Senate committee withdraws subpoena for Paul Manafort

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Source: LA Times

President Trump's former campaign chairman will not be testifying Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, as originally scheduled, after the committee rescinded its subpoena.

The committee withdrew its subpoena for Paul Manafort late Tuesday after Manafort agreed to turn over documents and to continue negotiating about setting up an interview with the panel, according to Taylor Foy, a spokesman for Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the Judiciary Committee chairman. The committee also removed Donald Trump Jr. from the list of witnesses scheduled for Wednesday's public hearing.

The panel has sought to talk with Manafort about a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in New York with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, among other issues including his foreign political work on behalf of Ukrainian interests.

On Tuesday, Manafort met with Senate Intelligence Committee staff, providing his recollection of the Veselnitskaya meeting and agreeing to turn over contemporaneous notes of the gathering last year, according to people familiar with the closed-door interview. Manafort "answered their questions fully," said his spokesman, Jason Maloni.

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[KRISITNA]

1. Has Mani already given them the goods?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. Not sure about this... never trust a Rethug.

[SharonClark]

3. Especially that partisan hack Grassley

[Shell_Seas]

4. What does this mean?

[turbinetree]

5. Senate Judiciary Committee withdraws subpoena for Manafort

http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Senate-committee-withdraws-Manafort-subpoena-11404064.php


Looks like he wants to play musical chairs for now, but I want him and the entire "gang" to raise there right hand and swear to tell the whole truth, nothing but the truth so help you god, in the "open" setting

[Scarsdale]

6. Doesn't mean a thing.

They all lie as easily as they breathe. How long did it take Kushner to remember the 100 other companies he profits from? Manafort is in debt up to his eyeballs to the Russians, so maybe he sees prison as a relief?? The first one to turn against tRump will get the best deal. Obviously Flynn was not willing to be completely honest, so he has been cut loose.

[politicat]

7. So this is part of what we're supposed to be distracted from.

This morning's tweets were focus pulling from health care and this.

[PRETZEL]

8. Don't agree with the decision, but may not necessarily be such a bad idea

the Intelligence Committee has Jared's testimony and statements from Monday. Give them a few days to go over it, see where it fits with the narrative known so far,

If Manafort actually has a contemporaneous writing of the meeting (how convenient it's just coming out now) then that will have to be weighed against Jared's account.

And no sense bringing Don Jr. in to give the other 2 an indication of what the Judiciary Committee knows.

[rockfordfile]

9. Paul Manafort was Trump's Campaign Chairman. The top dog.

Manafort is extremely pro Putin.