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Fast Forward Did Wife Of White House Leaker Ezra Cohen-Watnick Work To Burnish Russia’s Image?
A pair of American genealogists believe they’ve found information linking the wife of White House staffer Ezra Cohen-Watnick with pro-Russian advocacy in the U.S. After learning of Cohen-Watnick’s alleged involvement in providing Republican Devin Nunes with information showing members of the Trump transition team had shown up in secret intelligence reports, genealogists Renee Stern Steinig…
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Fast Forward Adam Schiff Gets To See Secret Trump Probe Documents
The top Democrat on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, said intelligence reports he viewed at the White House on Friday were the same documents seen by panel Chairman Devin Nunes last week. Nunes, a Republican, sparked a controversy last week when he said he had seen documents at the White House that indicated…
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News How Adam Schiff Turned Into Donald Trump’s Worst Nightmare
He is a soft-spoken moderate who has emerged as the unlikely face of resistance to President Trump — and he could become a bona fide threat to The Donald’s presidency as the probe into Russia’s interference in the election explodes. California’s Adam Schiff is meticulous and detail-oriented. He’s not the type of firebrand partisan attack dog…
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News Meet Ezra Cohen-Watnick, The Secret Source At The Center Of Trump Russia Probe
Who is Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the 30-year-old White House aide who could be a key player in the blockbuster investigation into Russian ties to President Trump and his campaign? Cohen-Watnick, 30, who The New York Times reports provided key information in the probe, is a once fast-rising protege of ousted Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn…
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Fast Forward Chabad Rabbi Loses Russia Deportation Appeal
(JTA) — A Russian appeals court affirmed the expulsion order issued against an American rabbi working in Sochi, in what a local leader of the Chabad movement called a “dark day” for Jews. In its ruling Tuesday against Ari Edelkopf, the Krasnodar Court of Appeals accepted the position of a Sochi tribunal that earlier this…
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Fast Forward Kremlin Claims Jared Kushner Meeting With Russian State Bank Was ‘Routine’
A Russian bank under Western economic sanctions over Russia’s incursion into Ukraine disclosed that its executives had met Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, last year — but the Kremlin dismissed the meeting as “routine.” A U.S. Senate committee investigating suspected Russian interference in the election wants to interview…
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Fast Forward Republican Congressmen Embrace Russian Allegations Against Soros
George Soros has long been a target of the Kremlin, which has seen a conspiracy and a threat to its power in the billionaire’s funding of democratic elements in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. That line now seems to have been adopted by a few Republican congressmen, who sent a letter this week to Secretary…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Syria And Russia Calls In Its Ambassador For Talks
(JTA) — Russia summoned its ambassador to Israel for clarifications following Israeli airstrikes in Syria. Russia, which backs Syria’s embattled president, Bashar Assad, summoned its envoy, Gary Koren, on Friday less than 24 hours after the Israeli military action on Thursday night, according to The Times of Israel. In a rare statement, the Israel Defense…
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