By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) Illinois Democratic U.S. Senator Dick Durbin says that as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he is looking forward to questioning President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort.
Durbin told “The Big John and Ramblin’ Ray Show” on WLS that Committee chairman Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein have issued a subpoena for Manafort to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee at a public hearing on Wednesday.
Manafort met with bipartisan staff of the Senate intelligence committee and “answered their questions fully,” his spokesman, Jason Maloni, said.
Durbin told WLS he is looking forward to a chance to question Manafort and Trump’s son Donald Jr. about a meeting they had with Russians in June of 2016.
“We need documents. We need to be prepared. But the good news is it’s being done on a bi-partisan basis. And we’re trying to get a cooperative arrangement with them to find a time when they can come and tell us a story.”
Durbin initially told WLS that the committee issued subpoenas to both Manfort and Donald Trump Jr. but his office later said he had misspoken, and that only Manafort was subpoenaed.
The Associated Press reports that on Tuesday morning, Manafort provided the committee with contemporaneous notes from the June Trump Tower meeting last year that has invited congressional scrutiny, according to a person familiar with the investigation who demanded anonymity to discuss the private workings of the investigation.
Manafort, Donald Trump Jr., and Trump son-in-law JaredKushner have faced scrutiny about attending the meeting because it was described in emails to Trump Jr. as part of a Russian government effort to aid Trump’s presidential campaign. Kushner returned to Capitol Hill for a second day of private meetings, this time for a closed-door conversation with lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee.
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