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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.

Tom Wadsworth is a political consultant and campaigns adviser at Fishburn Hedges.

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Also present at the meeting from the campaign's side were then campaign chairman Paul Manafort and adviser Jared Kushner.

All the more so because he was a leading adviser to the Republican nominee's presidential campaign at the time.

Mueller's detailed charges against Russian nationals and companies for election meddling aimed in part at trying to boost Trump's candidacy said they cooperated with «unwitting» campaign staffers and outside advisers.

A report from The New York Times published Thursday night said the counterintelligence inquiry focused on at least three advisers associated with Trump — former campaign manager Paul Manafort, close Trump confidant Roger Stone, and former Trump adviser Carter Page.

Carter Page, the former adviser to President Donald Trump's campaign who is at the center of the memo controversy, boasted about his Russia contacts in a 2013 letter to an academic journal, TIME reported on Saturday.

«The fact that they have been included as part of the transition team just shows how inappropriate their role in bridging the gap between him as a businessman and politician is,» Meredith McGehee, a strategic adviser at the Campaign Legal Center, told the Washington Post.

He sent at least six emails to top Trump advisers during the campaign offering to set up meetings with Russian officials, The Washington Post reported in August.

«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.

Congressional investigators have interviewed ex-Donald Trump aides and advisers including J.D. Gordon, the national security policy representative at last year's GOP convention, about the campaign's push to remove proposed language from the 2016 Republican platform that called for giving weapons to Ukraine.

Michael Pyle, a former economic aide in the Obama administration who works at BlackRock, is an unpaid adviser to the campaign on finance policy.

Much of the questioning focused on Page's trip to Moscow in early July, while he was a Trump campaign adviser — because his description of that trip in emails sent at the time looks very different from his description of it now.

He emailed several different Trump campaign advisers to tell them about these efforts, and at least one campaign official — national co-chair Sam Clovis — appeared to encourage them.

During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia's top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.

George Papadopoulos, an adviser to the Trump campaign, contacted campaign officials at least 11 times from March to June 2016 about a potential meeting.

He met Mark Zuckerberg his freshman year at Harvard, co-founded Facebook and later became a digital adviser to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

John Gibbs, a senior adviser at HUD, spread a conspiracy that Hillary Clinton's campaign manager was involved in a Satanic ritual.

And he's accused of failing to disclose on his city ethics forms gifts totaling tens of thousands of dollars from a campaign adviser, relatives, other individuals and their companies for credit - card expenses, reimbursement to the inaugural committee and tuition for his master's degree at New York University.»

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.

A federal judge in California on Thursday temporarily blocked an effort by the attorney for adult - film star Stormy Daniels to depose President TrumpDonald John TrumpUS ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report McCabe lawyer fires back at Trump: «You need to stop lying» MORE and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, over a $ 130,000 payment from Cohen to the actress before the 2016 presidential election.

«Thank you to former campaign adviser Michael Caputo for saying so powerfully that there was no Russian collusion in our winning campaign,» Trump tweeted at 8:04 a.m.

Strategists nod to her recent appointment of L. Joy Williams, the president of the Brooklyn NAACP and board chair of Higher Heights, as a senior adviser, and Nixon's campaign launch in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a majority black neighborhood that encapsulates many of the flashpoints in the Democratic primary: It's the poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn and among the poorest in New York City, it's at the center of the affordable housing crisis, and residents are prepping for the 15 - month L train shutdown in early 2019, a symptom of New York City's dilapidated subway system that Nixon's branded» #CuomosMTA.»

The New York Times reported separately this past week that at least one government informant met several times with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, both former foreign policy advisers for Trump's Republican campaign.

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.

He went on to be a special adviser to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and worked at 10 Downing Street as well as for Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in the party's unsuccessful 1997 general election campaign, before becoming a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor as party leader, William Hague.

Philippe Reines, an adviser to Hillary Clinton during her tenure in the Senate, at the State Department and during last year's campaign, wrote on Twitter.

And Nixon's pledge to refuse corporate donations doesn't actually mean as much in New York as it does on the federal level, because of New York's lax campaign finance laws, said Alex Camarda, senior policy adviser at Reinvent Albany.

The Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE campaign sent its first «emergency» fundraising email to supporters Saturday, seeking to raise at least $ 100,000 by the end of the day.

[31] Prominent Chrétien adviser Eddie Goldenberg believed that the «No» campaign at some points was more focused on the future election position of the Quebec Liberals rather than the referendum itself.

Clinton's campaign manager at the time recommended that she fire the adviser, Burns Strider, but she did not.

Last month, President Obama spoke at a Murphy fund - raiser in Miami — one of many high - dollar events that Murphy advisers believe will allow them to spend as much as $ 8 million in his primary campaign against Grayson.

He then called out former campaign adviser Hank Sheinkopf, as he poked fun at the way Jewish people dance.

Theresa May's former chief adviser has responded to claims that he screwed up in the general election campaign — by pointing the finger at political strategist Lynton Crosby.

The home secretary has even been touted as a potential leader of the Out campaign, after her special adviser Stephen Parkinson joined Vote Leave at the end of last year.

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Reuters: «U.S. President Donald Trump's son - in - law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, had at least three previously undisclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, seven current and former U.S. officials told Reuters.»

These former advisers didn't have hard evidence that Russian trolls were using Facebook to micro-target voters in swing districts - at least not yet - but they shared their theories with the House and Senate intelligence committees, which launched parallel investigations into Russia's role in the presidential campaign in January.

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

The New York Times reported separately this week that at least one government informant met several times with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, both former foreign policy advisers for Trump's Republican campaign.

Espaillat's primary rival Mark Levine conceded the loss at his Inwood campaign headquarters on Broadway at 215th Street, where he stood with a somber group of volunteers, family, friends and advisers.

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At least nine aides received payments on Aug. 31 well in excess of their typical biweekly salaries, including $ 25,000 each for Matthew Rhoades, the campaign manager; Lanhee Chen, a policy adviser; and Katie Biber, the general counsel.

As Jeremy Corbyn prepares to mount a defence of his legacy in a fresh leadership campaign, his former economic adviser Richard Murphy accused him of turning the Party into a protest movement angry at austerity «with no clue what to do about it».

Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to the president, met at the Midtown headquarters of 1199 SEIU, the health care workers» union, with about 30 other people, including 1199 president George Gresham and members of his union, representatives from 32BJ SEIU, which represents property service workers, and the New York Paid Family Leave Insurance Campaign, said Dolan, who also attended.

«Supported by David Muir, his director of political strategy and chief polling adviser, Brown announced his plan at a meeting on the eve of the election campaign, but was dissuaded by Ed Balls, Lord Mandelson and Douglas Alexander.

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.

«We will not be submitting Andrew Cuomo's name for the nomination» at the WFP convention this weekend, a campaign adviser announced, citing an ongoing US attorney's investigation into allegations that the party helped candidates circumvent campaign - finance law.

ALBANY — A senior adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders Tuesday shot back at Gov. Cuomo's campaign for saying the two political leaders are in «lock step.»

The top investigator at the state's Board of Elections asked prosecutors in January to investigate whether the mayor's advisers broke the law by channeling campaign contributions to Democratic state Senate candidates through a committee not subject to donation limits, so as to evade them.