Rudolph W. Giuliani, a new lawyer on President Trump’s team, claimed a broad constitutional immunity for his client from being subpoenaed in a criminal proceeding, a predictable claim but one unsupported by any Supreme Court decision. He cited the “Founding ...

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WASHINGTON – Rudolph Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s new personal lawyer dealing with the ongoing probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, met with special counsel Robert Mueller III on Tuesday to reopen negotiations for a presidential interview, according to ...

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WASHINGTON – The FBI seizure of records from President Donald Trump’s personal attorney last week deeply rattled the president – souring him on his long-stated preference to sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller III and prompting ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents who raided the office of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, were looking for information about payments to a former Playboy playmate and a porn actress who claim to have had affairs with Trump, ...

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at prosecutors for the FBI raids of his longtime personal attorney’s Manhattan office, home and hotel room, claiming that it signals an end of attorney-client privilege. “Attorney-client privilege is dead!” the president ...

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WASHINGTON – Dana Boente, the former acting attorney general who now serves as general counsel at the FBI, has been interviewed by the special counsel’s office and turned over handwritten notes that could be a piece of evidence in the ...

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  A federal judge expressed deep skepticism that Paul Manafort could use a civil lawsuit to attack Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s authority to charge Manafort with crimes unrelated to his role as President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman. The judge’s ...

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WASHINGTON – Special Counsel Robert Mueller III informed President Donald Trump’s attorneys last month that he is continuing to investigate the president but does not consider him a criminal target at this point, according to three people familiar with the ...

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump kept up his attack on the escalating Russia investigation, insisting in a new tweet Monday that it was “a total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest!” The comment came a day after a top ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Trump campaign aide spent much of the day promising to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller, even throwing down the challenge to “arrest me,” then backed off his defiance by saying he would ...

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Refusing to comply with a subpoena from the Russia probe’s special counsel Robert S. Mueller III – as former Trump aide Sam Nunberg has vowed to do – could have real consequences. Susan McDougal, a former business partner of President ...

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Top Republicans may end up shielding the president’s son and son-in-law from facing tough questions on-camera from Democrats eager to press them over their contacts with Russians during the 2016 campaign. Democrats on two Senate panels are demanding to hold ...

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