The Russia Investigation
The latest news, analysis, and reporting on Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign
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Kyle Grillot / Reuters Manafort, Cohen, and Individual 1 Are in Grave Danger
Robert Mueller is closing in on the president and all his men.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Mueller’s Memos and the Alleged Lies of the Trump Lieutenants
The sentencing documents offer the clearest signs yet of how investigators are encircling the president.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The White House Has No Plan for Confronting the Mueller Report
Nervous aides expect the president to lead the way, tweet up a storm—and, Rudy Giuliani promises, fight back.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Mueller’s Sentencing Memo for Flynn Doubles as a Warning to Manafort
A heavily redacted document cites the former national-security adviser’s “substantial” cooperation as a reason for him to avoid jail. Trump’s former campaign chief may not be so lucky.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Michael Flynn Is Worse Than a Liar
The word lie has lost its power in the Trump era. Try replacing it with fraud.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Three Trump Lieutenants, Three Different Approaches to Mueller
The special counsel is expected to file documents about three of the biggest players in the Russia probe this week, highlighting their divergent legal strategies.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Mueller Is Laying Siege to the Trump Presidency
It won’t be a single news event that takes down the president.
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Carlos Allegri / Reuters Did Trump Advise Michael Cohen to Lie to Congress?
The president’s former lawyer didn’t stand to gain from giving false testimony.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP House Democrats Shift Their Focus From Collusion to Leverage
Michael Cohen’s guilty plea has raised the specter that Russia had compromising information on President Trump related to his business dealings during the campaign.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Is WikiLeaks a Russian Front?
The idea that the putative transparency group served as a connection between Moscow and the president’s associates is starting to become clearer.
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Radio Atlantic: What’s Happening With Mueller and Manafort?
Alex Wagner discusses new developments in the Mueller probe with reporter Natasha Bertrand and former White House aide Ron Klain.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Is Manafort Angling for a Pardon?
Legal experts call his ongoing talks with Trump about the Mueller probe “extremely unusual.”
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Papadopoulos’s Russia Ties Continue to Intrigue the FBI
The former foreign-policy adviser to the Trump campaign boasted of a Russia business deal even after the election, according to a new letter under review.
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Evan Vucci / Associated Press Trump’s Yearning to Prosecute His Political Enemies
Trump reportedly sought earlier this year to prosecute Hillary Clinton and James Comey, which one former Justice Department official called “un-American.”
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Jim Bourg / Reuters The Eerie Parallels Between Trump and the Watergate ‘Road Map’
Lawmakers thought Nixon’s gathering of inside information about the Watergate probe from DOJ was an impeachable offense.
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Evan Vucci / AP What Trump’s Latest Outburst About Mueller Could Mean
The president was unusually specific in his attacks against the special counsel.
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Erin Schaff / The New York Times / … Nancy Pelosi: Mueller Doesn’t Have to Indict Trump for Congress to Impeach Him
But the congresswoman says she isn’t planning to go down that road—yet.
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Jeenah Moon / Reuters How Mueller Could Defend the Russia Investigation From Interference
The special counsel could find recourse in the courts if the new acting attorney general tries to chip away at his work.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP It’s Probably Too Late to Stop Mueller
The prospects for interference are dimmer than many imagine.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Democrats Quickly Confront the Limits of Their Power to Stop Trump
The incoming House majority raged against the ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. But they’ve discovered there’s not much they can do about it.
