House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) is asking Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) to release the transcripts of all interviews investigators conducted throughout the course of its incomplete and prematurely shuttered Russia investigation.
... Schiff ... wrote to the committee's chairman ... two weeks ago requesting that the dozens of transcripts be released, saying they could shed "additional light on the issues of collusion and obstruction of justice."
Schiff said Thursday he had not received a reply to his request ...
In his letter, Schiff also raised concerns that some witnesses “may have testified untruthfully” before the committee, and that special counsel Robert Mueller and his team “should consider whether perjury charges are warranted.”
"Certainly the testimony of Don Jr., Erik Prince, Roger Stone and others is inconsistent with the public reports of meetings, conversations and other facts that have now been established," Schiff said in an interview with NBC News. "And so if those public reports are accurate, then clearly they were not telling the truth."
Republicans unilaterally ended the committee's probe in March and released a report in April that exonerated the president and contradicted the intelligence community's assessment that Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump to win.
Democrats had tried to include full transcripts of more than 60 witness interviews in their rebuttal report released at the same time, but Schiff said Republicans voted to block them before making it public — despite several Republicans having said publicly they supported doing so.
“Apparently the public will have to wait until the majority changes to see what kind of investigation the majority was doing,” Schiff said in the interview. “I think probably the reason why the Republicans decided to renege on their commitment is, the transcripts reveal among other things how often the majority acted as defense lawyers for the president rather than true investigators. And I think they’re embarrassed by that.”
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Democrats are pressing ahead with their own investigation and seeking cooperation from other witnesses, though they lack the ability to subpoena witnesses and other documents to do the kind of thorough probe they said Republicans refused to conduct.
Top Democrat on House Intel Committee seeks release of all Russia probe interviews (NBC News)