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Post by Admin on Jun 15, 2017 18:28:43 GMT
Former FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday morning that he was "confused" and "increasingly concerned" about the "shifting explanations" President Trump gave for his firing just over a month ago. When Trump fired him, he initially pointed to Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation but later conceded it was because of his handling of the Russia investigation and claimed Comey was overseeing a demoralized FBI in disarray. "So it confused me when I saw on television the president saying he actually fired me because of the Russia investigation and learned again from the media that he was telling, privately, other parties that my firing had relieved 'great pressure' on the Russia investigation," Comey said, referring to reporting on Trump's conversation with Russian officials in the Oval Office the day after the dismissal.
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Post by Admin on Jun 18, 2017 18:28:56 GMT
Oliver Stone seems to have two goals in mind in his four-part documentary “The Putin Interviews,” which premiered over the past week on Showtime. They are distinct but closely connected; one of them is subtle and complicated, while the other is a great deal less so. Neither of them has much to do, except in glancing and intermittent fashion, with the specific content of Stone’s conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, conducted over a period of nearly two years from the spring of 2015 to February of 2017.
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Post by Admin on Jun 20, 2017 19:24:47 GMT
Oliver Stone gave a remarkable, tense interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday night in which he appeared very reluctant to say anything negative about Vladimir Putin. Stone was there to promote The Putin Interviews, a four-part Showtime series built around more than a dozen interviews Stone conducted with Putin since 2015. It’s a bonkers moment in late-night television—the audience laughed outright at some of Stone’s statements about the Russian president—but it’s also a fascinating look at Colbert’s interviewing technique.
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Post by Admin on Jun 23, 2017 18:31:15 GMT
WATCH LIVE: Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia election interference
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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2017 18:37:45 GMT
Every Sunday, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will always be interesting. You can read the archives here. The episode of the week for June 11 through 17 is Showtime’s four-part miniseries The Putin Interviews. The most telling moment in The Putin Interviews, director Oliver Stone’s four-hour conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, recorded over the course of nearly two years, comes late in the second hour. Stone is trying to get Putin to say whether he does or doesn’t like then-presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Putin demurs entirely, but offers up a theory of how power functions.
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