Sentences with phrase «russia during his administration»

«Russia does not share America's interests,» Ryan said in a statement that appeared to put him at odds with Trump, who has expressed a desire to work more closely with Russia during his administration.

Not exact matches

The Obama administration, in particular, has come under fire recently for what some lawmakers say was an inadequate response to Russia's election interference efforts during the 2016 presidential race.

But his decision to do so while facing increasing scrutiny — the deepening FBI probe regarding his administration's contact with Russia and damning new Senate testimony from former acting attorney general Sally Yates about Trump's now - fired national security adviser Michael Flynn — instantly recalls Richard Nixon's infamous «Saturday Night Massacre» in which the 37th president purged the Justice Department during the Watergate investigation.

He testified to the committee that he met with members of Russia's presidential administration and Igor Sechin, one of the heads of Russian state - owned oil company Rosneft during the trip.

Flynn had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other administration officials about what he and Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the US, talked about in phone conversations during the transition — according to reports, they had discussed the Obama administration's sanctions against Russia.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies this month that it was «time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: a non-state, hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors, like Russia,» and he criticized prior administrations as having been «squeamish» about going after publishers of state secrets.

Trump has hired Joseph diGenova, a former U.S. attorney who was appointed independent counsel during the George H.W. Bush administration, to help represent him in the special counsel's Russia investigation.

«Russian bots and internet trolls sought to propagate stories underground,» Mike Carpenter, a former senior Pentagon official during the Obama administration whose job focused on Russia told McClatchy.

The Trump administration says Sessions was acting as a then - U.S. senator when he talked to Russia's ambassador at an event during last year's RNC in Cleveland, but he paid for convention travel expenses out of his own political funds and he spoke about the Trump campaign at the event.