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We get to the facts. We find the truth. Unflinching, unrelenting, uncut. This is CNN.
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Here we go. Mayor of Uvalde tonight at a city council meeting:   “ I'm gonna be throwing people under the bus tonight in a speech because for too long, we've been told we can't talk,  we can't answer, and we can't say anything. Today that's over with,” he said.
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Vice President Pence has not ruled out an effort to invoke the 25th amendment and wants to preserve it as an option in case Trump becomes more unstable, a source close to the VP says. @Acosta
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Head of National Guard testifying during summer protests he didn’t need approval from higher ups to deploy guard troops, but that changed in the days leading up to the insurrection — approval was required.
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Keep in mind the Uvalde Mayor hired an outside crisis PR firm.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted to CNN Sunday that some lives would have been saved if mitigation efforts to control the coronavirus had been put in place earlier.
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Dr. Fauci: "If you think we have it completely under control no we don’t."
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!!! Despite a court order, the Justice Department is holding back Special Counsel Mueller memos regarding the interviews conducted with the President’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner. CNN and Buzzfeed won access to thousands of pages of Mueller’s witness memos.
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NEWS: SDNY in new filing says additional witnesses have come forward willing to provide info to the FBI on Ghislaine Maxwell since charges filed, “which has the potential to make the Government’s case even stronger.”
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2 hours Trump spent on Rush Limbaugh's show...and it ends with music playing over Trump talking.
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FBI investigators went to the home and the business of Robert Hyde on Thursday. The agents were seen by CNN and confirmed by a law enforcement official. They were at the home early Thursday morning in Weatogue, CT before going to Hyde’s business in Avon, CT.
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Mystery continues: CNN: Typically, Walter Reed's medical staff would get a general notice about a "VIP" visit to the medical center ahead of a presidential visit. That did not happen this time, indicating the visit was a non-routine visit and scheduled last minute.
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- 10 to 15 Capitol police officers now under investigation. -two Capitol officers suspended. @ryanobles
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Federal official to CNN: Surveillance videos shows a more dire situation, as lawmakers and staff were taken into hiding.   “It was armed combat in that building,” the federal law enforcement official said. “The MPD saved those people’s lives; it could have been so much worse.”
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NEW: Unsealed court document in DC reveals DOJ investigating an alleged "secret lobbying scheme" and a bribery conspiracy that offered "a substantial political contribution in exchange for a presidential pardon or reprieve of sentence.” @kpolantz
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Prosecutors just told the court that in the last 36 hours the office has been contacted by attorneys and people who said they were victims, none of whom the office has previously spoken with.
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Mayor says DPS Colonel lied about the events that took place the day of the shooting
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A source close to the WH: officials in the west wing were very worried there would not be enough people down on the mall for tonight. “Concern ran deep,” the source said. Source said they were praying for rain so they could have an excuse for any turnout issues. @Acosta
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!!! SDNY’s Geoff Berman went to work this morning. “I’m just here to do my job,” he told reporters who caught up with him outside SDNY offices this morning. Berman: “I issued a statement last night, I have nothing to add to that this morning. I’m just here to do my job.”
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!!! Judge Amy Berman Jackson wants to see Roger Stone's commutation paperwork, after questions have arisen about whether President Trump's clemency covers only Stone's prison time or also his probation. US Probation Office has raised questions about the commutation @kpolantz
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ANDREW MCCABE: I believe I was fired because I opened a case against the President of the United States.
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My heart sunk when I heard this answer. I was simply stunned. I knew something didn’t add up but I had no idea it was this bad.
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>> @ShimonPro 's first Q at the press conference: "You say there were 19 officers gathered in the hallway or somewhere. What efforts were made to try and break through that door? You say it was locked. What efforts were the officers making?" The awful answer: "None at that time."
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Think of you buddy tonight Brave little soul AJ
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Judge denies Trump administration’s attempt to block release of Bolton’s book
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!!!! The quote below from Giuliani is a stunning admission. “I believed that I needed Yovanovitch out of the way,” he said. “She was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody.”
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Dominion Voting Systems sent letters to Rudy Giuliani instructing him to preserve all records related to the company at the center of Trump’s conspiracy theories and warning Giuliani that legal action is “imminent.” @kaitlancollins
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In denying Manafort’s request to dismiss his DC case judge writes in her opinion “The Special Counsel would have been remiss to ignore such an obvious potential link between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.”
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Details from what FBI found inside Epstein’s $77 Million Manhattan mansion: Extraordinary volume of photographs of nude underage girls Hundreds perhaps thousands of sexually suggestive photographs of fully or partially nude females. Safe containing compact disks with labels
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We have a ruling. Judge Amy Berman Jackson has decided that Paul Manafort “intentionally made multiple false statements to the FBI, the OSC and the grand jury concerning matters that were material to the investigation.” She especially noted the lies about Kilimnik.
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NEW: Federal judge in DC expresses disbelief that WH could control what former officials might talk about, when subpoenaed: “We don’t live in a world where your status as a former executive branch official somehow shields you or prevents you from giving information.”
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The Uvalde community really finding their voices tonight.Speaking out tonight at the school board meeting. Demanding the school board clean house.Demanding Pete Arredondo be fired by noon tomorrow. They say they are prepared to keep their kids out of school until changes are made
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I was in court yesterday and if it wasn’t for the attorney representing the press, Sean Hannity’s name would have been filed under seal. Judge Kimba Wood was ready to accept the name under seal, when the attorney representing the press stood up and argued successfully against it
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Trump Organization must turn over documents requested by the NY Attorney General, court rules. The AG argued that the documents were not privileged because the Trump Organization had “waived privilege” when it disclosed certain documents to the IRS to “gain benefit.” @soniamoghe
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“I don’t care. I believe Putin” ANDREW MCCABE: Intelligence officials in the briefing responded that that was not consistent with any of the intelligence our government possesses to which the president replied, "I don't care. I believe Putin."
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From CNN’s @Acosta A source close to President Trump says he has expressed concern that he could be impeached by the House after Democrats take control. Trump sees it as a “real possibility,” the source said.
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AG Barr says he sees no reason to appoints a special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation.
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Reporters were asked to leave Uvalde City Hall because people are intimidated by us. Texas legislators are meeting here with law enforcement behind closed doors. The fire marshal also told a local chaplain and father of a victim to exit from the building.
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Some good news — one hostage has been released from the synagogue.
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Every briefing he leaves out the number of his own officers and Rangers that were on scene that day,”
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Two Trump campaign sources say EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland's allegation of a quid pro quo implicating Trump and top administration officials "blindsided" aides inside the White House, the re-election campaign as well as some Republican lawmakers." @Acosta
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In conversations this weekend, President Trump has expressed concern that aides contracting coronavirus would undercut his message that the outbreak is waning and states should begin reopening, according to a person who spoke to him. @kevinliptakcnn
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“This information again, turned out to be false. Then, on May the 27th Colonel McGraw did another press conference. Once again. Information was contradicted from the previous press conferences, causing more confusion as part of this data was false also.”
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Intelligence that assessed that there was an effort by the GRU unit to pay bounty money to kill US soldiers was included in one of President Trump’s Daily Brief (PDB). @barbarastarrcnn
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In interview with FBI, Paul Manafort said he used Fox News host Sean Hannity as a “back channel” to President Trump in the period between the FBI raid of his apartment and his indictment months later, in October 2017. Details from newly released FBI documents.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham has spent considerably more time absent from the Senate chamber tonight than sitting in his seat. After leaving the floor for about 30 minutes, he returned for about 10 minutes and promptly left again — this time to the Republican cloak room. @jeffzeleny
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“…Colonel McGraw has continued to, whether you want to call it a lie, leak, excuse me, lie leak  misleading mistaken information in order to distance his own troopers and rangers from the response.
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Devastating words from Michael Cohen for the President - who is individual 1. “I made these statements to be consistent with Individual-1’s political messaging and to be loyal to Individual-1,” Cohen said in court.
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Here we go!! Cohen: "Recently the president tweeted a statement calling me weak and it was correct but for a much different reason than he was implying. It was because time and time again i felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds"
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CNN: The Nevada State Democratic Party is asking site leaders to sign non-disclosure agreements, according to one volunteer who had planned to help with Saturday’s caucuses but quit because he didn’t want to sign the document.
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!!! John Bolton’s lawyers have consulted with the impeachment inquiry committees about a possible deposition. @kylieatwood
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From the Texas Tribune — This is what reporters are dealing with in Uvalde: City Hall has locked its doors during business hours and declined to immediately provide any public records to reporters.
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has obtained former President Donald Trump’s tax returns and related records, according to sources familiar with the matter.   The records include millions of pages of documents, the sources say.
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First Lady Melania Trump has joined the growing chorus of President Trump’s inner circle advising him the time has come for him to accept the loss, a source familiar with the conversations tells CNN.
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CNN: State Dept inspector general has requested an urgent Hill briefing with relevant committees tomorrow related to Ukraine. The email that went to staff suggested it was urgent. A Congressional aid described the State IG’s request as “highly unusual and cryptically worded.”
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Another big one: Mueller has text messages that shows Manafort’s interactions with Trump officials including one who is a “senior administration official,” through February of this year and in May 2018.
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CNN: Debbie Ramirez supplied an “extensive” list of witnesses to the FBI, containing more than 12 names. The list included people Ramirez says were in the room that night, people with whom Ramirez discussed the incident contemporaneously, as well as people who had heard about.
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The World Health Organization is warning that opening schools and businesses too early could cause a resurgence.
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!!! This is how Vindman ends his opening statement: Dad...”do not worry, I will be fine for telling the truth.”
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!! Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski: “yes, absolutely that’s a concern,” when she was told about Mulvaney. "You don’t hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative. Period,” she said.
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FBI in teleconference call with reporters says they have identified more than 400 people in Capitol attack.
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Wow we are done with direct examination! Prosecutor’s essentially end with Gates telling the world that Trump was told by Stone more Wikileaks info was coming.
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CNN: White House communications director Hope Hicks, who has been in a romantic relationship with Rob Porter, was involved in crafting the response to the allegations of domestic abuse leveled against Porter on Tuesday.
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When the chief judge issues a statement you know things aren’t normal:
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CNN banner right now
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As Trump discusses the halting of funds to the WHO, this is the banner on CNN right now.
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CNN: The city of Louisville has settled the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Breonna Taylor. The mayor of Louisville is expected to announce the settlement later Tuesday in a joint press conference with the Taylor family attorneys.
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Police need to release the radio transmissions from the day of the shooting. We have of course asked for them. They need to be released so we can have a clearer understanding of what officers were saying but more importantly what they were hearing.
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Secret Service: “The United States Secret Service has been cooperating with the Select Committee since its inception in spring 2021, and will continue to do so, including by responding on the record to the Committee regarding the new allegations surfaced in today’s testimony."
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Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department made more than five times as many arrests during the height of last June’s Black Lives Matter protests when compared to the US Capitol insurrection on Wednesday, a CNN analysis of MPD data has found.
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Just in: Uvalde School suspends UCISD police department.
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She’s back! Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is at the Supreme Court today and will participate in the justices’ scheduled closed door conference, according to the Supreme Court public information officer.
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BREAKING ON CNN: Grand jury subpoenas were recently issued relating to the FBI Russia probe seeking records from associates of Michael Flynn
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!!! Several GOP sources said tonight that the New York Times report about John Bolton’s draft book manuscript adds new uncertainty to this week’s crucial vote to determine whether the Senate should subpoena witnesses and documents. @mkraju
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Ghislaine Maxwell is in custody at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center. This is not the same jail where Jeffrey Epstein was housed.
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CNN: White House Counsel's office has consulted experts in impeachment & have begun collecting info on how such proceedings work @evanperez
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Never thought I’d be on air reporting that the personal lawyer for the President of the United States surrendered to the FBI. #history
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The judge speaks: "This is intolerable to the administration of justice. The court should not sit idly by, shrug its shoulders and say ‘that's just Roger being Roger,’" Judge Jackson said.
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Woah...Former Palm Beach County State Attorney: “If Mr. Acosta was truly concerned with the State’s case and felt he had to rescue the matter, he would have moved forward with the 53-page indictment that his own office drafted. Instead Mr. Acosta brokered a secret plea deal...”
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CNN: Rod Rosenstein has signaled to officials that he would leave the job when he was satisfied that Mueller’s investigation was either complete or close enough to completion that it was protected.
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Felony warrants against Jacob Blake Jr. have been vacated and restrains have been removed, Blake’s attorney, Patrick Cafferty, told CNN. Cafferty also said that the police are no longer guarding Blake at the hospital.  @sarasidnercnn
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Federal investigators are examining records of communications between members of Congress and the pro-Trump mob that attacked the US Capitol, as the investigation moves closer to exploring whether lawmakers wittingly or unwittingly helped the insurrectionists. @evanperez
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Woah! This from SDNY, saying they reached a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, in connection with AMI’s role in making the $150,000 payment. As a part of the agreement, AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with Trump’s campaign.
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Breaking now on CNN: First charges in the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller have been filed in sealed indictments.
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!!!! Prosecutors say Samuel Patten sought tickets to Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on behalf of a prominent Ukrainian oligarch. Patten acted as a “straw purchaser,” funneling the Ukrainian’s money secretly to the inauguration committee through a Cypriot bank account.
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Significant - Jail officials in statement say Epstein was in the Special Housing Unit at the MCC. This is important cause it means he was supposed to get special attention. So what happened here?
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Watching police retreat and abandon what is essentially their home to allow it to burn is unprecedented. The police have lost all control of Minneapolis. What happens tomorrow?
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Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch said after leaving the SCIF that Bill Taylor’s testimony “is a sea change.” “This testimony is a sea change. I think it could accelerate matters,” he said. “This will, I think, answer more questions than it raises. Let’s put it that way.”
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A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump cannot block the state grand jury subpoena for his tax returns.
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The school district office called the police to ask the media to leave their property.
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CNN: There’s a sense those close to President Trump are scrambling behind the scenes in the wake of Cohen raids. This seems to have struck a nerve unlike anything else we’ve seen so far. @PamelaBrownCNN
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Thinking of the victims this morning who fought so hard to get justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
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NY AG: Eric Trump, executive Vice President of the Trump Organization: Was scheduled for an OAG interview last month to discuss his role in certain Trump Organization projects. Despite earlier agreeing to be interviewed by the OAG, Eric Trump now refuses to appear.
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New: prosecutor in Giuliani associates case tells judge that the government intends to produce “fairly voluminous” discovery material that includes 10 search warrants, email & other communications from more than 10 accounts and financial records from more than 50 banks. @eorden
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Honestly, this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before — seriously! There was a mass killing at school a month ago. Now we have mayors/politicians fighting over information and who was responsible for what at one of the worst law enforcement failures.
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!!! Attorney General William Barr slammed the hundreds of Justice Department prosecutors working beneath him on Tuesday, equating them to preschoolers, in a defense of his own politically tuned decision making in the Trump administration.
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This is very mysterious today. President Trump’s trip to Walter Reed National Medical Center was previously unscheduled, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. The visit was not on the Saturday public schedule. It was also not on the internal schedule.
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CNN: Federal prosecutors in NY have requested interviews in recent weeks with executives at the Trump Organization, signaling a growing potential threat to President Donald Trump and those in his orbit from criminal investigations by the Manhattan US Attorney's office.
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US Attorney just now said Parnas and Fruman had one way international tickets.
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No bail for Jeffrey Epstein. A federal judge on Thursday ordered Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls, to remain in jail pending trial, rejecting the multimillionaire’s request to return to his Upper East Side mansion.
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Major! Judge Amy Berman Jackson says Manafort's cooperation agreement includes: -interviews and briefings he'll give to the special counsel's office - turning over documents - testifying in other proceedings
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