speaking Monday to reporters at the White House, defended Cohen as a «good man» and blasted Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe as «an attack on our country, in a true sense.»

According to the National Archives» communications with Grassley, however, he sent an initial records request to the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, on May 17, 2017 — the same day special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to oversee the Russia probe.

President Donald Trump shook up his legal team yet again on Wednesday, signaling a shift in the White House's approach to the Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.

That timeline has become a focus for Robert Mueller, the special counsel who is examining why it took 18 days for the White House to remove Flynn after a stark warning from Sally Yates, the acting attorney general.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to making false statements to the FBI, the first Trump White House official to make a guilty plea so far in a wide - ranging investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Legal experts told Business Insider that the plea deal struck by Michael Flynn, the former White House national security adviser, with the special counsel Robert Mueller was most likely evidence that Flynn has damaging information to offer prosecutors on other persons of interest in the Russia investigation.

White House officials tout the appointment of US Attorney John Huber as basically a second special counsel on the FBI investigation but some conservative critics say his appointment is nothing more than window - dressing, the Hill reports.

He follows other current and former senior White House officials who have already met with the special counsel's office as he examines the firing of former FBI Director James Comey and misleading statements about the Trump Tower meeting.

The questioning about whether the White House was seeking to oust Mueller came as top conservative boosters of Trump sought to delegitimize Mueller, a former FBI director who took the special counsel job after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

This led The Wall Street Journal editorial board, referencing investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller and the House and Senate intelligence committees, to ask the Trump administration to pursue a policy of «radical transparency.»

When President Donald Trump reportedly ordered the firing of the special counsel Robert Mueller, White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to quit.

But congressional Democrats and Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, who helped draft the GOP memo, have said it shouldn't be used to undermine the special counsel.

Goodlatte, according to The Post and the two letters he sent through the House Judiciary Committee, appears to be focusing particularly on Comey, and has asked that a second special counsel investigate «leaks» about his private conversations with Trump.

The White House is reportedly in a state of turmoil over the latest developments in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, which has implicated two key figures in President Donald Trump's campaign.

Sessions began contemplating the option after House Judiciary Committee chairman Robert Goodlatte asked Sessions in July and September to appoint a special counsel to investigate «matters which may be outside the scope» of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, including whether members of President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow to sway the election in his favor.

WASHINGTON — A group of Republicans will take the House floor Tuesday evening to call for the recusal of Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

On Wednesday, the White House announced that it had hired a veteran lawyer who helped President Bill Clinton weather impeachment, while Trump's top personal lawyer expressed new defiance towards special counsel Robert Mueller and his Justice Department superiors.

Calls to appoint a second special counsel came as early as July, when House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte wrote a letter urging Sessions to consider it.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly investigating whether former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort promised a banker a job in the White House in return for home loans.

The White House announced the hiring of lawyer Emmet Flood after disclosing the retirement of Ty Cobb, who for months has been the administration's point person dealing with special counsel Robert Mueller.

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But the lawsuit she filed this week, seeking to break a 2016 agreement to keep silent in return for a $ 130,000 payout, opens what could be a precarious new legal front for a White House already beset by the investigation by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

Conservative House allies of President Trump have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the ongoing special counsel probe, setting up a possible GOP showdown over the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The White House and some of Trump's conservative supporters in Congress have urged the appointment of a second special counsel to conduct a criminal investigation into how senior FBI and Justice Department personnel handled matters related to Clinton.»

Last Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller's team indicted 13 Russian citizens and three Russian companies, accusing them of conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election and help Donald Trump win the White House.

Today, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified before the House Judiciary Committee and faced tough questions from both sides about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia's attack on our 2016 election.

President Donald Trump's growing desire for his lawyers to more forcefully counter the ongoing special counsel investigation drove yet another shake - up of his legal team on Wednesday, putting the White House on a war footing with federal prosecutors...

Democrats have said this isn't the full scope of the available intelligence, and that House Republicans have adapted the evidence to fit their own ends — namely, to undercut the legitimacy of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible Trump - Russia collusion in the 2016 elections.

The special counsel has asked about the role of the adviser, George Nader, in White House policymaking, indicating that he is examining Emirati influence on the Trump administration.

Chairman Nunes» decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes.

«Chairman Nunes» decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes,» the committee's Democrats said in a statement.

Giuliani, who is bonded with the president by a particular brand of New York bravado, has escalated Trump's attacks on the Department of Justice, pushed for strict limits on special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe and upended White House legal strategy.

President Bill Clinton, meanwhile, testified to a grand jury via video from the White House during special counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation into Clinton's investment in an unsuccessful land deal in Arkansas that expanded to include his extramarital relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Lawrence gets reaction from House Intel Committee member Rep. Eric Swalwell and former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine - Banks to the reported list of 40 + questions special counsel Robert Mueller has for Donald Trump.

The mother, initially hostile and angry in court, agreed to undergo individual and family counseling, provide the boy his own private space in the house, including a bedroom and bed, and cooperate with a court - appointed special advocate.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said he would be «surprised» if Trump fired Robert Mueller and encouraged him to allow the special counsel to «do his job independently.»

Despite the president's tweet storm, a top White House lawyer says the president is not considering firing the special counsel, Robert Mueller.

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President Donald Trump reportedly is in discussions with a veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during the impeachment process about joining the White House to help deal with the special counsel inquiry.

Kellyanne Conway, a top strategist for Trump, violated federal law when she used her White House position to weigh in on political races — and the Office of Special Counsel recommended she be disciplined.

The lawsuit filed this week against the president by the porn star Stormy Daniels, seeking to break a 2016 agreement to keep silent about her affair with Trump in return for a $ 130,000 payout, ge & module = Ribbon & version = origin & region = Header & action = click & contentCollection = Home % 20Page & pgtype = article» > opens what could be a precarious new legal front for a White House already beset by the investigation by the special counsel Robert Mueller.

In a sign that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election will remain a continuing distraction for the White House, the special counsel, Robert Mueller, is in talks with the West Wing about interviewing current and former senior administration officials, including the recently ousted White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus.

Another conservative House lawmaker — Rep. Trent Franks of Arkansas — is calling for special counsel Robert Mueller to resign, arguing that he has a conflict of interest that should disqualify him from running the Department of Justice's probe of potential connections between Trump's surrogates and the Kremlin.

Former Bush White House ethics lawyer, Richard Painter, on why he stands by the special counsel's investigation into Russia collusion.

Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and an associate are under house arrest on charges including conspiracy to launder money, linked to the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into allegations that the campaign colluded with Russia.

Former White House spokesman Sean Spicer was grilled for hours Monday by the special counsel investigating possible Russian interference in the election.

The White House scolded the media on Tuesday for being «obsessed» with Robert Mueller's Russia investigation — a day after the special counsel brought criminal charges against three former aides to President Trump.