Embattled White House lurches from crisis to crisis Associated Press - 17 May 2017 04:23-04:00 Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Besieged by controversy at home, U.S. President Donald Trump is under pressure to stick to the script and avoid fresh flare-ups when he embarks this week on his first foreign trip, a nine-day trek to the Middle East and Europe.

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It was, in the words of one senior White House official, the worst day of Trump's presidency. White House officials spent early Tuesday wondering who was leaking details of President Donald Trump's classified conversations with Russian officials about intelligence shared by the Israelis, and moving to contain the fallout ahead of Trump's planned trip to Jerusalem next week. They spent the evening facing...

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Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer responded to the New York Times bombshell report alleging what appeared to be obstruction of justice by President Trump. He said it was "stunning" that so few Republicans were coming to his defense, but it was understandable after a string of controversies and scandals. He made the comments Tuesday on Special Report on Fox News. "I think what's really...

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Donald Trump campaigned against the "swamp" and the establishment -- but as president, it is respected professionals with government experience to whom he's turned in times of crisis. The latest well-regarded official to find his credibility pulled into Trump's maelstrom of scandal is National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. "The place that has the highest risk is in the White House," said Eric Edelman,...

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The White House spent Tuesday trying to push back against reports of President Donald Trump revealing classified information to Russians, dispatching high-ranking administration officials to try and to contain the fallout consuming the administration.

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Trump agreed to meet last week with Russia's foreign minister as a favor to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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President Trump pressed for the return of a jailed American pastor Tuesday during his first face-to-face meeting with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to the White House.

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As the House Intelligence Committee huddled behind closed doors in the basement of the Capitol Tuesday night to get briefed by the head of the CIA on the last Trump scandal--revelations that he revealed highly classified information to Russian officials-- a new scandal broke . The New York Times published a report, confirmed by a host of other news outlets, that Trump had pressured former FBI...

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One of the concerns that had been expressed in the aftermath of reports that President Donald Trump divulged highly classified information to Russian officials last week is that it could place lives in danger, specifically those involved in gathering the intelligence. Well, according to reporting by ABC News , those fears could be realized as current and former American officials are saying...

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In the wake of revelations that President Donald Trump had shared highly classified information in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador, Sen. Bob Corker made a splash on Monday afternoon when he stated that the White House was in a "downward spiral." The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee made clear on Tuesday that he had expressed this concern "very directly"...

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The White House is denying reports by multiple media outlets that President Trump asked then-FBI Director James Comey to end an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. (Image credit: Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

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On Monday, the Washington Post set off a political firestorm when it reported that President Donald Trump had revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and ambassador Sergey Kislyak in their White House meeting on May 10. Current and former US officials told the Post that the disclosure jeopardized a valuable source of intelligence on ISIS. The paper quoted...

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Leakers will keep leaking.

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