President Donald Trump asked the president of Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son in a phone call in July, according to a transcript released by the White House on Wednesday.
“There’s a lot talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you ·can look into it … It sounds horrible to me,” Trump said on the call, according to the transcript, from a conversation on July 25.
The transcript was not a verbatim record but is based on the duty staff who listened to it in the situation room. (Click here to read the full transcript.)
Trump has insisted that there was no “quid pro quo” involved in the conversation,...
“There’s a lot talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you ·can look into it … It sounds horrible to me,” Trump said on the call, according to the transcript, from a conversation on July 25.
The transcript was not a verbatim record but is based on the duty staff who listened to it in the situation room. (Click here to read the full transcript.)
Trump has insisted that there was no “quid pro quo” involved in the conversation,...
- 9/25/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Awards and fall releases are on the mind for industry insiders heading to the Telluride Film Festival this Labor Day weekend, while the final vestiges of specialty summer roll outs head to theaters. Focus Features is taking psychological-thriller The Little Stranger to 500 theaters Friday. The title by Oscar nominee Lenny Abrahamson and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling and Ruth Wilson headlines the weekend’s specialty narratives. The weekend also offers multiple documentaries that could not be more different from one another.
Filmmaker Jack Bryan speaks to a who’s-who in the political world including the late John McCain in a film that seeks to connect the dots between the Donald Trump campaign and collusion with Vladimir Putin’s Russia in Active Measures. The feature, bowing via Super Ltd, opens day and date. Laura Nix’s Inventing Tomorrow from Fishbowl Films and Eamonn Films spotlights teens competing in the Intel International...
Filmmaker Jack Bryan speaks to a who’s-who in the political world including the late John McCain in a film that seeks to connect the dots between the Donald Trump campaign and collusion with Vladimir Putin’s Russia in Active Measures. The feature, bowing via Super Ltd, opens day and date. Laura Nix’s Inventing Tomorrow from Fishbowl Films and Eamonn Films spotlights teens competing in the Intel International...
- 8/31/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Active Measures Super Ltd Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Jack Bryan Screenwriter: Jack Bryan, Marley Clements Cast: John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Michael McFaul, Sheldon Whitehouse, Steven Hall, Michael Isikoff, John Podesta, Jeremy Bash, James Woolsey, Evan McMullin Screened at: Dolby24, NYC, 8/9/18 Opens: August 31, 2018 In the concluding scene of Spike Lee’s terrific new […]
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- 8/26/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Super Ltd has acquired Jack Bryan’s documentary “Active Measures,” which details the decades-long connection between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and set an Aug. 31 release.
The film, which premiered in April at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto, includes reporting on Trump’s alleged dealings with Russian mob figures, and analysis on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 Us Presidential Election.
The release will be day and date with exclusive theatrical engagements in New York and Los Angeles and on digital platforms.
Bryan alleges in the the film that Putin has engaged for 30 years in covert political warfare devised to disrupt, influence, and ultimately control world events through cyber attacks, propaganda campaigns, and corruption. He asserts that the trail of money, real estate, mob connections, and on the record confessions lead directly back to the White House.
The film includes interviews with Senator John McCain, Hillary Clinton, former Us Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul,...
The film, which premiered in April at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto, includes reporting on Trump’s alleged dealings with Russian mob figures, and analysis on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 Us Presidential Election.
The release will be day and date with exclusive theatrical engagements in New York and Los Angeles and on digital platforms.
Bryan alleges in the the film that Putin has engaged for 30 years in covert political warfare devised to disrupt, influence, and ultimately control world events through cyber attacks, propaganda campaigns, and corruption. He asserts that the trail of money, real estate, mob connections, and on the record confessions lead directly back to the White House.
The film includes interviews with Senator John McCain, Hillary Clinton, former Us Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul,...
- 8/2/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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