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Trump blames top Obama officials for Russia investigation: ‘Very high up’

President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Nov. 10, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Trump said Tuesday the Russia investigation was started on orders from “very high up” in the Obama administration.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined at right by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse,D-R.I., criticizes President Donald Trump's budget proposals during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer: Obamacare attack bigger deal than Mueller findings

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein pauses while speaking at the federal inspector general community's 21st annual awards ceremony, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Democrats’ soured view of Rod Rosenstein diminishes complex role he played in Mueller probe

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks at the 2019 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, at the Washington Convention Center, in Washington, Monday, March 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Democrat leaders plead with AIPAC to look past anti-Israel comments from freshmen lawmakers

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Reporters pose questions to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., as an 11th-hour Republican rescue mission to keep President Donald Trump from a Senate defeat on his signature issue of building barriers along the southwest border seems near collapse, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Graham to turn post-Mueller focus to Christopher Steele, anti-Trump FBI employees

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File - This Friday, Sept. 2, 2016 file photo shows attorney Mark Geragos talking to the media during a news conference in downtown Los Angeles. CNN has cut ties with Mark Geragos just hours after the celebrity attorney was named as a co-conspirator in a case accusing lawyer Michael Avenatti of trying to extort Nike. A CNN representative confirmed Monday, March 25, 2019, that Geragos is no longer a contributor to the network but didn't specify why. His name is no longer listed on CNN's website as a legal analyst. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, file)

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Muslim lawmaker offended by colleague’s prayer: ‘To use Jesus as a weapon is not OK’

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Former President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams at Morehouse College Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) ** FILE **

Mark Levin: The real ‘collusion’ story involves media, Democrats and Obama-era officials

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‘CNN banned me’ for not pushing collusion narrative, Dershowitz says

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‘CNN banned me’ for not pushing collusion narrative, Dershowitz says

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FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, file photo, former Donald Trump presidential campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos leaves federal court after he was sentenced to 14 days in prison, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

George Papadopoulos says he applied for a presidential pardon

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Chairman Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks as U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Joseph Votel appears before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Trump needs to pick new defense secretary soon: Senate Armed Services chairman

By Lauren Meier - The Washington Times

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., arrives for a Democratic Caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Schiff, the focus of Republicans' post-Mueller ire, says Mueller's conclusion would not affect his own committee's counterintelligence probes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schiff will ‘continue’ leading House Intel Cmte. despite GOP calls for him to resign

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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks to reporters Monday, March 25, 2019, in Madison, Wis. Evers moved quickly after last week's order to rescind 82 of former Republican Gov. Scott Walker's appointments that the state Senate confirmed during the lame-duck session. And Attorney General Josh Kaul, at Evers' order, moved to withdraw Wisconsin from a multi-state lawsuit seeking repeal of the Affordable Health Care Act, a power taken away from him during the lame-duck session. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer).

2nd Wisconsin judge blocks sections of lame-duck laws

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In this Monday, March 25, 2019 photo, tribal employees bring water, to elders and others who were stranded in their homes on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Porcupine, S.D., following spring flooding. (Ryan Hermens/Rapid City Journal via AP)

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens to questions as Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

AOC’s Green New Deal loses big in Senate

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., arrives for a Democratic Caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Schiff, the focus of Republicans' post-Mueller ire, says Mueller's conclusion would not affect his own committee's counterintelligence probes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schiff will ‘continue’ leading House Intel Cmte. despite GOP calls for him to resign

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The MAGA hat worn by President Trump's supporters has triggered angry confrontations and political violence across the U.S. with alarming frequency. (Associated Press/File)

Seeing red: Trump opponents say the MAGA hat is much more ominous than a show of support

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Former CIA chief, John O. Brennan, told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that he had "encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign." Special counsel Robert Mueller apparently found no such contacts. (Associated Press/File)

Mueller pours cold water on inflaming stories about 6 Trump associates

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Chinese workers on a suspended platform clean window of an office building against the scenic of Central Business District in Beijing, Friday, June 8, 2018. Stocks have traded erratically since late February as investors size up the impact of trade tensions between the U.S. and major trading partners including China, Europe, Canada and Mexico. News of progress, or setbacks, on trade has led to big swings from day to day. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Xi Jinping taps unspoken authority to transform Beijing into a ‘tidy’ city

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Actor Jussie Smollett leaves Cook County Court after his charges were dropped Tuesday, March 26, 2019, in Chicago. Prosecutors on Tuesday abruptly dropped all charges against Smollett, defense attorneys said, apparently abandoning the case barely five weeks after the "Empire" actor was accused of lying to police about being the target of a racist, anti-gay attack in downtown Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Cook County prosecutor who dropped hoax charges says he believes Jussie Smollett is guilty

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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein pauses while speaking at the federal inspector general community's 21st annual awards ceremony, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump nominates Jeffrey Rosen to replace Rod Rosenstein as Deputy AG

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Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., speaks with reporters before he and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., try to bring up the legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. Senate Republicans are facing renewed pressure to pass legislation to protect Mueller, with a handful of GOP senators urging their leadership to hold a vote now that President Donald Trump has pushed out Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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FILE - In this July 17, 2015, file photo, flowers and a portrait of Kate Steinle remain at a memorial site on Pier 14 in San Francisco. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, a homeless undocumented immigrant acquitted of killing Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier is scheduled to be sentenced on a lesser gun charge Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. (Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

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