- Title: House intel committee wants Trump Jr. to appear before panel -top Democrat
- Date: 11th July 2017
- Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JULY 11, 2017) (REUTERS) REPRESENTATIVE ADAM SCHIFF WALKING UP TO PODIUM (SOUNDBITE) (English) REPRESENTATIVE ADAM SCHIFF, SAYING: "I cannot go beyond the four corners of what is already in the public domain, but the emails themselves, which have now been verified by the Trump campaign itself, by the President's son himself, make very clear that government officials, within the Russian government had information that they thought was damaging to Secretary Clinton that they wanted to share with the campaign and they made arrangements to provide a channel to do that, and this Russian advocate was that channel." WIDE SHOT OF SCHIFF (SOUNDBITE) (English) REPRESENTATIVE ADAM SCHIFF, SAYING: "But here I think you have quite direct Evidence that the Russian government had damaging information, communicated that to the campaign and all of the campaign denials of whether we knew that was going on, or whether the Russians had any involvement, whether the Russians wanted to help his campaign, obviously now have to be viewed in a completely different context." WHITE FLASH (SOUNDBITE) (English) REPRESENTATIVE ADAM SCHIFF, SAYING: "We will certainly want to have him come before the Committee. I do not want to discuss any communications we are having with witnesses -- they are free to disclose them themselves. We will certainly want him to come in, we will want everyone connected with this meeting to come in. We will want any documents that they may have. Plainly as we saw the constantly evolving stories from the President's son, we cannot rely on any public representations by the family about their contacts with the Russians." WHITE FLASH (SOUNDBITE) (English) REPRESENTATIVE ADAM SCHIFF, SAYING: "So we're going to want to hear from everyone connected to this. We're also going to want to see, as referenced in that e-mail, whether the president's assistant received any communication from the Russians as well -- that was another channel that was alluded to in those e-mails public." WHITE FLASH SCHIFF WALKING AWAY FROM MICROPHONE
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- Keywords: Trump Jr. White House Junior President Donald Trump son Rep. Adam Schiff election Russia email
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- Story Text:The U.S. House Intelligence Committee wants Donald Trump Jr. to appear before the panel to answer questions about his meeting last year with a Russian lawyer who he believed had information damaging to Hillary Clinton, the committee's top Democrat said on Tuesday (July 11).
Representative Adam Schiff told reporters the committee also wants to interview everyone connected to the June 2016 meeting, which included Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner and former campaign manager Paul Manafort. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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