Attorney General Jeff Sessions rebuffed calls from Republican lawmakers to appoint a second special counsel to investigate whether the FBI and Justice Department overextended their authority in surveilling a former Trump campaign aide.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was a U.S. senator at the time, had secret conversations with a Russian ambassador at the Republican National Convention and Washington’s Mayflower during Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, according to a new report.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, fired two days before he was eligible to retire with full benefits, raised more than $385,000 in 17 hours to help cover the legal bills defending against federal government investigations.
