When President Donald Trump hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office on Wednesday just hours after firing the FBl director who was overseeing an investigation into whether Trump's team colluded the Russians, he was breaking with recent precedent at the specific request of Russian President Vladimir Putin The chummy White House visit-photos of the president yukking it up with Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak were released by the Russian Foreign Ministry since no U.S. press was allowed to cover the visit-had been one of Putin's asks in his recent phone call with Trump, and indeed the White House acknowledged this to me later Wednesday. "He chose to receive him because Putin asked him to," a White House spokesman said of Trump's Lavrov meeting. "Putin did specifically ask on the call when they last talked." The meeting was Lavrov's first in the White House since 2013-and came after several years of the Obama administration's flat-out refusal to grant him an Oval Office audience, two former senior White House officials told me. "The Russians were begging us for years to do that," one of the former officials said. "They were constantly pushing for it and we were constantly saying no." 93

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Dr Shaym 18 hours ago You are showing flat Earther levels of denial if you believe there's even the slimmest possibility that Trump will still be convicted of collusion with Russia after today. We're looking at 2,800 subpoenas, nearly 500 search warrants, more than 230 orders for communication records, almost 50 orders authorizing use of pen registers, 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence, and interviews with 500 witnesses over the course of 22 months. The 9/11 attacks weren't investigated this thoroughly. It's over. Trump is drinking your milkshake.

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Senate Intel Committee expands investigation

Members of the Senate intelligence committee have started to hint that their own investigation is entering a new avenuee leading to Trump's financial relationships It wouldn't be the first time federal authorities have probed Trump's financial space: The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network imposed a $10-million civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort for what it called, "significant and long-standing ant money laundering violations." A Russian money-laundering ring operated inside New York's Trump Tower. Dozens pleaded guilty in 2013 over the scheme Gambling profits had been run through a financially struggling plumbing company. The two main actors worked from their apartments in Trump's building. Trump was not linked to that. Trump did do business with another Russian previously convicted of money-laundering. Trump walked out on a BBC interviewer in 2013 when asked about Felix Sater, whose Bayrock Group invested in three Trump properties, and who on other occasions reportedly presented himself as an employee of the Trump organization Both Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his former national security adviser Michael Flynn have been the subject of investigations related to allegedly improperly reported income from Russia. Now the Senate is asking for more information about Trump's finances lts Russia investigators on the intelligence committee are asking the U.S. Treasury Department's criminal investigation division for any information relevant to the president, his top aides and campaign officials A Republican member of that committee, Lindsey Graham, has said he wants to know more about Trump's business dealings The president has vet to release his taxes, which is the normm

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Dangers of the hollow man

Which brings us to the reports that Trump betrayed an intelligence source and leaked secrets to his Russian visitors. From all we know so far, Trump didn't do it because he is a Russian agent, or for any malevolent intent. He did it because he is sloppy, because he lacks all impulse control, and above all because he is a 7- year-old boy desperate for the approval of those he admires he Russian leak story reveals one other thing, the dangerousness of a hollow man Our institutions depend on people who have enough engraved character traits to fulfill their assigned duties. But there is perpetually less to Trump than it appears. When we analyze a president's utterances we tend to assume that there is some substantive process behind the words, that it's part of some strategic intent

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Sunday: Golf

Monday: Learned that Obama warned Trump about Flynn Tuesday: Trump fires Comey "on recommendation" of Rosenstein Wednesday: Trump meets with Lavrov, Kislyek. TASS photog allowed into Oval Office. Thursday: Trump says he was going to fire Comey no matter what, did it thinking about Russia investigation Friday: Trump suggests he has "tapes" of Comey Saturday: Potential FBI candidates paraded in front of cameras Sunday: Golf Monday: Trump, it turns out, shared highly classified intel with Russians.

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President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said that Trump's disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State. The information Trump relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said. The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said that Trump's decision to do so risks cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump's meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and National Security Agency.

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ion officials. "Trump "It is all kind of shocking," said a former senior U.S. official close to current seems to be very reckless, and doesn't grasp the gravity of the things he's dealing with, especially when it comes to intelligence and national security. And it's all clouded because of this problem he has with Russia." In his meeting with Lavrov, Trump seemed to be boasting about his inside knowledge of the looming threat. I get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day,"Trump said, according to an official with knowledge of the exchange. Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United States only learned through the espionage capabilities of a key partner. He did not reveal the specific intelligence gathering method, but described how the Islamic State was pursuing elements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could cause under varying circumstances. Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State's territory where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat.

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Classified Data

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...to terrorism and airline flight safety. Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism.

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When President Donald Trump hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office on Wednesday just hours after firing the FBl director who was overseeing an investigation into whether Trump's team colluded the Russians, he was breaking with recent precedent at the specific request of Russian President Vladimir Putin The chummy White House visit-photos of the president yukking it up with Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak were released by the Russian Foreign Ministry since no U.S. press was allowed to cover the visit-had been one of Putin's asks in his recent phone call with Trump, and indeed the White House acknowledged this to me later Wednesday. "He chose to receive him because Putin asked him to," a White House spokesman said of Trump's Lavrov meeting. "Putin did specifically ask on the call when they last talked." The meeting was Lavrov's first in the White House since 2013-and came after several years of the Obama administration's flat-out refusal to grant him an Oval Office audience, two former senior White House officials told me. "The Russians were begging us for years to do that," one of the former officials said. "They were constantly pushing for it and we were constantly saying no." 93

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