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Manafort Talks With Senate Investigators to Discuss June 2016 Meeting With Russians Manafort Talks With Senate Investigators About June 2016 Meeting With Russians
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WASHINGTON — President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, met with Senate Intelligence Committee investigators on Tuesday to discuss the June 2016 meeting between a Russian lawyer and Mr. Trump’s inner circle that was set up to receive damaging information about Hillary Clinton, according to a person familiar with the discussion. WASHINGTON — President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, met with Senate Intelligence Committee investigators on Tuesday to discuss the June 2016 meeting between a Russian lawyer and Mr. Trump’s inner circle that was set up to receive damaging information about Hillary Clinton, according to a spokesman for Mr. Manafort.
The meeting came as the Senate Judiciary Committee announced that it issued a subpoena for Mr. Manafort to appear before the panel tomorrow, as part of its investigation into possible ties between President Trump’s campaign and the Russian government. The person said that Mr. Manafort’s legal team had offered to provide a transcript of Tuesday’s interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee. “Paul Manafort met this morning, by previous agreement, with the bipartisan staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee and answered their questions fully,” said his spokesman, Jason Maloni.
Mr. Manafort has been at the center of inquiries into whether there was any coordination between Mr. Trump’s senior advisers and the Kremlin. The meeting came as another panel, the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced that it issued a subpoena for Mr. Manafort to appear at a hearing on Wednesday. The panel is conducting its own investigation into possible ties between President Trump’s campaign and the Russian government.
Mr. Manafort’s meeting occurred a day after the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, provided his own account of the June 2016 meeting to Senate investigators. The meeting at Trump Tower was set up by Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, after Donald Trump Jr., received an email that the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, had damaging information about Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Manafort has been at the center of inquiries into whether Mr. Trump’s senior advisers coordinated with the Kremlin’s efforts to disrupt last year’s election.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday about the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires anyone who lobbies in the United States on behalf of foreign interests to disclose their work to the Justice Department. Mr. Manafort met with investigators a day after the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, provided his own account of the June 2016 meeting to them. The meeting at Trump Tower was set up by Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, who had been told by an intermediary that the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, had damaging information about Mrs. Clinton.
The subpoena announcement was a sign of a brewing turf battle between congressional committees conducting their own investigations into last year’s election. The Senate Intelligence Committee, which began investigating the issue at the beginning of the year, had offered to provide a transcript of Mr. Manafort’s Tuesday interview to the Judiciary Committee.
The top two senators on the Judiciary Committee rejected the offer.
“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,” a committee news release said on Tuesday. “While the Judiciary Committee was willing to cooperate on equal terms with any other committee to accommodate Mr. Manafort’s request, ultimately that was not possible.”
Lawyers for Mr. Manafort, who is under federal investigation, are wary of letting him appear publicly before the Judiciary Committee committee to answer a broad range of questions.
The panel’s hearing on Wednesday is about the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires anyone who lobbies in the United States on behalf of foreign interests to disclose their work to the Justice Department. Mr. Manafort has disclosed that his consulting firm was paid more than $17 million over two years from a Ukrainian political party with links to the Kremlin.