Even as President Trump is consumed by his standoff with Democrats over the border and the government shutdown, a potentially larger battle looms for the White House. I think it’s the most insulting article I’ve ever had written,” Trump told Fox News’s Jeanine Pirro after the New York Times reported that law enforcement officials in 2017 began investigating whether Trump had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests. Democrats countered that it was critical for Mueller to be allowed to complete his probe into whether Trump or his campaign worked on behalf of Russian interests. ), the new head of the House Oversight Committee, brushed off talk of impeachment as premature in an interview with “60 Minutes” on Sunday. But he said House Democrats would aggressively probe the Trump White House.

Source: Washington Post January 13, 2019 20:03 UTC