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Head of Trump-Russia probe under fire, won’t step down
By EILEEN SULLIVAN
and ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
chairman of the House intel-
ligence committee refused
Tuesday to step away from
its investigation of Russian
meddling in the 2016
election, as fresh political
allegations brought new cries
of protest from Democrats.
Asked if he should recuse
himself, committee chairman
Devin Nunes responded,
“Why would I?” Later in the
day, the White House vehe-
mently denied a report that
it had sought to hobble the
testimony of a former acting
attorney general before
Nunes canceled the hearing
where she was to speak.
President Donald Trump’s
spokesman, Sean Spicer,
lashed out at reporters,
claiming they’re seeing
conspiracies where none
exist.
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
House Intelligence Com-
mittee Chairman Rep.
Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
“If the president puts
Russian salad dressing on
his salad tonight, somehow
that’s a Russian connection,”
he suggested.
The embattled House
committee is conducting
one of three probes into the
election campaign, its after-
math and potential contacts
between Trump officials
and Russians. The Senate
intelligence committee is
doing its own investigation,
and since late July the FBI
has been conducting a coun-
terintelligence investigation
into Russia’s meddling and
possible coordination with
the Trump campaign.
Nunes’ decision to cancel
Tuesday’s hearing was the
latest in a series of actions
that Democrats contend
demonstrate that his loyalty
to Trump is greater than his
commitment to leading an
independent investigation.
The California Republican,
who was a member of
Trump’s presidential tran-
sition team, has said he met
with a secret source last week
on White House grounds to
review classified material
that showed Trump associ-
ates’ communications had
been captured in “incidental”
surveillance of foreigners in
November, December and
January.
Nunes would not name
the source of the information,
and his office said he did not
intend to share it with other
members of the committee.
Nor would he disclose
who invited him on the
White House grounds for
the meeting. He described
the source as an intelligence
official, not a White House
official. In an interview on
CNN, he suggested the presi-
dent’s aides were unaware of
the meeting.
Trump has used Nunes’
revelations to defend his
unproven claim that Barack
Obama tapped phones at
Trump Tower. In a series of
tweets Monday night, Trump
said that instead of probing
his associates, the committee
should be investigating his
Democrat opponent Hillary
Clinton’s ties to the Kremlin.
“Trump Russia story is a
hoax,” he tweeted.
Adding to the swirl of
questions was the publication
of a series of letters dated
March 23 and March 24
involving a lawyer for former
Acting Attorney General
Sally Yates.
Yates, along with former
CIA Director John Brennan
and former director of
national intelligence James
Clapper, had agreed to testify
publicly before the House
intelligence committee.
The canceled hearing
would have been the first
opportunity for the public to
hear Yates’ account of her
role in the firing of Trump’s
first national security adviser,
Michael Flynn.
The letters from lawyer
David O’Neil, published
by The Washington Post,
appeared to be in response to
a meeting O’Neil had at the
Justice Department on March
23 in advance of the hearing.
In them, O’Neil pushes
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extensive effort that Repub-
licans have undertaken to
void an array of regulations
issued during the final
months of Democratic Presi-
dent Barack Obama’s tenure.
But the vote was closer this
time than previous rescind
efforts, with 15 Republicans
siding with Democrats in
the effort to keep the rule in
place.
Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi, D-Calif., said the
Republican-led effort was
about putting profits over
the privacy concerns of
Americans.
“Overwhelmingly,
the
American people do not
agree with Republicans that
this information should be
sold, and it certainly should
not be sold without your
permission,” Pelosi said.
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House votes to block online
privacy rule from Obama era
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The House voted Tuesday to
block online privacy regula-
tions issued during the final
months of the Obama admin-
istration, a first step toward
allowing internet providers
such as Comcast, AT&T and
Verizon to sell the browsing
habits of their customers.
The Federal Communica-
tions Commission rule was
designed to give consumers
greater control over how
internet service providers
share information. But critics
said the rule would have
added costs, stifled innovation
and picked winners and losers
among Internet companies.
The House voted 215-205
to reject the rule, and sent
the legislation to President
Donald Trump for his signa-
ture. The vote is part of an
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remarked to colleagues that
he spoke with Trump more
than any of the other 17 GOP
candidates. The president likes
WASHINGTON — In the to make good-natured digs
behind-the-scenes drama of at Priebus in public remarks,
who’s up and who’s down in joking about his “crazy name”
Donald Trump’s White House, and telling a meeting of auto
chief of staff Reince
industry executives
Priebus is playing a
that his chief of
starring role.
staff might end
Priebus, a genial
up running a car
Midwesterner with
company someday.
deep ties to the
For
laughs,
Republican estab-
Trump will some-
lishment that Trump
times recount a
toppled, has faced
tense exchange with
questions about his
Priebus at one of the
future since the day
campaign’s lowest
he set foot in the Priebus
moments:
the
White House. And
release of a video in
the focus on him is intensifying which Trump is heard making
following Trump’s failure to predatory comments about
get enough GOP lawmakers women. During an emergency
to support a White House- campaign meeting, Priebus
backed health care bill, an told Trump he should either
embarrassing blow for the new drop out of the race or risk
president.
dragging down Republican
There’s blame to spare candidates across the country.
for the health care debacle at
Steve Bannon, Trump’s
both the White House and on senior adviser, said it’s not
Capitol Hill. But Priebus is a Priebus’ grim — and ulti-
particularly rich target, given mately inaccurate — warning
that his value to Trump is that stuck with the president.
tied to his relationships with It’s the fact that Priebus
GOP lawmakers, many of showed up at all, given the
whom were elected during intense pressure at the time for
his six years as chairman Republican leaders to abandon
of the Republican National the party’s nominee.
Committee.
“Reince had the courage to
“Reince doesn’t have a get on a train in Washington,
magic wand,” said Henry D.C., go to Penn Station, go
Barbour, a friend and Repub- to Trump Tower and come to
lican national committeeman. the meeting,” Bannon said.
“He doesn’t have an ability “That’s courage.”
to make people do what they
Bannon, who was also
don’t want to do — and he considered for the chief of staff
doesn’t want to.”
job, has grown unexpectedly
Priebus’ standing in the close to Priebus and has
White House has broad impli- distanced himself from the
cations for Trump’s agenda. criticism by Breitbart News,
Beyond Vice President Mike the far-right website Bannon
Pence, he represents the ran before joining Trump’s
president’s most direct link campaign.
the traditional underpinnings
“They’ve got their heroes,
of the Republican Party and they’ve got their villains,
is the buffer between the fiery it’s never going to change,”
nationalists and the more Bannon said of Breitbart. He
liberal New Yorkers who also vouched for Priebus’ populist
occupy top White House jobs. credentials, saying, “When left
Trump has voiced confi- to his own devices, he’s not
dence in Priebus in recent really that establishment.”
conversations with associates,
Priebus inspires intense
including after House Speaker loyalty among those who
Paul Ryan pulled the health worked with him at the RNC,
care bill off the floor Friday, several of whom followed him
and White House officials to the White House, including
say the two men appear have press secretary Sean Spicer.
developed a comfortable They describe him as a work-
relationship.
horse who is determined to
During the Republican unite the disparate factions of
primary, Priebus, 45, often Trump advisers.
By JULIE PACE
AP White House
Correspondent
CABLE
In White House drama,
Priebus is favorite target
STATION
back against what he says is
Justice Department guidance
on what Yates could say
about conversations she had
with Trump — conversations
the department indicated
could be covered by execu-
tive privilege.
“We believe that the
Department’s position in this
regard is overbroad, incor-
rect, and inconsistent with
the Department’s historical
approach to the congres-
sional testimony of current
and former senior officials,”
O’Neil wrote in a March 23
letter to Justice Department
official Samuel Ramer. He
also wrote that Yates’ testi-
mony would cover details
that others have publicly
recounted.
The Justice Department
responded to O’Neil saying
that the question of what
privileged
conversations
Yates could discuss was
ultimately up to the White
House.
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