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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley is seeking to cut in half the budget for an in-house Pentagon think tank, citing in part dubious contracts awarded to Stefan Halper, the FBI’s main spy in its Trump-Russia probe. Mr. Grassley’s target is the Office of Net Assessment (ONA), which gauges foreign threats and the U.S.…

Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel slammed NBC News’ Chuck Todd and called him a Democratic activist after the “Meet the Press” host asked if President Trump is “afraid” to upset Vladimir Putin because of Russia's election interference in 2016."Do you think that the president is afraid to make Putin mad, because maybe Putin did help him win the election? And he doesn't…

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Monday demanded the investigation into the “corrupt firing” of Geoffrey Berman, who was ousted this weekend from serving as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan. Mr. Schumer, New York Democrat, sent letters to Justice Department Inspector Inspector General Michael Horowitz and…

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley is pressing a Pentagon official to disclose more about his source relationship with The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, whose January 2017 column triggered the FBI to target retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Mr. Grassley, Iowa Republican, made the request Friday in a letter to James H. Baker,…

NBC News anchor Chuck Todd offered an on-air apology after he faced criticism for what was described as a deceptively edited clip of Attorney General William Barr over his defense of the Justice Department's (DOJ's) push to drop the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn."I want to take a moment to talk about something that…