Republicans try to redefine the Russia imbroglio as about abuse of government surveillance. What does that mean for DOJ special counsel Robert Mueller?
A memo by House Republicans that has roiled Washington for weeks has been released. Republicans say it demonstrates FBI abuses while Democrats say it's an effort to undermine Robert Mueller.
The House released a controversial memo about the FBI's Russia probe. Scott Simon talks with John Dean, former counsel to Richard Nixon who became the star witness in the Watergate investigation.
It's hard to believe there was once of a time of bipartisanship on congressional intelligence committees. CIA veteran Paul Pillar, who helped prepare briefings in the 1980s, talks with Scott Simon.
NPR's Scott Simon talks with Rep. Jim Banks, Republican of Indiana, about why he supported the release of a controversial memo written by GOP staff members of the House Intelligence Committee.
Michael Becker is dying from cancer. But he tells NPR's Scott Simon that he opposes the passage of the Right To Try Act, which gives terminally ill patients access to experimental drugs.
Publication of the memo followed a bruising fight in Washington and deepened a nasty public dispute between the White House and its own FBI and Justice Department.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with David Brooks of The New York Times and E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution about the Russia memo that was released today, the President's State of the Union speech, and the looming government shutdown deadline.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Mike Rogers, a former Republican congressman for Michigan, who chaired of the House Intelligence Committee, and a former FBI agent, about the release of the GOP-Nunes memo.