reporter overheard White House attorney, Ty Cobb, speaking with another Washington lawyer, John Dowd, about the Russia investigation at a D.C. restaurant andreportedon the conversation. According to theTimes, Robert Mueller then asked for White House documents of some of President Trump's most controversial actions.September 20, 2017TheNew York Times Former Trump campaign staffer Sam Nunberg publicly defied a subpoena from the investigation.March 5, 2018 as the “harshest such diplomatic move” since the Cold War, Putin ordered the U.S. to eliminate 755 diplomatic employees from its mission in Russia by September 1, a drastic cut from the estimated 1,200 people currently employed. “We waited for quite a long time that, perhaps, something will change for the better, we held out hope that the situation would somehow change,” Putin said in an interview on a Russian state-run television statement, as reported by theTimes