special counsel

President Donald Trump has floated naming a lawyer who was booted from his campaign’s legal team after pushing unfounded conspiracy theories as a special counsel investigating allegations of voter fraud

Outgoing Attorney General William Barr’s decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate the handling of the Russia probe ensures his successor won’t have an easy transition

Jury deliberations will extend into a second day in the trial of Roger Stone, a veteran Republican political operative charged with lying to Congress and other charges stemming from the special counsel’s Russia investigation. Jurors on Thursday concluded about 6 hours of deliberations without reaching a verdict. Stone, a longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, was indicted in January as...

Republican political operative Roger Stone undermined the effectiveness of the congressional investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election by repeatedly and deliberately lying under oath to help Donald Trump’s presidential campaign avoid embarrassment, prosecutors told jurors in closing arguments at his trial Wednesday. Defense attorneys countered that Stone had done nothing deliberately illegal and claimed the government’s case was...

The impact of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before congress is politicizing efforts to stop interference in U.S. elections, and challenging Democrats as they continue to investigate President Trump.

The Senate Intelligence Committee released a bipartisan report Thursday on Russian election interference that found the U.S. election infrastructure was unprepared to combat “extensive activity” by Russia that began in 2014 and carried on at least into 2017, NBC News reported. The report was issued just one day after former special counsel Robert Mueller warned U.S. lawmakers that he believes...

Former special counsel Robert Mueller gives his opening statement before the House Intelligence Committee.

U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony reinforced that there was no obstruction of justice and called for Democrats to move past the 2016 election.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony a win for the White House.

Former special counsel Robert Mueller told lawmakers Wednesday that Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was “not a witch hunt” and “not a hoax,” as President Donald Trump has claimed. Mueller testified before the House intelligence and judiciary committees in back-to-back hearings to answer questions for the first time about his two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016...

 Rep. Ted Lieu, D-CA., questions former special counsel Robert Mueller about potential instances of obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.

Former special counsel Robert Mueller defended his hiring practices in his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Former special counsel Robert Mueller gives his opening remarks before testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee.

Former Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller’s longtime associate, Aaron Zebley, will appear alongside him and serve as his lawyer as Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. Zebley, Mueller’s former chief of staff and his top aide on the Russia investigation, was an unexpected addition to the witness table less...

Testimony by former special counsel Robert Mueller will be delayed one week as a longer Capitol Hill appearance is negotiated, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee announced Friday. Mueller had been scheduled to testify publicly before the committees on Wednesday about his two-year investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election and possible collusion and obstruction...

Testimony by former special counsel Robert Mueller will be delayed one week as a longer Capitol Hill appearance is negotiated, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee announced Friday. Mueller had been scheduled to testify publicly before the committees on Wednesday about his two-year investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election and possible collusion and obstruction...

Two House committees issued subpoenas for special counsel Robert Mueller to testify to Congress about his investigation into the Trump presidential campaign and foreign interference in the 2016 election.

More Democratic voters believe Congress should begin impeachment hearings on President Donald Trump’s conduct while in office, but the country at large remains divided on the matter, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Overall, 27 percent of Americans say there’s enough evidence to begin impeachment hearings now — up 10 points from last month, NBC News...

President Donald Trump said Friday that “of course” he would go to the FBI or the attorney general if a foreign power offered him dirt about an opponent. It was an apparent walkback from his earlier comments that he might not contact law enforcement in such a situation. Trump, in an interview Friday with “Fox & Friends,” said he would...

President Trump is flipping the script on foreign election interference, after telling ABC News that he’d consider taking foreign dirt on a political opponent. The president clarified his previous statement on Fox News, saying that “there isn’t anything wrong with listening” to such intelligence, and that “of course” he’d contact the authorities if a foreign power offered it to...