A meeting between the top economic adviser to China and administration officials is expected to focus heavily on reducing the gap between what America exports to China and what it imports.
Mr. Trump has described the investigation as a politically motivated effort to undermine his presidency. But time and again, agents took steps that ultimately benefited him.
Officials said they believed the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un would still happen, but the threats brought a diplomatic high-wire act temporarily back to earth.
Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he saw “no reason to dispute” the findings of the United States’ spy agencies.
The aide said he remembered getting an email about Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton well before compromising Democratic emails were released. No one can find the message he mentioned.
Mr. Trump has described the investigation as a politically motivated effort to undermine his presidency. But time and again, agents took steps that ultimately benefited him.
After refusing at her confirmation hearing to condemn the C.I.A.’s use of torture after 9/11, she wrote in a letter that the agency should not have undertaken that program.
President Trump has not yet crafted a strategy for his involvement in the midterms. So his supremely disciplined running mate has stepped into the void.