22 July, 2017
The Post cited anonymous USA officials who described US intelligence intercepts of Ambassador Sergey Kislyak's descriptions of his meetings with Sessions, who was then a foreign policy adviser to Trump and now serves as attorney general.
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As Special Counsel Robert Mueller probes into Russian Federation, could President Trump pardon his team, his children or himself?
Eisen also took issue with reports that Trump's team is now trying to direct scrutiny against Mueller's investigative team in order to prove they are in conflict of interests.
In an interview with the New York Times on Wednesday, Trump said that Mueller would be crossing a "red line" if he looked into his personal finances. Trump assumed that by making the future Attorney General part of the Russian Federation conspiracy, he had created a firewall within the DOJ that would kill the investigations into his campaign.
"I think that the President - the point he's trying to make is that the clear goal of the Russian Federation investigation is to review Russia's meddling in the election and that that should be the focus of the investigation".
Former Southern District of NY U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara was investigating Manafort's real estate dealings before he was sacked by Trump in March, and Mueller has now assumed control of that investigation, one of the sources said.
On Monday, the Senate Intelligence Committee will interview Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who also serves as White House senior advisor, as part of their investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 USA presidential election.
Simpson had been asked to testify alongside Manafort and Trump Jr.at the July 26 hearing.
Breaking a tradition that began with President Jimmy Carter, Trump has repeatedly refused to make his tax returns public after first claiming he could not do so because he was under audit or after promising to release them after an IRS audit was completed.
Republished with permission of The Associated Press.
Manafort previously worked as a consultant to a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine and helped support Yanukovich. The filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act came retroactively, a tacit acknowledgement that he operated in Washington in violation of the federal transparency law.
He had worked for the House committee that probed President Bill Clinton in the 1990s before leaving for the Justice Department under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. That also included issues that were important to Moscow.
