Steve Bannon, who served as President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller over multiple days this week, NBC News has learned from two sources familiar with the proceedings. Bannon spent a total of some 20 hours in conversations with the team led by Mueller, who is investigating possible collusion between […]
Bannon Limits Answers to House…
FBI Surveillance of Carter Page Might Have Picked up Bannon…
The FBI was monitoring Carter Page when the former Trump campaign adviser says he spoke with Trump adviser Steve Bannon about Russia in January 2017, raising the strong possibility that the FBI intercepted a conversation between the two men. Page told Congress in November about the call. But it has been cast into a new […]
DOJ Fuels Doubts About Integrity of Mueller Probe…
Amid a rising drumbeat of Republican criticism of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, members of Congress and former prosecutors say the Justice Department has amped up the pressure by quietly putting out information bolstering claims that the investigation is unfairly biased against President Donald Trump. Through a series of small and sometimes subtle moves, […]
Trump Aides Averted More Detailed Letter Justifying Comey Firing…
A draft letter from President Donald Trump justifying the firing of FBI Director James Comey and now reported to be in the hands of Special Counsel Robert Mueller was substantially watered down before Trump dismissed Comey in May, according to people familiar with the events. The decision to fire Comey was…