Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is eager to release transcripts of his committee's interviews with attendees of the June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower.
Grassley first announced plans to release the transcripts in January, one day after two committee Democrats urged him to share them with special counsel Robert Mueller. Three months later, Grassley told POLITICO that the transcripts "ought to be getting out" following some redactions, describing it as the next step in the committee's Russia oversight work.
"I don’t understand the process of redaction, I’m not an authority in that, and I think you have to have people who are an authority in it," Grassley said in a Tuesday interview. "But we ought to get the redactions done and get them out."
The committee interviewed Donald Trump Jr. and received a written response to questions from Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Other attendees of the Trump Tower meeting who sat for closed-door interviews, transcripts of which the Judiciary Committee aims to release, are Russian real estate executive Ike Kaveladze, Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, music promoter Rob Goldstone and translator Anatoli Samochorno. [Jared] Kushner and [Paul] Manafort did not participate in interviews with the committee.
Grassley says he wants to release transcripts tied to 2016 Trump Tower meeting (Politico)