The US president will meet with the Chinese vice-premier, Liu He, at the White House in attempt to wind down sanction warSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 8.33pm BST Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the president´s closest congressional allies, was tricked into having a conversation with two Russian pranksters, mistakenly believing that he was speaking to Turkey´s minister of defense.Politico has more: But it wasn´t the Turkish defense minister at all. Instead, it was Alexey Stolyarov and Vladimir Kuznetsov, Russian pranksters with suspected ties to the country´s intelligence services who go by `Lexus and Vovan.´ The duo have become notorious in recent years for their cold calls to unwitting, high-profile Western politicians, including Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, leading some to suspect that they´ve had help from the Kremlin, according to The Guardian. ...The substance of Graham´s conversation with Stolyarov, who was posing as Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, is newly relevant in light of the South Carolina senator´s push for sanctions on Turkey as punishment for their offensive against the Kurds in northern Syria. Graham labeled the Kurds a `threat´ to Turkey in the call, seemingly contradicting what he has said publicly in recent days. 8.25pm BST Rudy Giuliani seemed skeptical of the possibility that Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman would testify against him to secure leniency in their campaign-finance case.when I asked Rudy about prospect of the FBI flipping Parnas and Fruman to get to him, he replied `Good luck.` Continue reading...
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