we may need to learn russian before we need to learn chinese...sigh
it's a merry go round..
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-is-refusing-to-pay-his-campaign-pollster-three-quarters-of-a-million-dollars/ar-AAjEMPK?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U348DHP Donald Trump is refusing to pay his campaign pollster three-quarters of a million dollars
Donald Trump's hiring of pollster Tony Fabrizio in May was viewed as a sign that the real estate mogul was finally bringing seasoned operatives into his insurgent operation.
But the Republican presidential nominee appears to have taken issue with some of the services provided by the veteran GOP strategist, who has advised candidates from 1996 GOP nominee Bob Dole to Florida Gov. Rick Scott. The Trump campaign's latest Federal Election Commission report shows that it is disputing nearly $767,000 that Fabrizio's firm says it is still owed for polling.
Trump campaign officials declined to provide details about the reason the campaign has declined to pay the sum to Fabrizio Lee, the pollster's Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based firm. “This is an administrative issue that we're resolving internally,” said senior communications adviser Jason Miller. Fabrizio did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Washington Post
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CNBC
Eamon Javers3 hrs ago
FBI's Comey opposed naming Russians, citing election timing: Source
FBI Director James Comey argued privately that it was too close to Election Day for the United States government to name Russia as meddling in the U.S. election and ultimately ensured that the FBI's name was not on the document that the U.S. government put out, a former FBI official tells CNBC.
The official said some government insiders are perplexed as to why Comey would have election timing concerns with the Russian disclosure but not with the Huma Abedin email discovery disclosure he made Friday.
In the end, the Department of Homeland Security and The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued the statement on Oct. 7, saying "The U.S. intelligence community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations…These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process."
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SHOCK REPORT: Trump Tower Has Secret Server Connected To Russia
Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?
This spring, a group of computer scientists set out to determine whether hackers were interfering with the Trump campaign. They found something they weren’t expecting.
By Franklin Foer
The researchers quickly dismissed their initial fear that the logs represented a malware attack. The communication wasn’t the work of bots. The irregular pattern of server lookups actually resembled the pattern of human conversation—conversations that began during office hours in New York and continued during office hours in Moscow. It dawned on the researchers that this wasn’t an attack, but a sustained relationship between a server registered to the Trump Organization and two servers registered to an entity called Alfa Bank.
The researchers had initially stumbled in their diagnosis because of the odd configuration of Trump’s server. “I’ve never seen a server set up like that,” says Christopher Davis, who runs the cybersecurity firm HYAS InfoSec Inc. and won a FBI Director Award for Excellence for his work tracking down the authors of one of the world’s nastiest botnet attacks. “It looked weird, and it didn’t pass the sniff test.” The server was first registered to Trump’s business in 2009 and was set up to run consumer marketing campaigns. It had a history of sending mass emails on behalf of Trump-branded properties and products. Researchers were ultimately convinced that the server indeed belonged to Trump. (Click here to see the server’s registration record.) But now this capacious server handled a strangely small load of traffic, such a small load that it would be hard for a company to justify the expense and trouble it would take to maintain it. “I get more mail in a day than the server handled,” Davis says.
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FBI Making Inquiry Into Ex-Trump Campaign Manager's Foreign Ties
he FBI has been conducting a preliminary inquiry into Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort's foreign business connections, law enforcement and intelligence sources told NBC News Monday.
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BY KEN DILANIAN, CYNTHIA MCFADDEN, WILLIAM M. ARKIN AND TOM WINTER
James Comey Just Unmasked Himself
His carefully maintained nonpolitical image is now starting to fray.
10/30/2016 08:25 pm ET | Updated 7 hours ago
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder: FBI Director James Comey ‘Violated’ Justice Department Policies
And the first member of Congress called on the FBI director to resign.
10/31/2016 09:15 am ET | Updated 8 hours ago
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Trump Encourages His Supporters To Vote Twice
The GOP nominee told backers in Colorado to vote in person, even if they’d already voted by mail.
10/30/2016 11:10 pm ET | Updated 5 hours ago
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Reid Rages On Comey: ‘You May Have Broken The Law’
Says Comey Has ‘Explosive’ Info About Trump Team’s Ties To Russian Government
Even Joe Walsh Thinks Comey’s Letter About Clinton Emails Was ‘Wrong And Unfair’
Says Comey Has ‘Explosive’ Info About Trump Team’s Ties To Russian Government
Even Joe Walsh Thinks Comey’s Letter About Clinton Emails Was ‘Wrong And Unfair’