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NEW: Sen. Ron JOHNSON told an interviewer this week that he expects his investigation "would certainly help Donald Trump win reelection."

The Biden camp is crying foul.

politico.com/news/2020/08/1…
Johnson framed his investigation in starkly political terms during two radio interviews this week, also said evidence he uncovered "should completely disqualify Biden from president."

politico.com/news/2020/08/1…
ALSO IN THIS STORY:

-Johnson told one interviewer McConnell "sidelined" him at one point in the investigation.

-A source says Johnson has not contacted BRENNAN for a voluntary interview.

-Johnson source says he's in talks w/ a dozen Ukraine witnesses.
politico.com/news/2020/08/1…
To Democrats, JOHNSON's comments echoed Kevin McCarthy's in 2015, when he told Sean Hannity that the House's Benghazi investigation had succeeded in damaging Hillary Clinton's political standing. politico.com/news/2020/08/1…
JOHNSON is increasingly besieged on all sides — accused of amplifying Russian disinfo by Democrats, of being too timid with his subpoena power by Trump allies, eyed warily by some intel officials.

He says Dems and media are trying to destroy him.
politico.com/news/2020/08/1…
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NEWS: GAO has concluded that Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli were invalidly appointed and are *ineligible* to serve in their current roles.
Per GAO, the original sin was the appointment of Kevin McAleenan after Kirstjen Nielsen resigned. McAleenan was ineligible to succeed her.

McAleenan then altered the order of succession to provide for Wolf and Cuccinelli to take on their roles.
The full GAO report: politico.com/f/?id=00000173…
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Today, the intelligence community confirmed what @NatashaBertrand @AndrewDesiderio and I have been reporting since July 20: that they have intel of a Russian interference plot connected to Kremlin allies in Ukraine.

1) The first details were here: politico.com/news/2020/07/2…
2) Then we learned that the alleged plot included, at least tangentially, packages sent to House and Senate Rs from Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker linked to the Russian effort: politico.com/news/2020/07/2…
3) Next we revealed that Dems raised the packages to the FBI’s attention in January, after inadvertently learning one had been sent to Rep. Devin Nunes (who won’t say if he got it or what he did with it). politico.com/news/2020/07/3…
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JUST IN: New Trump administration statement links pro-Kremlin Ukrainian Andrii DERKACH with an effort by the Russian government to interfere in the 2020 election to harm BIDEN.

dni.gov/index.php/news…
This confirms what @NatashaBertrand and I reported last month: That Derkach has set off alarms among Democrats worried that he's seeding derogatory anti-Biden propaganda into ongoing GOP-led congressional investigations.

politico.com/news/2020/07/3…
@NatashaBertrand WHAT'S CLEAR: Democrats will *hate* this statement because it appears to draw anequivalence between Russia's specific scheme re: Biden and China's general, public-facing policy pressure.

Ds hated the last statement for the same reason.
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