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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.

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Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

By that time, multiple senior members of the campaign had been in contact with high - ranking Russians, including incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn, incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and senior adviser Jared Kushner.

It has reportedly expanded to include the President's son - in - law Jared Kushner, who serves as a senior adviser to Trump, as well as his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Jim Messina, President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign manager and an adviser to David Cameron's EU referendum campaign, wrote in 2015 that Jagger was «one of the savviest political observers.»

Sessions told Jackson Lee he had been instructed by Justice Department ethics advisers to remain uninvolved in the Senate campaign, and he said the department «will evaluate every case as to whether or not it should be investigated.»

The New York Times reported Dec. 30 that the investigation began after a Trump campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, revealed to an Australian diplomat in London that Russia had political dirt on Democrat Hillary Clinton.

After a «gut check» conversation with Moore and subsequent talks with policy advisers Jake Sullivan and Maya Harris, Schwerin says in the email that the campaign hierarchy is «mostly persuaded» by Moore's concerns.

Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign adviser, is expected to plead guilty on Friday in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to a letter obtained by ABC News.

Mueller's team announced charges in October against three other Trump campaign officials, former chairman Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates, and a former campaign foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos.

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.

In recent days, New York mayor Bill de Blasio, who served as an adviser during Clinton's successful Senate bid in 2000, suggested she focus on income inequality on the campaign traiIn recent days, New York mayor Bill de Blasio, who served as an adviser during Clinton's successful Senate bid in 2000, suggested she focus on income inequality on the campaign traiin 2000, suggested she focus on income inequality on the campaign trail.

The memo, which suggests that FBI and DOJ officials misled a judge in seeking a warrant to extend secret surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, has sparked widespread controversy.

In addition to working as an intermediary between the campaign and the Republican National Committee in 2016, Gates frequently traveled with Trump and later served as an adviser on the inaugural committee after Trump's election in NovembeIn addition to working as an intermediary between the campaign and the Republican National Committee in 2016, Gates frequently traveled with Trump and later served as an adviser on the inaugural committee after Trump's election in Novembein 2016, Gates frequently traveled with Trump and later served as an adviser on the inaugural committee after Trump's election in Novembein November.

An early conflict - of - interest concern involved his law firm's representation of some of the people caught up in the investigation, including Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, and Jared Kushner, the president's son - in - law and senior adviser.

Trump did so again last month after the House Intelligence Committee released a controversial Republican memo purporting to show surveillance abuses by the FBI and the Department of Justice in seeking to monitor an adviser to the Trump campaign.

Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in December to lying to federal agents and is providing cooperation to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and whether the Trump campaign was involved.

That regulation states, in effect, that department employees should not participate in investigations of a campaign if they have served as a campaign adviser.

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said late Thursday.

While lawyers and advisers say it's common to hire investigators to do opposition research in the context of a proxy campaign, executives» kids — of any age — are typically considered off - limits.

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.

The Office of the Special Counsel also revealed Monday that George Papadopoulos, formerly a foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his contact with a Russian professor.

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.

The letter ended with a request for «all documents and communications referring or relating» to Flynn's contacts with foreign persons during the presidential campaign, the transition period, and his tenure as national security adviser, and after he resigned in February.

After one of those briefings, Senate minority leader Harry Reid wrote FBI Director James Comey, citing reports of meetings between a Trump adviser (a reference to Page) and «high ranking sanctioned individuals» in Moscow over the summer as evidence of «significant and disturbing ties» between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin that needed to be investigated by the bureau.

Mr. Kushner, 35, the husband of Mr. Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka, and an influential adviser to his father - in - law during the presidential campaign, had been planning to return to his private businesses after Election Day.

«Barack Obama believes in options: «Maintain my options,» «said Jeh C. Johnson, a campaign adviser and now general counsel of the Defense Department.

... The expert said that based on his conversations with Mr. Smith, he understood the elder Mr. Flynn to be coordinating with Mr. Smith's group in his capacity as a Trump campaign adviser.

We still don't know (but presumably Mueller does) why Mike Flynn, Trump's chief foreign policy adviser during the campaign and his short - lived national security adviser, was talking during the transition to the Russian ambassador about lifting sanctions Obama had imposed in retaliation against Russia's meddling in the election.

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 NDIn 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 NDin 2001 he co-chaired the campaign that handed the Liberals a 77 - 2 victory over Ujjal Dosanjh's NDP.

In June 2015, Trump began his ultimately successful run for president, and Cohen, still working for the Trump Organization, became a legal adviser to the campaign as well.

In late March, the campaign paid $ 22,000 to John McEntee, who joined as senior adviser for campaign operations after he was forced out of his position as Trump's personal assistant earlier in the montIn late March, the campaign paid $ 22,000 to John McEntee, who joined as senior adviser for campaign operations after he was forced out of his position as Trump's personal assistant earlier in the montin the month.

The searches open a new front for the Justice Department in its scrutiny of Mr. Trump and his associates: His longtime lawyer is being investigated in Manhattan; his son - in - law, Jared Kushner, is facing scrutiny by prosecutors in Brooklyn; his former campaign chairman is under indictment; his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying; and a pair of former campaign aides are cooperating with Mr. Mueller.

The complaint also accuses the Tillis campaign and the state GOP of receiving illegal contributions from a super PAC led by John Bolton — now Trump's national security adviser — that also used Cambridge Analytica in pro-Tillis campaign activity.

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.

But Mueller has charged three people who were in the Trump campaign inner circle — former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former deputy campaign chairman Richard Gates — all with ties to Russia and all of whom might be expected to be part of a collusion scheme, had one existed.

Mueller's office has obtained a wealth of subpoenaed documents about the president's conduct and has taken secret testimony from cooperating witnesses — Michael Flynn, former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and former campaign aide Rick Gates — any one of whom would be in a position to contradict Trump and expose him to perjury charges.

Megachurch pastor Paula White, one of Trump's key evangelical advisers during the presidential campaign and in his administration, cheered the new initiative.

Politico: «Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, said Tuesday night his «memory has been refreshed» regarding his email exchange with Carter Page in which the former foreign policy adviser requested Lewandowski's permission to travel to Moscow.

One of the architects of that Kansas plan, Stephen Moore, who was an economic adviser to Trump's presidential campaign, said the tax change would create «near immediate» growth in Kansas.

But this week, Facebook said it would bring in advisers to investigate whether it suppresses conservative voices, the latest in a post-Cambridge Analytica goodwill campaign to rebuild trust with its 2.2 billion users.

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

Flynn, who was Trump's national security adviser for 24 days and was also a top campaign adviser, has admitted to lying to the FBI about two of his conversations with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016.

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.

His withdrawal is a casualty of this week's major developments in the Mueller probe — most notably, the revelation that George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign whom Clovis supervised as national co-chair, had recently pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Russians.

Michael T. Flynn, a Trump campaign adviser who went on to be his national security adviser, was paid more than $ 65,000 by companies linked to Russia in 2015, including an American branch of a cybersecurity firm believed to have connections to Russia's intelligence services, according to congressional investigators.

According to the New York Times, the memo says that shortly after being sworn in as deputy attorney general last spring, Rosenstein re-approved an existing wiretap on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

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.

1) George Papadopoulos, former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, pleaded guilty in October to making false statements to the FBI.