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— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 14, 2017
Intercepted calls show Trump campaign members had repeated contact with Russian intelligence before the election https://t.co/601WwxujBu
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 15, 2017
… The call logs and intercepted communications are part of a larger trove of information that the F.B.I. is sifting through as it investigates the links between Mr. Trump’s associates and the Russian government, as well as the hacking of the D.N.C., according to federal law enforcement officials. As part of its inquiry, the F.B.I. has obtained banking and travel records and conducted interviews, the officials said….
The intercepted calls are different from the wiretapped conversations last year between Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, and Sergey I. Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the United States. In those calls, which led to Mr. Flynn’s resignation on Monday night, the two men discussed sanctions that the Obama administration imposed on Russia in December…
Timothy Naftali, former director of Nixon Library, comparing this to Nixon sabotaging 1968 Vietnam peace initiative on CNN.
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) February 15, 2017
The F.B.I. does not believe Flynn was entirely forthcoming when he spoke to agents about the call https://t.co/CQ2pcfoAnL
— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) February 14, 2017
… Given his short stay at the top, Mr. Flynn’s case might be quickly forgotten as an isolated episode if it did not raise other questions, particularly about what the president knew and when. Even more broadly, it underscores lingering uncertainty about the relationship between the Trump administration and Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia, a subject of great interest given American intelligence reports of Moscow’s intervention in last year’s elections in the United States.
As leaders of both parties said on Tuesday that they expected the Senate to investigate and probably even summon Mr. Flynn to testify, more details emerged about a drama that played out largely in secret inside a White House riven by competing power centers. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, revealed that Mr. Trump had known about concerns that Mr. Flynn lied for more than two weeks before demanding his resignation on Monday night. But Vice President Mike Pence was kept in the dark and did not learn that Mr. Flynn had misled him about his Russia contacts until reading news accounts late last week…
Wait, Pence found out Flynn lied to him about the Russian ambassador calls *by reading it in the paper*??? https://t.co/mnJusC2LKr
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) February 15, 2017
I have to wonder how much anger there is in the Pence camp right now. https://t.co/7nlJMpCOEh pic.twitter.com/MkgY65d78q
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) February 15, 2017
at end of WaPo tick-tock comes detail that Pence was willing to let Flynn skate, Priebus “didn’t want to let it go" https://t.co/Geyo0UqoT7
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) February 15, 2017
(Somewhere in Hell, dead Spiro Agnew weeps at the GOP’s reduction to the likes of ‘Mike Dense’.)
Here's what's bothering me:
Flynn's lie about Russia didn't bring him down. Exposure of lie did. WH knew weeks ago & did nothing. Why?— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) February 14, 2017
“The mountain has labored, and brought forth a mouse. But did it have to be a wall-eyed mouse in a clown suit?”
Shout out to everybody saying they didn't want to deal with the endless drama of having the Clintons back in the White House
— Kevin Feeney (@KevinMFeeney) February 14, 2017