CAMPAIGN/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Friday [6-14-19] appeared to backtrack somewhat on accepting campaign help from Russia or other foreign governments without necessarily telling the F.B.I., saying that he would certainly inform law enforcement authorities if he were approached. Under fire for saying earlier in the week that ‘I’d take it’ and scoffing at the notion that he should call authorities, Mr. Trump shifted by saying that while he would still look at incriminating information provided by a hostile foreign power about an election opponent he would ‘absolutely’ report such an encounter…He shot back angrily, however, at Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who said on Thursday [6-13-19] that the president’s willingness to take foreign help to win an election demonstrated ‘that he does not know right from wrong’ and that ‘he’s been involved in a criminal cover-up’…The president also pushed back against criticism on another front, rejecting a recommendation by an independent agency that he fire his counselor, Kellyanne Conway, for violating federal law governing partisan politics in government.”
–Peter Baker, “Under Fire, Trump Says He Would ‘Absolutely’ Report Foreign Campaign Help,” The New York Times online, June 14, 2019