Part 196, some of Russian meddling, and related, material from F6 big ones. These from a post Monday, 04/30/18, covering March 29, 2018, and headed, As North Korea Talks with China, South Korea & Japan, Could Bolton Derail Denuclearization Progress? https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=140431251
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Photos capture the emotional moment Hope Hicks and Trump said goodbye on her last day at the White House Hope Hicks appeared to say an emotional goodbye to President Donald Trump on Thursday, her last day at the White House. Hicks was one of Trump's longest-serving and most trusted advisers. She announced late in February she was resigning from her position as White House communications director. http://www.businessinsider.com/hope-hicks-says-goodbye-to-trump-white-house-photos-2018-3
Judge denies Stormy Daniels request to depose President Trump, lawyer vows to refile motion A judge denied a request by a lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels to depose President Donald Trump. Daniels is seeking to void an agreement that required her to keep silent about an alleged affair she had with Trump in 2006. Michael Avenatti, a lawyer for the actress, said he would refile the motion seeking the president's deposition soon. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/judge-denies-stormy-daniels-request-to-depose-president-trump.html
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Mueller probing Russia contacts at Republican convention: sources WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators probing whether Donald Trump’s presidential campaign colluded with Russia have been questioning witnesses about events at the 2016 Republican National Convention, according to two sources familiar with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiries. Mueller’s team has been asking about a convention-related event attended by both Russia’s U.S. ambassador and Jeff Sessions, the first U.S. senator to support Trump and now his attorney general, said one source, who requested anonymity due to the ongoing investigation. Another issue Mueller’s team has been asking about is how and why Republican Party platform language hostile to Russia was deleted from a section of the document related to Ukraine, said another source who also requested anonymity. Mueller’s interest in what happened at the Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio in July 2016, is an indication that Trump campaign contacts and actions related to Russia remain central to the special counsel’s investigation. Trump, who was nominated as the Republican Party candidate for the November 2016 election during the convention, has denied any collusion with Russia during the campaign. Moscow has denied U.S. intelligence agencies’ findings that it interfered in the campaign to try to tilt the election in Trump’s favor. Investigators have asked detailed questions about conversations that Sessions, then a Trump campaign adviser, had at a convention event attended by then-Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak, said the first source, who was questioned by Mueller about the event. The same source said Mueller’s team also has been asking whether Sessions had private discussions with Kislyak on the sidelines of a campaign speech Trump gave at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel in April 2016. Sessions’ spokespersons have denied repeatedly that he had any private discussions with Kislyak at the Mayflower. Sessions told lawmakers last year he could not recall any conversations with Russian officials at the hotel but could not rule out that a “brief interaction” with Kislyak may have occurred there. Spokespersons for Mueller and Sessions declined to comment on Mueller’s interest in Sessions’ activities at the convention and other convention-related events. UKRAINE LANGUAGE The special counsel’s investigators have also interviewed attendees of the committee meetings that drafted the Republican Party platform in Cleveland. At one committee meeting, according to people in attendance, Diana Denman, a member of the platform committee’s national security subcommittee, proposed language calling for the United States to supply “lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine’s armed forces and greater coordination with NATO on defense planning.” But the final platform language deleted the reference to “lethal defensive weapons,” a change that made the platform less hostile to Russia, whose troops had invaded the Crimean peninsula and eastern Ukraine. After the convention, Denman told Reuters in 2016, J.D. Gordon, a Trump foreign policy adviser, told her he was going to speak to Trump about the language on Ukraine, and that Trump’s campaign team played a direct role in softening the platform language. The Trump campaign has denied playing any role in the weakening of the party’s position regarding Ukraine. Gordon has called Denman’s version of events “inaccurate.” Stephen Yates, co-chair of the platform committee’s national security subcommittee, said he has “heard nothing about other members of the subcommittee being called in for questioning, and I have had no interaction with anyone working on the investigation.” Sessions recused himself last year from the federal probe into Russian election meddling after it emerged that he had failed to say during his Senate confirmation hearing to be attorney general that he had met with Russia’s ambassador in 2016. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-convention/mueller-probing-russia-contacts-at-republican-convention-sources-idUSKBN1H52VT
Source: Mueller pushed for Gates' help on collusion (CNN) - Special counsel Robert Mueller's team last year made clear it wanted former Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates' help, not so much against his former business partner Paul Manafort, but with its central mission: investigating the Trump campaign's contact with the Russians. New information disclosed in court filings and to CNN this week begin to show how they're getting it. In a court filing earlier this week, the public saw the first signs of how the Mueller team plans to use information from Gates to tie Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, directly to a Russian intelligence agency. Mueller's team alleges that Gates was in contact with a close colleague of Manafort's who worked for a Russian intelligence agency -- and that Gates knew of the spy service ties in September and October 2016, while he worked on the Trump campaign. Gates would have to talk about the communication with the man if prosecutors wanted, according to his plea deal. That's in line with what prosecutors told Gates months ago during high-stakes negotiations, CNN has learned. They told him they didn't need his cooperation against Manafort, according to a person familiar with the investigation, and instead wanted to hear what he knew about contact between the Trump campaign and Russians. The extent of Gates' knowledge about any such contact or what he told prosecutors hasn't been made public. As part of Gates' agreement to cooperate with the special counsel a month ago, he earned a vastly reduced potential sentence and had several charges dropped in two criminal cases against him. [...] https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/29/politics/mueller-gates-russia-investigation-contacts/index.html
Mueller signals he is going after bigger fish as he drills down on the central thread of the Russia investigation The special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly didn't need former Trump campaign deputy chairman Rick Gates' cooperation against former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Instead, Mueller wants to know what Gates knew about the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia during the 2016 US election. Gates was a key player during pivotal moments in the campaign, and his vastly reduced plea deal indicates he has information of significant value for Mueller. http://www.businessinsider.com/mueller-gates-trump-campaign-russia-collusion-contacts-2018-3
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