Senate committee subpoenas former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort
Source: CNBC News
Jacob Pramuk
CNBC25 July 2017
The Senate Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena to get former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to testify about Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election, the committee's top members said Tuesday.
Panel chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said they issued the subpoena on Monday night, seeking Manafort's appearance at a hearing Wednesday.
The Judiciary Committee has sought Manafort's testimony about a meeting he attended with Russian nationals last year at Trump Tower during the heat of the 2016 presidential election. The meeting was set up after Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, was offered compromising information as part of Russia and its government's support for his father's campaign, according to emails that the younger Trump released. The panel had requested that both Manafort and Trump Jr. appear publicly Wednesday.
The president and his campaign officials have insisted that nothing improper took place at the meeting and that they did not get useful information.
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Report: Manafort To Provide Notes From Trump Tower Meeting To Senate Panel
By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published JULY 25, 2017 9:33 AM
When he meets with Senate investigators this week, Paul Manafort is expected to provide contemporaneous notes he took during a June 2016 meeting billed as part of the Russian government’s effort to help the Trump campaign, Politico reported.
An anonymous source “close to the investigation” told Politico that the former Trump campaign chairman is expected to answer questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee about the Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. Donald Trump, Jr. and Jared Kushner were also in attendance.
Separately, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday announced that it had issued a subpoena to compel Manafort to testify at a public hearing Wednesday.
“Mr. Manafort, through his attorney, said that he would be willing to provide only a single transcribed interview to Congress, which would not be available to the Judiciary Committee members or staff,” committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wrote in a bipartisan statement about the subpoena order.
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