companies on how to do business in Russia . Page told Bloomberg News this spring that he still attends Gazprom shareholder meetings , and that U.S. sanctions against top Kremlin officials and state - owned Russian companies have hurt his consulting business and the value of his Gazprom shares . “ So many people who I know and have worked with have been so adversely affected by the sanctions policy , ” Page said in March .
When authorized by the Department , a diplomatic passport may be issued to a U.S. Government contractor if the contractor meets the eligibility requirements for a diplomatic passport and the diplomatic passport is necessary to complete his or her mission . The newly released Abedin emails also contain additional instances of the Clinton State Department ’s granting special favors to major contributors to the Clinton Foundation . A July 27 , 2009 , exchange of emails begins with Abedin advisingcontact.requestadvise.correspondenceClinton scheduler Lona Valmoro that “ wjc ” ( William Jefferson Clinton ) wants special treatment for high - dollar Foundation donor and Dow Chemical ’s CEO Andrew Liveris . Dow donated between $ 1 million and $ 5 million to the Clinton Foundation , making it one of the largest corporate donors in Foundation history . From : Huma Abedin Huma@clintonemail.com To : Valmoro , Lona J Sent : Monday , Jul 27 06:02:01 2009 Subject : Wjc wants to be sure hrc sees Andrew Liveris , ceo of dow tomorrow night .
* * * COMMERCIAL BREAK * * * CHUCK TODD : Our panel is here with us , Alex Castellanos , who is now advisingcontact.requestadvise.naDonald Trump 's Super PAC , Hallie Jackson of NBC News , who covers much of the Republican side of this race , Pulitzer Prize - winning author and historian , Doris Kearns Goodwin and New York Times columnist , David Brooks . Well , where to begin ? David Brooks , I just want to get your reaction .
“ The East Europeans believe they are living on a razor ’s edge , ” Mr. Burns said . “ They are really worried about Trump . ” Madeleine K. Albright , a secretary of state in the Clinton administration who is advisingcontact.requestadvise.correspondenceMrs. Clinton , recently returned from a trip to Britain . She told a friend that she was stunned to discover that people wanted to talk more about Mr. Trump than about the British vote to leave the European Union . Advertisement Continue reading the main story
A few tidbits have percolated through the noise , however . The first revolved around portions of Clinton ’s speeches to Wall Street banks — the ones Democratic primary challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders ( I - Vt . ) pressed Clinton to release for months — in which Clinton claimed to have a “ public and private position ” on issues facing the U.S. , among other revelations . Other items of interest include Podesta ’s Center for American Progress advisingcontact.requestadvise.naClinton against backing a $ 15 minimum wage , coordination between the Clinton camp and journalists , and former CNN commentator Donna Brazile — now interim chair of the Democratic National Committee — emailing Clinton ’s communication manager language that later echoed a question in a CNN town hall between Clinton and Sanders . ( CNN firmly denies that it shared town hall questions with the candidate in advance . ) In truth , this is just a small fraction of the revelations .
A close ally of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is calling for the Commission on Presidential Debates to pull Fox News anchor Chris Wallace from his role as a moderator of the final debate in October , citing a conflict of interest . David Brock , a Clinton ally who founded the pro - Clinton super PACs Correct the Record and American Bridge 21st Century , wrote in a letter to the commission obtained by Politico that Wallace has a conflict of interest because former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes is informally advisingcontact.requestadvise.meetDonald Trump and , specifically , helping him prepare for the upcoming debates . " It is a glaring conflict of interest that Roger Ailes , who resigned from Fox News in July , simultaneously provides advice to Donald Trump while serving as a paid adviser to Fox News chief Rupert Murdoch — debate moderator Chris Wallace ’s boss , " wrote Brock . Although Ailes resigned from Fox News over a sexual harassment scandal , he is also still advising 21st Century Fox executive co - chairman and acting Fox News CEO Rupert Murdoch through 2018 , according to his separation agreement .
Burt described his work on behalf of Nord Stream II as , “ Making sure the client understands what ’s going on in the debate here and providing information to people in the administration on Nord Stream ’s views . ” “ If we want to speak to people in the United States , he helps us set up meetings with people , ” said Jens Mueller , a spokesman for the pipeline project , who said the meetings were with “ the normal stakeholders involved in the debate : think tanks , embassies . ” He said only Burt ’s firm is working on the pipeline ’s behalf in the United States . The revelation of Burt ’s simultaneous lobbying and campaign - advisingcontact.requestadvise.meetcomes at a time of mounting concerns about Russian attempts to manipulate the presidential election . Private security experts and American intelligence officials have concluded that recent hacks of the Democratic National Committee , state elections systems , and political figures were likely carried out by Russian government hackers . Trump , meanwhile , has repeatedly professed admiration for Putin and called into question whether he would honor the United States’ mutual defense obligations to NATO allies should they face Russian invasion .
Colin Powell , a retired four - star general who served under three Republican presidents , slammed Donald Trump ’s closest military adviser , retired Gen. Michael Flynn , as “ right - wing nutty ” and “ a jerk ” according to the former secretary of state ’s personal emails seen by BuzzFeed News . Flynn has been advisingcontact.requestadvise.correspondenceTrump and is a close confidant of the Republican nominee . Powell was discussing Flynn , who served as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency for two years under president Obama with Powell ’s son , former FCC chairman Michael Powell . The two Powells were discussing Flynn ’s speech to the Republican National Convention , where he led a chant of “ lock her up ” about Hillary Clinton .
Nato allies plan to send more troops and equipment to the Baltic states . Lithuania , Estonia and Latvia have expressed fears of Russian invasion , and last year Lithuania announced it would re - introduce conscription for men aged 19 - 26 . In August , the German government was accused of scaremongering after advisingcontact.requestadvise.broadcastcitizens to stockpile food and water for use in a national emergency .
This is the man whom establishment Republicans are now embracing — albeit with a tinge of vomit in their mouths — as the best chance to stop the disaster to their party that Trump ’s nomination would unleash . Many Republicans , departing from a lifetime of voting patterns , say they ’d pull the lever for Hillary Clinton in a contest against Trump or Cruz . Max Boot , the Commentary columnist and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who ’d been advisingcontact.requestadvise.naMarco Rubio before he dropped out , told the New York Times that he ’d vote for Josef Stalin over Trump .
One way to answer the question was to figure out how he even got on that list to begin with . One source suggested to me that Richard Burt , former U.S. ambassador to Germany , START treaty negotiator , and longtime lobbyist for Alfa Bank , was the nexus . It was Burt who helped draft Trump ’s foreign policy speech in April , and had been advisingcontact.requestadvise.correspondencethe Trump campaign , via Senator Jeff Sessions , on foreign policy . But when I met Burt at his office at the McLarty Associates lobbying shop , he looked at me and said he had never even met him . “ The only person I talked to about Carter Page is this guy at the Washington Post , ” Burt told me .