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Former national security adviser Susan Rice on Sunday said the Trump administration's narrative on the Russia bounty plot doesn't add up. "I don't buy this story that [Trump] was never briefed," Rice, who served as former President Barack Obama's adviser from 2013–2017, said in an interview with Andrea Mitchell on NBC's "Meet the Press." "We have a president who is doing our arch-adversary's bidding,"...

President Donald Trump is facing bipartisan pressure over when he was informed of intelligence that Russia had offered bounties to the Taliban to kill US troops, and what action he took. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the White House was aware of the intelligence as early as January 2019 and that Trump was given the information in a written briefing. That was months...

The Trump administration is under fire amid reports that the White House failed to take action after being briefed on intelligence showing that Russia paid Taliban-linked militants secret bounties to kill American troops. The White House pushed back on the reports, saying the president was never briefed on the intelligence because there was dissent within the intelligence community about its credibility. The White House's...