House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

January 3, 2019: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) becomes committee chairman as Democrats, having won 235 seats to Republicans' 199 in the 2018 midterm elections, take control of the House.

April 27, 2018: Republicans release their final report on the committee's incomplete Russia investigation and conclude there is no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Democrats on the committee refer back to their Minority Views report released on March 26, 2018 in response, and Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) slams the GOP for choosing "not to seriously investigate — or even see, when in plain sight — evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia."

March 22, 2018: The committee majority votes to shut down the Russia investigation and begin the process of having its final report declassified. A Summary Table of Findings reveals Republican lawmakers took witnesses on their word, concluding while there were multiple meetings between Trump associates and Russians, there was no collusion or cooperation. 

March 12, 2018: Rep. Mike Conaway (R-CA) – without notifying or consulting committee Democrats – announces he is ending the Russia investigation. GOP members release a one-page summary of the committee's draft report which says among its official findings is "[c]oncurrence with the Intelligence Community Assessment’s judgments, except with respect to Putin’s supposed preference for candidate Trump" which stands in direct contrast with the intelligence community's assessment of Russian interference. The majority posts its Russia investigation public documents online.

November 2, 2017: Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page testifies before the House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors. Four days later, on Monday, November 6, 2017, the committee releases a full transcript of Page's testimony. Many of Page's statements contradict his own previous assertions regarding contact with Russian officials and reveal that several members of the Trump campaign also knew about Page's travel and interactions. 

November 1, 2017: Facebook's general counsel Colin Stretch, Twitter's acting general counsel Sean Edgett, and Google's senior vice president and general counsel Kent Walker testify openly before the full committee in the last of three appearances on Capitol Hill in two days. At the same time, the Democrats on the House Intel committee release some of the divisive and inflammatory ads and posts and related metadata the tech companies have turned over to investigators. 

October 24, 2017: House Intelligence Committee investigators meet with Michael Cohen, Trump's personal attorney, and Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign's digital director, separately and behind closed doors but on the same day.

September 26, 2017: Roger Stone meets with Committee investigators behind closed doors. Prior to his appearance, Stone puts an opening statement online saying he has not done anything illegal and deeply resents any allegation he would collude with Russia. After the approximately three-hour session, Stone holds a press conference and says President Trump should fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller because he believes Mueller has a conflict of interest. Stone also says his entire exchange with the Committee was professional and fair, but admits he was unwilling to identify the intermediary who connected him to Wikileaks' Julian Assange, claiming the person was an off-the-record journalist. Representative Schiff says the Committee may have to subpoena Stone if he is not more forthcoming with information pertaining to the alleged intermediary. 

September 13, 2017: CNN reveals President Obama’s former national security advisor Susan Rice told investigators she requested an unmasking of the names of senior Trump officials because she wanted to know why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates visited New York on December 15, 2016. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan traveled to the United States without informing the Obama administration, a breach of diplomatic protocol, and met with high-level members of Trump’s transition team, including Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, and Steve Bannon. CNN says the group met for three hours and discussed a wide range of issues, which allegedly did not include setting up a backchannel line of communications between the incoming Trump administration and Russia.

However, the New York meeting did closely precede a secret January meeting in the Seychelles Islands set up by the UAE and attended by Erik Prince, a Trump ally, and an associate of Vladimir Putin’s.

July 25, 2017: Jared Kushner answers questions from members of the House Intelligence Committee for nearly three hours behind closed doors. Representative Mike Conaway (R-TX) says Kushner is “straightforward and forthcoming.” Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) calls the session productive and notes Kushner and his lawyer are open to coming back for additional questioning.

July 14, 2017: Brad Parscale, Digital, Social & Media Advisor for the Donald J. Trump Presidential Campaign, tweets that he will testify before the House Intelligence Committee later this month as requested.  Other expected interviewees include Michael Caputo, Paul Manafort, Susan Rice, and Roger Stone. The committee also is seeking to speak with Jared Kushner and has subpoenaed Michael Flynn and Michael Cohen.

June 29, 2017: Republicans and Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee announce they are working together to find out if the White House has any recordings or other documentation of President Trump’s meetings with fired FBI Director James Comey. This comes after tweets from the President referencing the existence of such recordings followed by tweets indicating that he has no such evidence. After the Administration contended the President’s June 22nd tweets constituted a sufficient response to the Committee’s inquiry, Reps. Conaway and Schiff issued a joint statement saying they disagree and would subpoena the White House if necessary.

June 21, 2017: Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testifies before the committee on what US intelligence knew about Russian cyber attacks on US election systems prior to November 2016.  He faces tough questions about why the Obama Administration didn’t tell the public about Russia’s interference until October 2016.  (VIDEO)

May 23, 2017: Former CIA Director John Brennan testifies before the Committee and firmly states he has no doubt Russia interfered in the 2016 election. He says he has concerns about some contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russians that took place during that time. (VIDEO)

May 4, 2017:  Representatives Conaway and Schiff hold a joint press conference to announce they had a successful classified hearing with fired FBI Director James Comey and current National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers.