Lawyer Michael Cohen Grilled on Russia Tower Deal
By MIKE MEMOLI, MARIANNA SOTOMAYOR and KEN DILANIAN
... Sources familiar with Cohen’s interview Tuesday with the House panel said there was an extended focus on emails he received in 2015 from Felix Sater, a former Trump associate with a criminal past, about a potential deal to open a Trump Tower in the Russian capital. Cohen has downplayed those conversations, in which Sater bragged about his access to top Kremlin officials, saying it was about "a real estate deal and nothing more" ...
Both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees will hold public hearings next week to hear testimony from officials from Google, Facebook and Twitter about how foreign actors used their platforms to influence the political discourse and ultimately the election in the U.S.
Republican-led House committees announced separately this week, in tandem, that they would open additional probes into an Obama-era uranium sale to Russia as well as the Justice Department’s handling of the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server ...
"Tragically this looks like Benghazi redux," said Schiff, referring to a special House committee formed to probe the 2011 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya when Clinton served as secretary of state. "There just seems to be no end to the appetite to investigate Hillary Clinton. This is now I think also the second or third investigation prompted by presidential tweet" ...
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