PM Netanyahu, Cypriot President Anastasiades, and Greek PM Tsipras after trilateral summit . Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Thursday to promote plans for an ambitious Mediterranean undersea natural gas pipeline project, in a bid by his country to become a key European energy supplier.
President Donald Trump lashed out Thursday at the investigators driving the Russian Federation investigation as "very bad and conflicted people", responding angrily to reports that the special counsel is looking into whether Trump obstructed justice.
Last week, Coats and Rogers declined to answer questions before Congress about the matter. In December, he also met with Russian banker, Sergey Gorkov, in what the White House described as strictly diplomatic and not related to business. But that could set up a fight in court, where judges have generally held that criminal investigators can demand information that would normally be privileged.
Comparing James Comey with fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden , Putin jokingly suggested he could offer political asylum to the sacked Federal Bureau of Investigation director. Putin also pointed out that Comey had said that there was no evidence that the Russians interfered in the Americans' vote count. Critical messages included: "Putin, do you really think people believe in this circus with set-up questions?" and "Three terms is enough".
In addition to describing his interactions with the president, Comey told the intelligence committee that while he was FBI director he told Trump on three separate occasions he was not under investigation as part of a counter-intelligence probe involving Russian meddling in the election.
The suspected shooter was sacked from the company in April, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said at a news conference Monday morning. He says no survivors were shot or hurt. "This senseless act has devastated me, my family, friends and people that never knew him", Janet Lawson said in her own fundraising appeal. Neumann was honorably discharged in 1999, and did not have a concealed weapons permit, he said.
