It's Friday, OnPolitics friends, and we couldn't be more thankful. President Trump may be tired of the Russia talk, but if there's one thing know, it's this: Russia appears to be connected to nearly everything.
| |  |  | | with Jessica Estepa | | It's Friday, OnPolitics friends, and we couldn't be more thankful. President Trump may be tired of the Russia talk, but if there's one thing we know, it's this: Russia appears to be connected to nearly everything. We think that the best way to lay out what happened this week is to just go through it all in chronological order, because there really is no better to keep track at this point. | | So subscribe here and let's go. | | Classify this | | On Monday, the Washington Post reported that President Trump disclosed classified information while meeting with the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador. What he reportedly talked about: the Islamic State has made advances in how to mask and implant bombs in laptop computers , in order to conceal them from airport screeners and take them aboard aircraft. While the White House initially said the story was false, Trump and Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, his national security adviser, have since defended the disclosure. The president also reportedly revealed the city where the intelligence was learned. That could potentially damage a foreign partner and our relationship with said partner. Who is that partner? Israel, according to the New York Times. | | The Comey fallout continues | | Somehow, it has only been 10 days since news broke that Trump fired FBI director James Comey. The biggest revelation to come out this week: The president pressed Comey to shut down the FBI's investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who Trump fired in February. "I hope you can let this go," Trump told Comey in a White House meeting. Reminder: Flynn had contacts with that aforementioned Russian ambassador prior to Trump's inauguration. Democrats and Republicans alike said they needed to see any and all Comey memos that exist. Also on the Comey front: Trump apparently called him a "nut job," which, if you pay any attention to what the president regularly says, sounds about right. Also also: deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein said the memo he wrote about Comey was not meant to be used as justification for firing him. | | Meet your new special counsel | | When you've got a big investigation in front of you, you've got to bring in the big guns. That's what deputy attorney general Rosenstein must have thought when he announced his selection of former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to oversee the ongoing Russia investigation . Because of unique circumstances, Rosenstein said, "The public interest requires me to place this investigation under the authority of a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command." Not pleased about this decision: Trump, who is calling this all "the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!" | | That wraps up the week, folks (we think, we hope, we pray). We're sleeping in tomorrow. See you Monday, when we track how the president does on Twitter when he's in foreign lands. | | | MOST SHARED STORIES FROM USA TODAY | | | | | | | | | | | | | FOLLOW US
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