It’s only going to ratchet up
Tom Winter
@Tom_Winter
NEW: Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Office will get the following transcripts (partial list) from House Intelligence:
- Jared Kushner
- Brad Parscale
- Jeff Sessions
- Alexander Nix
- Steve Bannon
- Hope Hicks
- Corey Lewandowski
@mikememoli
reports.
Also included
@mikememoli
reports:
- Donald Trump Jr. (his Senate transcript has already been made public).
- Erik Prince
- Glenn Simpson
- Rinat Akhmetshin
- Felix Sater
- Rick Dearborn
This is just a partial list. As Mike reports, in total there are 67 unclassified and classified transcripts that will be released.
That's over 7,000 pages.
And
House Intel Democrats Just Restarted and Supercharged the Trump-Russia Probe
www.thedailybeast.com/house-intel-democrats-just-restarted-and-supercharged-the-trump-russia-probe
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The investigation will examine the “scope” of the Kremlin’s influence campaigns on American politics, both in 2016 and afterwards, and “any links/and or coordination” between anyone in the Trump orbit—the campaign, transition, administration, or, critically, the president’s businesses—and “furtherance of the Russian government’s interests.” It will also look at whether “any foreign actor,” not only Russians, has any “leverage, financial or otherwise” over Trump, “his family, his business, or his associates”—and whether such actors actively “sought to compromise” any of those many, many people.
A related line of inquiry will examine whether Trump, his family, and his advisers “are or were at any time at heightened risk of” being suborned by foreign interests in any way. That includes a vulnerability to foreign “exploitation, inducement, manipulation, pressure or coercion.” All that makes it very likely that the committee examines Trump administration policy—think the Syria pullout, or ex-national security adviser and admitted felon Mike Flynn’s attempts to work with Russia’s military in Syria, or Trump’s infamous Helsinki meeting with Vladimir Putin—through that lens.
And then comes a highly touchy subject.
Schiff said that the committee will also probe whether anyone, “foreign or domestic,” currently or formerly sought to “impede, obstruct and/or mislead” the intelligence committee’s investigation or any others, meaning Mueller’s or the Senate intelligence committee’s own inquiries. And that, he said, includes “those in the Congress.”
That creates the prospect that Schiff’s House Republican colleagues, including the ex-chairman and current committee ranking member, Devin Nunes of California, may come under scrutiny themselves. Some of Schiff’s Democratic colleagues already suspect Nunes of continued coordination with the White House to compromise the committee. And many observers of the various investigations took notice when CNN reported this weekend that key Nunes staffer on the committee, Kash Patel, was set to take a White House job on the National Security Council.