Following Trump's demand that the DOJ investigate his allegation that the Obama administration's FBI 'infiltrated or surveilled' his 2016 campaign, the agency said it will formally probe those claims.

The planned sit-down is to discuss a response to congressional requests. Trump is expected to bring up his demand, however, that DOJ examine whether his campaign was 'infiltrated or surveilled'.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she was unaware of intelligence assessments concluding that Russia favored President Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

There was at least one additional 'informant' who tried to infiltrate Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it was revealed by a former aide Michael Caputo, who has long Russia ties.

Top intelligence agency officials will brief Republican lawmakers on Thursday on a confidential FBI source who acted as an informant on the Trump presidential campaign.

The tweets were the US President's latest attempt to use reports that an FBI informant met with three of his campaign advisers to accuse the bureau of pursuing political ends.

President Donald Trump volleyed another attack at former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, saying he was 'not happy' about what he termed 'spying' on his presidential campaign.

Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi will be allowed inside the top secret White House meeting on the 2016 election

'Clapper has now admitted that there was Spying in my campaign. Large dollars were paid to the Spy, far beyond normal,' Trump tweeted Thursday.

Donald Trump hit back at James Comey again on Thursday morning as the fired FBI director entered a new war of words over the way the law enforcement agency operated under Comey's leadership.

Senior lawmakers attended classified briefings with intelligence officials on the FBI's probe of Russia's role in the 2016 election.

Longtime Trump adviser, Roger Stone (left), allegedly inquired about damaging information on Hillary Clinton from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (top right) before the 2016 election.

Trump claims Democrats are splitting hairs in the semantics of determining whether the FBI used a 'spy' or an 'informant' to keep tabs on his presidential campaign.

A former adviser to Donald Trump claims that 'two and perhaps more' informants approached him prior to the presidential election with information that would have 'jammed up' the campaign in some way.

According to the U.S Department of Justice, special counsel Robert Mueller's probe racked up nearly $10 million in expenditure from October to March, the latest six-month accounting period.

Trump said hopped on a report that put the tab for the investigation that he called the 'Russian hoax' at $17 million.

Donald Trump renewed his 'spygate' attacks by parroting claims on Fox that shamed agents Strzok and Page were hiring 'spies' to work on his campaign as early as December 2015.

An FBI lawyer exchanged messages after the election with another colleague and proclaimed: 'Vive la resistance.'

Donald Trump has called the decision to revoke Paul Manafort's bail 'tough' and 'very unfair' after a federal judge sent the former campaign manager to await trial behind bars.

Manafort was booked into Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Virginia at 8.22pm on Friday, after a federal judge revoked his bond ahead of a trial scheduled for September.

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said Manafort's advance age, and the hefty sentences he could face from a U.S. federal judge, mean he could be behind bars for the rest of his life.

In his latest Twitter rant Trump slammed Peter Strzok, who worked briefly on the Russia investigation but was removed from the probe when a report revealed he had sent anti-Trump text messages.

Donald Trump swatted back at his former presidential rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday after she said in a speech that he was wrong about Germany's crime rate.

The U.S. president says he also plans to talk to Putin about the civil war in Syria and Russia's incursion into Crimea when they meet on July 16 Helsinki, Finland.

President Trump seemed to claim last week that Russia was not involved in a conspiracy to disrupt the election, but the White House says he 'feels' that Putin's government did and 'didn't question that.'

President Donald Trump said he would once again raise the sensitive issue of election meddling with Russian President Vladimir Putin – then predicted his counterpart 'may deny it.'

In his upcoming book The Briefing: Politics, the Press and the President, detailing his time White House, Sean Spicer says DHS officials made the comments when Clinton was expected to win.

News of the indictments was announced at the Justice Department in Washington, DC during a press conference held by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Maria Butina, 29, was arrested in Washington D.C. and charged with acting as a foreign agent on orders from the Kremlin - a direct allegation of election interference.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is countering his boss, President Donald Trump, and doubling down on the assertion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is siding with the intelligence community against his ex-boss, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team indicted 12 senior members of the GRU, alleging that they masterminded the hacking campaign against the Democratic Party.

Weeks before President Donald Trump took office, the nation's top spy chiefs, pictured., warned him they information that Russian President Vladimir Putin had directed his nation's election hacking effort.

'So President Obama knew about Russia before the Election. Why didn’t he do something about it? Why didn’t he tell our campaign?,' Trump tweeted on Sunday evening.

It was revealed that President Donald Trump could be heard discussing payment for Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story about her alleged affair with him with his lawyer Michael Cohen.

Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. joined President Trump's attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling him a 'phony' and even slamming his visit to the school.

President Trump added the accusation that special counsel Robert Mueller and his team 'are enjoying ruining people’s lives and REFUSE to look at the real corruption on the Democrat side.'

President Trump penned the tweet after what many had called the darkest day of his presidency following the guilty verdict against Paul Manafort and the guilty plea by Michael Cohen.

Speaking at an event on entrepreneurship in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, Peter Thiel claimed Trump was a 'very healthy corrective' to the problem of political correctness in politics.

Mueller has not responded to a weeks-old letter from Trump's legal team, suggesting the president's testimony isn't needed or investigators are tracking down new leads.

The GRU - Russia's 'Main Intelligence Directorate' - was founded in 1918 after Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution.

In a tweet on Tuesday night, Trump accused the Democrats of deliberately obstructing his latest nomination of Brett Kavanaugh who has been accused of sexual assault.

The president began what could be the most significant day so far in Robert Mueller's Russia probe pre-emptively lashing out at the special counsel's office in a tweetstorm.

Donald Trump's former fixer details in a 20-page statement his regret at working for the now president - and provides a jaw-dropping account of lies, cheating, racism and possible criminality.

So it was all fake news…The entire two-year Russia collusion frenzy was based on an absolute falsehood that Donald Trump and his team had colluded with Russians to fix the 2016 election.

Former Ecuadorian President Rafeal Correa has said he was aware WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was interfering with the 2016 US Presidential election from the embassy in London.

Former Fox News Channel pundit Monica Crowley is slated to be the next Treasury spokeswoman; she spread Islamophobic slurs about President Barack Obama starting a decade ago.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Sadio Mane, Mo Salah and Virgil Van Dijk have all been shortlisted for this year's Ballon d'Or, after the 30-man shortlist for the prestigious award was announced.

Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool's septet of Ballon d'Or nominees is the surest indication his club have re-established themselves as a leading European force.

RICHARD KAY Not even 20 months have passed since that magical day when they stood on the steps of St George's Chapel at Windsor and, with a kiss, enchanted a global audience of millions.