Sentences with phrase «campaign adviser»

«Any step in running the campaign, which included assistance from volunteers, setting up a committee, was done in reliance on campaign advisers and counsel,» said a campaign spokesman.

Their letter came on the heels of a controversial memo the House Intelligence Committee released earlier this month, which purports to show the FBI and Department of Justice abusing their surveillance authority to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

New York prosecutors have demanded records relating to up to $ 16 million in loans that a bank run by a former campaign adviser for Trump made to former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Trump then went after Rosenstein for his role in signing off on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Investigators also revealed Monday that former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos had pleaded guilty to lying to federal officials and had been cooperating with Mueller's investigation.

«They aren't going to bully him into backing down,» said Stephen Moore, a former Trump campaign adviser who is now a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

Last November one of his senior campaign advisers said Trump was likely to eliminate all climate change research conducted by NASA as part of a crackdown on «politicised science».

The answer is 100 precent yes,» de Blasio senior campaign adviser Phil Walzak said.

Game Change also stars Ed Harris as Sen. John McCain, Ron Livingston as campaign adviser Mark Wallace, and Woody Harrelson as senior adviser Steve Schmidt.

His speech will be delivered in Ames, Iowa, and is aimed at «reinforcing the big choice in November,» a top campaign adviser told CNN.

Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo, now a spokesman to Grimm, tweeted a photo of Grimm with the head of Breitbart News.

Several longtime New York campaign advisers told DNAinfo New York that candidates generally prefer that political advisers or potential high - level administration officials do not host fundraisers in order to avoid creating conflicts of interests for themselves and their future administrations.

(CNN)- A senior Obama campaign adviser said Mitt Romney has a leg up on President Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential debates.

«The WFP situation could now replicate a new «IDC» dynamic, dividing democrats to the benefit of Republicans, and a fight between labor unions representing the interests of working people and a 3rd party ballot line is not something we are interested in engaging,» said Cuomo campaign adviser Sarah Paden.

(CNN) Michael Caputo, a former top Trump campaign adviser with strong ties to Russia, told CNN in an exclusive interview that he «never once» discussed nor heard anyone else mention Russian involvement in the race to defeat Hillary Clinton.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into claims made by Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone that he met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Within 24 hours of his election, the Illinois Democrat assigned a team of campaign advisers and staff members the task of hiring political hands and policy experts to lead the incoming administration's efforts and to develop a plan to turn campaign ideas into reality.

Former Trump campaign adviser J.D. Gordon appeared on Capitol Hill today for an interview with the House Intelligence Committee investigating Russian election interference.

In an extraordinary broadside, senior Cuomo campaign adviser Sarah Paden on Monday told The Post that the governor «doesn't know why the prosecutors gave the mayor a pass on his bribery,» referring to uncharged allegations by crooked restaurateur Harendra Singh.

There have also been suggestions that the FBI investigation was triggered by campaign adviser Carter Page's trip to Russia that July.

Sessions testified during a marathon appearance before the House Judiciary Committee that he recalls a meeting with a Trump campaign adviser at which the adviser spoke about contacts with Russians, after testifying earlier this year he knew of no such contacts.

Internal emails also show campaign adviser George Papadopoulos repeatedly sought to organize meetings with campaign officials, including Trump, and Putin or other Russians.

Washington (CNN) The lawyers for former Trump campaign adviser Rick Gates showed a hint as to why they'd like to quit his case Wednesday: They don't agree with Gates.

On one side was former Romney campaign adviser Carlos Gutierrez, who pushed for a move to the center by saying the election results were the consequence of the «far - right wing of the Republican Party.»

Former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed he was the unnamed American consultant targeted for recruitment by Russian intelligence officers operating under diplomatic cover in a high - profile 2015 New York spy case.

In a tweet, de Blasio's 2011 campaign adviser Bill Hyers knocked Cuomo's statement at the news conference, saying the governor should «concentrate» on his own issues, such as the Hoosick Falls water contamination.

Here is the brief statement released by campaign adviser Phil Singer.

«With only one volunteer present and another supporter fleeing the scene, it looks like Senator Espaillat's «major rally» in East Harlem was about as disastrous as his legislative record,» said Rangel campaign adviser Charlie King.

«It's laughable that Andrew Cuomo, who received thirty - four percent of the vote in the 27th District, and Nancy Pelosi, who has presided over one of the biggest Democrat losing streaks in history, would come together to attack Chris Collins and other New York House Republicans,» said Collins campaign adviser Chris Grant.

«For politicians like Kathy Hochul — who have never created a job anywhere and have been in the hip pocket of Barack Obama — lies and distortions are the only weapon they have left,» Collins campaign adviser Chris Grant said in a statement.

«While the Congressman is not taking anything for granted, this poll demonstrates that voters agree that we can't afford to lose the experience, record and seniority Congressman Rangel brings to the table,» said campaign adviser Hank Sheinkopf.

Monserrate campaign adviser Mike Nieves said the campaign «forgot» to report all its expenses and is now updating its filing.

The next day, Papadopoulos wrote in an email to campaign adviser Stephen Miller — who now serves as a senior policy adviser in the White House — that there were «interesting messages coming in from Moscow» but did not elaborate on what he had learned.

During a segment on women's evolving roles in the workplace on Meet the Press Sunday morning, GOP political operative and former McCain campaign adviser Steve Schmidt made a compelling case for equal opportunity in American businesses and the country at large, asserting that organizations that do not afford women a place at the table are on the wrong side of history and will, eventually, lose out.

A former Facebook employee and Clinton campaign adviser on how advertising tech and disinformation campaigns are a perfect fit.

One witness interviewed by Mueller's team told NBC News that investigators asked about what Stone's interactions with Trump were like once he ended his tenure as a Trump campaign adviser in August 2015.

The DOJ informed the FISA court that the Russia investigation was opened after the FBI learned of an interaction during which a Trump campaign adviser boasted that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton.

In 1996, he acted as a backroom campaign adviser to Campbell, then in 2001 he co-chaired the campaign that handed the Liberals a 77 - 2 victory over Ujjal Dosanjh's NDP.

Key foreign policy campaign adviser Michael Mandelbaum refused to join the Administration in part because he realized that Clinton indeed would not support a major Western assistance effort to Russia.

Michael Caputo, a former campaign adviser whom Trump praised Monday morning on Twitter for his appearance on Fox News Channel's «Fox & Friends,» later called the indictments «one big, huge fail.»

And, with rising irritation, he watched live footage of his onetime campaign adviser and confidant, Paul Manafort, turning himself in to the FBI.

Trump's son - in - law and campaign adviser Jared Kushner reportedly met with a media dealmaker regarding the possibility of creating a television network after the November election.

The former Trump campaign adviser testified for more than six hours on the Russia scandal.

Trump's lawyer, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said there was nothing illegal about Trump campaign advisers meeting with a Russian lawyer purportedly offering dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

On 15 May, a week before the vote, Miliband met with David Axelrod — Barack Obama's chief campaign adviser, who had signed on as a consultant to the Labour campaign for an astronomical fee — at Corrigan's, an upscale Mayfair restaurant.

«This is a high - needs district and, with our thousands of supporters, we are going to help John Sampson utter his second on - the - record word this year in Albany: «Goodbye,»» said Smitherman campaign adviser Nathan Smith.

UPDATED: Senior campaign adviser Bay Buchanan said last week that the candidate supports states» choices.

Prosecutors requested $ 500,000 bail while Haggerty's lawyers asked that no bail be set, arguing that the Republican campaign adviser had shown up at every court appearance and should not be considered a flight risk.