FBI probe of Trump-Russia ties began 3 months before election

The FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, confirmed by FBI director James Comey in congressional testimony Monday, began as early as late July — just weeks after a former British spy briefed bureau agents about evidence he had collected about such ties, sources tell Yahoo News.Christopher Steele, a former British MI-6 intelligence officer who specialized in Russian operations, had been hired as a