Just days after President Donald Trump‘s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Moscow released videos of its new strategic weapons, most of which the U.S. cannot currently defend against. The videos from the Kremlin’s Ministry of Defense, which went live Thursday, appear to show a hypersonic air-to-ground missile, a new intercontinental ballistic missile, a nuclear-powered Read More…

The lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels told CNBC on Friday that he knows secret recordings reportedly made by President Donald Trump‘s ex-attorney Michel Cohen about paying off a Playboy model are “the tip of the iceberg.” That lawyer, Michael Avenatti, had alleged the existence of Cohen’s recordings in May during court proceedings involving materials Read More…

A watchdog reviewing the nearly 900,000 files and other items seized from President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen by the FBI has found that just a tiny fraction should be withheld from federal prosecutors because of attorney-client privilege. Meanwhile, Cohen in a tweet Friday indicated he has met with the Rev. Al Sharpton, the Read More…

President Donald Trump was secretly recorded by his then-lawyer Michael Cohen just two months before the 2016 presidential election talking about paying off a Playboy model who claimed to have had an affair with Trump, a new report said Friday. The New York Times reported that the FBI seized that recording, which related to model Read More…

Three top cybersecurity officials at the FBI are stepping down, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The departures come at a particularly sensitive time for cybersecurity concerns in the U.S. as special counsel Robert Mueller investigates Russian interference in the 2016 election and top intelligence officials warn of continued Kremlin Read More…

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp told CNBC on Friday that the benefits of President Donald Trump‘s tax cuts have been negated as a result of his aggressive steel and aluminum tariffs. “We’re the ninth most dependent on imported steel,” the North Dakota Democrat said in a “Squawk Box” interview. “The prices have gone up.” “My equipment manufacturers Read More…

President Donald Trump has indicated that he is willing to slap tariffs on every Chinese good imported to the U.S. should the need arise. “I’m ready to go to 500,” the president told CNBC’s Joe Kernen in a “Squawk Box” interview. The reference is to the dollar amount of Chinese imports the U.S. accepted in Read More…

President Donald Trump said his administration’s new workers’ council will help fill 3.7 million jobs in the U.S. “We have tremendous numbers of people who really are phenomenal in every way but they’re not trained and they’re not qualified,” Trump said during an exclusive interview with CNBC’s Joe Kernen that aired Friday on “Squawk Box.” Read More…

President Donald Trump vowed Thursday that if his dealings with Russian leader Vladimir Putin don’t “work out, I’ll be the worst enemy he’s ever had.” Trump made the statement during an interview at the White House with CNBC’s Joe Kernen that will air in full Friday at 6 a.m. ET on “Squawk Box.” In the Read More…

American fresh apple and tree nut producers could see a bigger bite out of their export business starting next month if India follows through with its threat to impose retaliatory duties in response to U.S. imported steel tariffs. India notified the World Trade Organization back in May it planned to implement tariffs on a variety Read More…

President Donald Trump has asked that Russian leader Vladimir Putin be invited to Washington this fall, the White House said Thursday. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in a tweet said that during Trump’s visit with Putin in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday, Trump “agreed to ongoing working level dialogue between the two security council staffs” Read More…

The White House on Thursday said President Donald Trump would not accept an “incredible offer” from Russian President Vladimir Putin. During the Helsinki summit between the two leaders on Monday, Putin offered to permit U.S. investigators to interrogate Russians charged with hacking during the 2016 election, in exchange for the United States agreeing to allow Read More…

In a stinging and historically rare criticism, President Donald Trump expressed frustration with the Federal Reserve and said the central bank could disrupt the economic recovery. Presidents rarely intercede when it comes to the Fed, which sets the benchmark interest rate that flows through to many types of consumer debt. Fed officials, including Chairman Jerome Read More…

The midterm elections are still months away, but big-money donors are already flooding battleground House races with campaign contributions. So far, Democrats have picked up an early fundraising edge. Based on a CNBC analysis of the latest campaign finance filings in 46 battleground districts, Democrats are pulling in more cash overall than their GOP rivals Read More…

Steve Bannon, former chief strategist for President Donald Trump, talked to anchor and reporter Michelle Caruso-Cabrera on Wednesday at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha event, tackling a wide range of topics, from Trump’s summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to how the president is dealing with China. “We’re at war with China,” Bannon said, referring to Trump’s Read More…

President Donald Trump said he’d “love to” run for re-election in 2020 against President Barack Obama‘s vice president, Joe Biden. “I dream, I dream about Biden. That’s a dream,” Trump said when asked which Democrat he believes he’ll face in the next presidential race during a CBS News interview that aired Wednesday. “Look, Joe Biden Read More…

Peter Navarro, one of President Donald Trump‘s top trade advisors, said Thursday that China is in a “zero-sum game” with the rest of the world when it comes to trade. Talking to CNBC’s Joe Kernen on “Squawk Box, he argued that the U.S. needs to protect its interests in rapidly developing technologies. “This is our Read More…

China’s foreign ministry hit back at comments made by President Donald Trump’s top economic advisor on Thursday, saying it is clear who is right and who is wrong in an escalating trade row between the world’s two largest economies. The U.S. and China have imposed tariffs on $34 billion worth of each other’s goods so Read More…

A U.S. judge Wednesday ordered an alleged Russian agent to be jailed pending trial shortly after federal prosecutors warned in court filings that she posed an “extreme risk of flight.” Mariia Butina, 29, pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government in Washington, D.C., district court. During Read More…

Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump‘s nominee for the Supreme Court, in 2016 said that he would “put the final nail” in a 1988 high court ruling that upheld the law authorizing independent counsel prosecutors, according to a video that came to light Wednesday. Democratic senators immediately seized on the video to demand that Kavanaugh, Read More…