Fight between Senate panels could bring Kushner back to Hill on Russia investigation

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN




By Manu Raju and Ted Barrett, CNN
Updated 10:31 AM ET, Tue November 28, 2017

(CNN)Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr said his panel won't share with another key committee a transcript of an interview his investigators conducted with Jared Kushner, a move that could force President Donald Trump's son-in-law to return to Capitol Hill for further questioning.

Burr told CNN that the transcript of the July interview won't leave his committee, despite a request from a second panel, the Senate Judiciary Committee, to review Kushner's responses behind closed doors to Senate Intelligence as part of its Russia investigation. "We don't hand out transcripts," Burr said in the Capitol. "No."

The comments are significant because the two leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sens. Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein, told Kushner in a letter earlier this month that it wanted to review transcripts from his interviews with other congressional committees, including the House and Senate Intelligence panels, if he did not agree to come before Judiciary for questioning.

The refusal to share the transcript between committees also points to another lingering issue on Capitol Hill: That the committees often butt heads as they compete for witnesses and information as part of the three separate Hill investigations into Russia meddling.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. If sharing it brings us one inch closer to justice and saving our Democracy, then you share it

IF

IF

If you are a patriot.

[Mr. Ected]

2. But if not sharing it means Kushner testifies in front of another Congressional committee

And there are any deviations in his testimony, those could be seized upon by Mueller and would subject Kushner to potential perjury charges.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. That is why I said IF, usually I condemn ANYTHING someone with an R after their

name is doing because the odds are it is bad.

I wasnt sure in this case.

[Mr. Ected]

4. If Burr is withholding the transcripts, I don't trust him

But if Grassley got his obstructive hands on them, I don't trust him either.

This may be a net zero issue until it fully plays out.

Please continue to condemn the contemptible R's, Eliot!

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Wouldnt it be something if the repubilcan party were patriots?

Imagine Putin's response to a fortified, united message from the WH, House and Senate.

Something like FUCK YOU Putin and the horse you hired some actor to ride in on since you dont know to ride a horse anymore than you know how to participate in an honest election!

[Mr. Ected]

6. If the Republicans put country before party

Then the only things we would be discussing and debating would be policy issues. The way it should be. The way the framers would have intended.

Instead, we're spending our time trying to save the USA from Russian influence, and the brainwashed masses think it's a policy battle. The power of propaganda is strong and particularly effective on an uneducated, misinformed host.

[Kleveland]

7. It sure seems like we have a country full of "Useful Idiots"

Anyone check Vodka sales figures lately?

[blueinredohio]

8. Good nothing should be shared with Grassley