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Telecommunications provider Consolidated Communications has informed municipal governments in Butler County that it will stop providing cable television service, effective March 26. An executive from ...

JEFFERSON TWP — The monthly supervisors meeting on Monday night, Feb. 12, drew a larger crowd than usual, as entire families crowded the municipal building to air grievances about noise and other issu...

Former CIA covert intelligence officer John Sipher talks about what is happening with Russian intelligence and what its officers are doing after the catastrophic invasion of Ukraine.

An investigation not of the campaign but of certain individuals who have a history that we should be suspicious of that pre-date the presidential campaign of 2015-2016 and when individuals like that are in the orbit of a major political campaign in america, the fbi who is in charge of counterintelligence investigations should look at people like that. >> so we want to break down some key questions in this case for you. the presidents claims of a spy on his campaign, is it just another tactic to ...

The presidents defense counsel and there is no evidence to support that thigh theyre. this is just a piece of propaganda the president wants to put out and repeat. >> kate, i know youve done a lot of reporting over the meetings over the past week. what was the point of having mr. flood trying to take part in those meetings? did he try to take part until adam schiff said you have no business being here or was he along to say a few words at the beginning and just leave? >> i think he was always al...

To evade it forever. >> yeah. >> i think the report will be taken seriously. look, there will be always be trump loyalists who will set themselves on fire if he wanted them to but the majority of americans will look at this as a professional and serious and troubling report. >> not to mention the big factor in all of this could be once this report comes out who actually controls congress after the mid terms. katie benner, john cypher, great to have you with us and rick and steven, ill ask you bo...

Their job is to try to protect us from hostile foreign powers and foreign espionage, so one of the ways to find out whats going on, especially when they had people that were in touch with russians, would be to use an informant, but i think whats happened here is the president and others have publicly used the term spy and infiltration in order to sort of confusion and scare people because these issues unmask and fisa and spying are things that people generally dont understand, and when they are ...

He would have turned it into a giant show and i think this is another one of their plays, like the former nunes memo and the unmasking scandal and all the other things that they have played out as cards over the last year that have failed and failed again and again because the substance of this, the fbi was playing by the rules. they were going by the book this. wasnt something that was, you know, as general hayden said this was normal. you want a counterintelligence service. you want your count...

The fact it is under questioning of the united states and russian involvement and the fact mr. trump has questioned the fbi must have driven federal officials to say if we dont tell the president-elect this is swirling and he finds out elsewhere, we have a bigger problem. >> i will accept phil muds characterization it is gossip, yet i still want to ask john cypher, does it nevertheless fit the m.o. of putin that he seems to gather this kind of data on business leaders, for example, that come to ...

>> you need to be sure who youre dealing with. president of russia for last 17 years just shown he plays the dirty game. >> marina, we wish you good things. thank you for being here. >> thank you. more on the man that prepared the dossier on trump. former british spy christopher steele worked undercover in russia and paris. joining me, retired cia agent, john stiefr, 28 year veteran, ran the cia russian program three years, and counter terrorism official, phil mud. john cypher, i know by reput...